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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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WiFi keeps dropping out, T2/3/4 dropouts

WiFi keeps dropping out very frequently and for quite a while. Happens maybe every 10 minutes, 3 different engineers have come round to attempt to fix the problem and to no avail.Ive seen quite a few people have success posting their network log here...

Resolved! Broadband 5G not compatible with wifi door camera?

I have a smartlife wifi camera and set it up fine some months ago with my V hub 3.0    About 3 weeks ago the picture ceased while I was away. Trying to reset it now its saying I have 5G wifi which is incompatible.  I seem to recall my wifi was 2.4 G ...

JohnHemel by On our wavelength
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Black pod reducing speed

Hello I have gig1 and trying to achieve higher speeds on my console and phone upstairs in my room our hub 5 is in the living room, today our first black wifi pod arrived and I’ve installed it on my bedside table and it’s not seeming to bring the spee...

Tyler2k1 by Tuning in
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Disgusting customer service

What a terrible disgusting company. Nothing ever resolved, Cowards managers hiding behind the poor telephone agents. Been promised numerous calls . Never received any . Continueous  intermittent broadband and WiFi issues, up to 200 disconnects aday. ...

No internet since last night, hub 5x flashing red

Hi all, wondering if anyone else can help me with what's happening. I have had no internet since last night around midnight, it's now 6pm. I have a hub 5x. It is showing a red light that is flashing slowly. I have reset it, rebooted it, factory reset...

Vigi by Just joined
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Disabling the Privacy Separator Function

I am having trouble wirelessly connecting my computer to my printer and I’ve been told that the solution is to disable the privacy separator function. I have the Virgin Hub 5.Can anyone help with this please? I’ve tried checking the router settings a...

San1234 by Just joined
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Not providing ip adress for my Network

Update. As expected between 4 pm and 01Am I had no broadband. Thats five days when I pay over£85 a month for service I don't get VM security team need to look for an internal threat. I was told by support VM won't investigate their support team unles...

Kaldeep by Tuning in
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Resolved! WiFi Pods Request

I'm getting less than 20mb in areas of my house, as shown in the Virgin Media Connect app, and on samsknows real speed, I've tried different channels, splitting the wifi to 2.4 and 5ghz, and reposition the router, all to no avail.I'm unable to order ...

ennbee by Joining in
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