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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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My VM experience so far as a new customer

Hi everyone. Yes, this is a long post, if you don't like it then please do not read any further.We are new to VM and signed up due to being out of contract with BT. VM has recently installed new fibre cables in our area with the UK-wide expansion rol...

VM420 by Joining in
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No internet

Regularly no internet tonight 2 hours lights variable mainly white flashing. Restarted 2 hours ago can’t contact virgin as no internet and I rely on WiFi calling. Regular occurrence and intermittently rights itself but not today

Range extenders

I’m looking to buy a range extender for my WiFi. I currently have the 1K Virgin media package (UK) and would like to make the most of it. I’m planning to have at least 1 Ethernet connection.There is a so many options and I’m not sure what to go for. ...

teeger by Joining in
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Damaged cable

I’ve damaged the virgin media wire in the garden. Internet still working but can see the inner part of the wire and suspect it will need replacing. Please can someone from virgin get back to me about this. Thank you. 

roseyge by Joining in
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VM Hub 4 WiFi keeps dropping out

Most of this evening I have had problems with my wifi. It connects then drops over and over again. I've tried accessing 192.168.0.1 but that doesn't always work as when I log in I'm just shown a whitepage. I've gone through VM help of testing the hub...

202104 by Joining in
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Don't get in Maidenhead

Consistent issues, can't even browse the internet. Don't join virgin and we'll be lookign to cancel and for Virgin to keep their word about providing a service and let us disconnect early for free. Absolutely shocking, constant latency issues, ping, ...

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OllyWz by Joining in
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wifi pod making noise

my virgin Wi-Fi pod is permanently making a fan whirring noise and is warm to touch. is this normal ?Also could some one tell me am i suppose to turn the pod off every night and turn back on in the morning when i need the pod to work for me or can i ...

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New Router installed: WiFi Pod not working

Good day all,I've got a new Virgin Hub 3 installed at home (as previous one was faulty) but the WiFi Pod does not seem to reconnect automatically.I've seen that some kind souls in the community can sort this one out  Is there any chance I can get som...

RoyKato by Tuning in
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Resolved! Hub to router connection speeds

Hello again all. Hopefully someone on here can help me solve this mystery.I have Gig1 connection. I recently ran speed tests on my Hub 4, which was in modem mode connected to my Archer C80 router by ethernet, which in turn was connected to my streami...

Dosser62 by Dialled in
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