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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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Red flashing light

Hi, around 9pm on Thursday evening our Wi-Fi stopped working. Since then we have had intermittent Wi-Fi. It’s mainly not working but does occasionally come back for a few minutes. I’ve reported it to VM and have an engineer booked for Monday 4pm-7pm,...

House58 by Joining in
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Resolved! Red light on Virgin hub 3

HiMy virgin hub 3.0 status light is red but is working otherwise as i would expect. Ive rebooted it many times but without change. Ive disconnected and reconnected the power and signal cables also without change. According to advice this may mean tha...

new white pods wont connect to hub 5

I Really hope someone can help. we added a third pud after a year of 2 pods working perfectly and the 3rd pod would work for one day perfectly. then stop. so they send a new pod. same thing. new pod works for one day and then stops.crurrently they ar...

69hicks by Joining in
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Netgear Booster

Hi,I hope someone can help me with a similar problem, I have the Hub 5 and I have Netgear boosters, unfortunately, the Netgear boosters no longer work since I got the Hub 5 and I thought it would be fairly simple to pair them with the Hub 5, but I'm ...

teamgers by On our wavelength
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VM Skyglass

I have VM broadband only and a Skyglass TV which I’ve connected and can use all the apps but there’s no sky TV channels.do I need a different VM service other than just broadband?

No internet AGAIN

Virgin broadband  must be the most unreliable broadband ive ever ever had no real help support 3 months ago it went down for 10 days never got refund for that time and now gone off for another 2 days can i cancel my contract if they dont supply what ...

Kelmondo by Tuning in
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BQM latency spikes

Hi forum, I'm suffering from intermittent latency spikes as you can see from the BQM link. This has been going on for a while and is quite frustrating. I have recently reset the router (10 seconds on the rest button) to try and fix, but the problem s...

Blink sync module not connecting to internet

Got a blink doorbell with sync module and its not connecting to the internet.Tried turning off 5.0hz, doing a guest network etc.Is the virgin 3.0 router really that bad. Is it best just return the doorbell. If so what video doorbells work with Virgin...