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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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Cannot connect to my HP Envy 4527 printer via wifi

My printer is connected to my home network via wifi. It's been working fine, but suddenly it's impossible for any of the devices on the network to access it.The printer itself is definitely connected to the VM hub, and the printer's status screen say...

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Resolved! Wi Fi Pod connection

HiCan you connect a ethernet cable from a  Wi Fi Pod and then to, say, a TV360 box? I notice there is a socket at the bottom of the podkind regards  John

Different region - Disney Plus accessing

I've been locked out of my Disney plus app because apparently I'm in a country or region were Disney isn't available. This only happened the other day it's saying code error 73 and will not let me log back into it on my TV but will on my phone but on...

Hub 5 DHCP giving wrong addresses to wired device

Hello,Having just finished cabling my house and moving over to Virgin Media, I was looking forward to connecting various devices in various rooms via wired ethernet. To my horror, all the devices (TVs, Blu-Ray players, Xbox One) are receiving an IP a...

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Latency spikes and disconnect

Sometimes I have latency spikes and periodic disconnects: But some days are ok:  (beside external monitoring connection is not used)I'm currently using G.Fast from BT as main connection, but we have multiple people depending on good internet so I'm t...

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ISanych by Joining in
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Port Forwarding on Hub 3 - cannot add new rules

I have a hub 3 and it has worked fine for a good couple of years. I needed to add a port forwarding rule but every time I try to add a rule I get a message that says rule already exists. I also have a couple of forwarding rules that I don't need anym...

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 ...

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Hub

Hi there,my hub is only showing a constant red light, not a white as before, despite my checking cables restarting it from unit and at the wall.I still have excellent internet connection just not the white light.please advise thanks V

vander18 by On our wavelength
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