Networking and WiFi
For queries with home networking and all things WiFi
cancel
Showing results for 
Search instead for 
Did you mean: 

Forum Posts

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...

WiFi House Attenuation.png
Sephiroth by Alessandro Volta
  • 35358 Views
  • 0 replies
  • 59 kudos

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...

Wifi Spectrum Bad.png Wifi Spectrum Good.png

Repeated intermittent outages - can I leave?

We recently signed up to Virgin (over 14 days ago, annoyingly), and since we have been using it we have had repeated outages, at least once every couple of days. we've checked the service in the area, and when we can get the checker to work it usuall...

j_h500 by Joining in
  • 283 Views
  • 5 replies
  • 0 kudos

Connection Drops - Hub 5

Hi All I have had VM for a while but have recently changed to using it as my main connection. I had my hub4 swapped for a 5 and since I have set it all live I have been seeing connection drops at least a few times a week, usually few times a day. It ...

pwater1 by Joining in
  • 154 Views
  • 1 replies
  • 0 kudos

Will Hub5 wifi calling work with any mobile provider

I currently have O2 as my mobile provider but might change in a few months. Currently my phone uses my Hub to provide wifi calling when the signal requires and I wondered will that still be available if I change from O2 to another mobile provider? 

jgnotts by Superfast
  • 98 Views
  • 0 replies
  • 0 kudos

Hub 5 and Tenda WiFi Mesh

Long story but will try and keep it brief.I used to have a Hub 3 and was getting very poor WiFi distribution throughout the house. Had an Engineer visit and he recommended a Mesh System to bounce the Wifi signal around the house. I purchased a Tenda ...

Hexigan by Joining in
  • 1367 Views
  • 25 replies
  • 0 kudos

VM connect app can’t find Hub 5

Hi I have had the hub 5 for ages now but for some reason my phone (android) can not find my hub. I have uninstalled and re installed the app and re booted the rooter but still nothing, please help! Thanks xx  

Rachy21 by Just joined
  • 233 Views
  • 3 replies
  • 0 kudos

Permanent red light on hub3

Hiplease can a virgin member of the team reach out to help . I have a permanent red light on my hub. Multiple reboots and now a factory reset has not resolved the issue.internet is working right now but have had some issues with wifi over the last fe...

markd by Tuning in
  • 160 Views
  • 1 replies
  • 0 kudos

Solid Red Light

For the last 2 days on our Hub we have a solid red light, the wifi is working fine. It was a bit hit and miss earlier in the week but work was being done in the area.After doing to reboot suggestions and the same issue I called Virgin via 150 and tal...

Dan-C06 by Joining in
  • 118 Views
  • 1 replies
  • 0 kudos

Wi-Fi Pods

Thought I would share my recent experience with you and ask if anyone has recently received a BLACK Wi-Fi pod because I have got to the point where I am struggling to believe what Virgin Media says.Swapped over to a volt package, new router installed...

Martin43 by Joining in
  • 268 Views
  • 4 replies
  • 0 kudos

Red power light

So my hub 3 that I’ve had since 2019 and now the red light is staying on I’ve called in but was told to wait for 24 hrs as my connection is dropping I go away on holiday soon and need it sorting everything says the rooter is overheating but I need it...

image.jpg