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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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Broadband dropping out

My broadband has been continuously dropping out and then reconnecting over the last few weeks.  It is then sometimes off for a longer period of time, as I work from home it’s becoming a pain.  I have rebooted it many times 

lynnh by Joining in
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Red light

After two very unhelpful telephone calls to Virgin Media customer services, I have now had to resort to this forum in order to get closure on the red light issue with our hub 3.0.The hub has been permanently showing a solid red light for the past 2 w...

Broadband drop-outs

Connection is terrible, wired Broadband keeps dropping,I've factory re-set the modem..no difference. This has been going on for weeks now. VM tech says everything is fine

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Resolved! PS4 speed issue with Hub 3.0

Hi, I recently moved to Virgin and everything is going well so far except the PS4. I tried connecting with Ethernet, I get around 150 mbp download and 3 mbp upload. Same with wireless. I keep lagging a lot and I need help with this.Any help will be a...

AHuss786 by Tuning in
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Unable to log into HUB5 - constant issues!

Hi All.for a while now I am still unable to log into Hub5 using different browsers or mobile phones. I had this issue previously but it somehow fixed itself. Hub was rebooted by VM Call center operator about 3 weeks ago and since then I can not acces...

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Shocking access - internet issues

For the passed couple of weeks, our internet has been hit or miss if it wants to work. We had an email to confirm we needed an engineer to come out - we booked an appointment, only for it to be cancelled 4 hours later saying to was Virgin's fault and...

HB51 by Joining in
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High T3 Time outs

Hub 5 with 1gig.Whilst checking why my laptop wasn't showing as connected on the Hub 5 web page, I noticed that between 24-07-2024 02:45:43 - 24-07-2024 02:45:43 on the network logs I had over 1000 T3 timeouts on channels 2-3-4.  3.0 Upstream channel...

preston46 by On our wavelength
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Intermittent Internet, droppouts, signal strength issues

Hiya,That last 10 days I've had internet issues and dropouts. Streaming TV/Film pauses, games disconnect, discord lags and drops, websites delay.I am ethernet checking.Modem mode.Wired household.Checking the router section I can see these types of is...

farske by On our wavelength
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Smart heating control issues

Anyone got issues with their smart heating controls? The wall units hold the wifi but the app on my phone keeps losing connection and error messages appear on my phone screen -  anyone experienced similar? TIA. 

Holt13 by Tuning in
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Virgin DNS servers not resolving correctly - cache

Having moved the hosting of a website two days ago, I am finding that when trying to visit the page using any devices on my home wifi Virgin Media Broadband network, I get the error: DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAINIf I change the DNS servers to those of ...

RJD2 by Joining in
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