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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 pod frustration

I’ve had the 1g up/down VM fiber since November 2023 and on the whole it’s been great.However, on the top floor of my house (3 floors), the WiFi just drops off completely a lot of the time, no real drop in speed as such, it just doesn’t reach the roo...

WiFi drops out every 2 weeks - modem mode

Every two weeks - usually a Tuesday morning at about 3am - I lose connection to my Virgin WiFi. As I run my home WiFi on Modem Mode, it means I need to spend approx 30 mins resetting the Hub5 and then re-establishing connection across my other WiFi p...

Geoff77 by Just joined
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Packet loss affecting Upstream

Hi,Following a couple of recent total loss of service events, I am now seeing some packet loss at times, which is affecting upstream bandwidth. It correlates to Upstream channels operating at 16QAM rather than 64QAM.A live BQM: https://www.thinkbroad...

Cannot order a third wi-fi pod as my account says I have 3

HiAround a year ago I returned the faulty Wifi Pod I had by giving it to the technician that was visiting regarding another fault. He said he would get a replacement pod sent out to me ASAP, but that either didn't happen or it never arrived. Ever sin...

HARQ by Joining in
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Hub issues red light

My router has had a solid red light hub 3 for over a year now! I’ve also been having issues with my WiFi dropping on a regular basis. I spoke numerously to virgin media a few times and every time the advice is different by the technical people mainly...

Mike2608 by Joining in
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Resolved! VM Connect Can’t Find Hub 3

Hi, can anybody help with sorting out how to get the VM Connect app to find my Hub 3? I’ve tried the advice provided in previous posts - I’m connected to wi if, not in modem mode and reset using pin hole, but still it will not connect to the hub. Any...

KGS1 by Joining in
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Resolved! Smart support remote fix

Hi all, I'm a Gig1 customer and I received an SMS and email from Virgin Media this morning with the below message. Just wondering if anyone can tell me anything further about what the issue was and what fix was applied.  I've not noticed any issues w...

chutuk by On our wavelength
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Computer not connecting to wifi

Upon turning my computer on today for some reason the pc wouldn't connect to ethernet, it would say unidentified network, when trying to use WiFi which is already unusable, it wouldn't connect that way either, it would just show my Internet with 0 ba...

revrevin by Joining in
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