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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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Hub 5 - Work VPN not working

Replaced our old Hub with a Hub 5 a few days ago, and all working fine apart from when trying to connect to my work VPN.Have tried all the usual suggestions, switching all settings off in Essential Security, switched off the router firewall, reboots,...

Internet to garden office via coaxial cable

Hello all. I wonder if you can help me?I have virgin media internet at tv etc in the house. I have a garden office  approx 30m away from the main house.  Currently I use TP Link Powerline adapters / WiFi access point to use the internet in the office...

Hub 4 problem?

Hi I've been on Gig1 for past three years with a hub 4. It says on Sam Knows router receiving 1143 however my devices including iPad say receiving 350. When I was on 650 plan I was getting 500? Something is wrong somewhere. I was promised a Hub 5 age...

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Virgin Media DNS not resolving domain names

Hello! I’m having issues connecting to websites hosted on a particular server if using the VM network. VM’s DNS does not resolve the domain to the correct IP. Sites load fine if I connect using my 5G connection but not via VM, Chrome returns the erro...

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Laptop can no longer see Hub 5

Our Lenovo laptop was working with Hub5 fine yesterday. Today it can't see the hub. It can see various other networks, and will hotspot from my phone. But not our hub. All my other devices - two other laptops, Xbox and phones can all connect to the h...