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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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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 ...

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Resolved! New wall socket needed

Hi,I need a new wall socket installed in the middle of the house so that the wifi signal can be evenly distributed. My current one is not strong enough to reach my room.Can I book a technician asap please?Thank you

Meelo24 by Joining in
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FTTC to FTTP

Hi allAfter some advice if possible.I am currently living in a house share. The current service provider is virgin media.The landlord paid for a fibre connection but due to the cabling from the house to the exchange, only ever received a connection s...

Slow WiFi in some rooms

I have been having problems in a couple of rooms with my WiFi signal being weak. I have used the VM Connect app to check the speed in each room. The result is ' poor ' in two out of five rooms , 'Fair' in two and 'Great' in one.The App says about usi...

langs57 by Joining in
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Hub 5 Rebooting Every Week

Hi,Ive received a hub 5 due to my previous hub 4 failing. It has been working well but for some reason it keeps rebooting between 2-3am every Tuesday morning. So far its happened twice in the last 2 weeks. I have called CS multiple times but I just g...

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avi68 by Superfast
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Intermittent Blocking of IMAP Ports for Email Server

I'm experiencing intermittent issues connecting to my hosted email server while on Virgin Media’s network. This issue affects my ability to access email on both my Mac and iPhone when connected to Virgin. The problem seems specific to IMAP ports (993...

tony22 by On our wavelength
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Smart devices keep going offline

amera outside my property keep going offline I never had a issue when I was with sky but since being with virgin which might I add is ment to be tree than sky for connectivity on wifi I want to order wifi pod but the vm connect app doesn’t give me th...

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Resolved! 1gb Home Broadband Router

We have a brand-new VirginMedia 1gb router.I prefer to have 2.4GHz and 5GHz showing as two separate WiFi's on my home networks.To this end, under Advanced Settings/Wireless/Wireless Signal, I've disabled Channel Optimisation, and clicked on 'apply ch...