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UNDERSTANDING KEY ASPECTS OF WiFi

UNDERSTANDING KEY ASPECTS OF WiFi WiFi is a somewhat notorious, though essential commodity. In many cases, when its behaviour does not meet the user’s perception of the claims made by the ISP (e.g. Virgin Media), the blame is quickly heaped on the IS...

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Sephiroth by Alessandro Volta
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Getting a better Wireless Network Signal

Seeing so many posts about Good, Bad & ugly Wifi, I thought I would post some suggestions for people out there.   There are definitely good, midrange & poor routers with quite variable performance wifi.  Never expect a mass market product to be the b...

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Hub status data - understanding network log messages

N Warning: Long, dull, a bit technical. NHaving needed to repeat myself a few times, I thought I'd share my understanding of what you might find in a Hub 3's network log when things go wrong, and what it means.  First of all, this post is based on my...

Andrew-G by Alessandro Volta
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xgs-pon with own router...

Well...Wish I was advised of this during signup. Now cancelled BT which I was happily using (albeit without symmetrical 1Gbps upload), constant 0-8ms ping on games such as Fortnite or to Cloudflare DNS/Adguard DNS and a stable speed over to the "upgr...

Michael09 by On our wavelength
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Hub 5x

I've just signed up to the Gig2 service in a brand new XGS-PON area (only became live yesterday). I ordered at 7pm and a team came this morning to do the external work... Impressive thus far!However, I fear I may have ordered in haste as subsequent r...

Re-add work phone to network

Hi, a while back I stumbled across a list of devices on on broadband network and didn't recognise one so denied it access or some similar. Subsequently my work phone wasn't accessing emails at home. Put two and two together.....How do I re-add my wor...

BP70 by Joining in
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Virgin has gone downhill

My tale of woe with virgin.i am due to move house and organised a date of 18th October as we did not have a firm completion date. I then recieved an email stating that my install had been delayed to 24th October which was fine as we still have not mo...

holdski by Tuning in
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Resolved! 2.4GHz WiFi grinds to a halt / unusable

HelloI have an issue where my 2.4GHz WiFi connections grind to a halt and become unusable.Ethernet and 5GHz are fine, speedy in fact and have no issues.As far as I can tell the issue arises when our phones (iPhone 13 and 13 Pro) switch over to a 2.4 ...

Getting a white wifi pod with 1GB broadband

I’ve had an amazing exchange on X today.  Virgin wont send a white plug in pod because you have to be on 500 MB or less and I have 1GB.  Unfortunately the location where the pod is needed doesn’t have a table anywhere near so it sits on the carpet.  ...

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Furzec by Joining in
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Resolved! Noisy WiFi Pod

One of my WiFi pods makes a loud noise like a fan running is inside and it is about to take off.  The other one has never made this noise, any one else had this problem?

boxer by Dialled in
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Red flashing on hub

Hi I have no wifi AGAIN!  I’ve reset the hub and all I get is flashing red. The live chats and help are poor, waiting times are so long and all you get is a link sent to you telling you how to reset. I think I need a new hub this has happened twice i...

IPhone X connected to WIFI but no internet

Hi All,I'm experiencing the dreaded "WIFI connected but no internet" issue with my IPhone X.I can literally see hundreds of posts regarding this issue....I've tried all the suggested fixes but none have worked for me (WIFI on/off / aeroplane mode / f...

Guyhev by Joining in
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