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Hi everyone. This is my first post to the LTT forum, so not sure if this is going to help. I'm struggling to set-up port forwarding for a server for Wreckfest. I have completed the necessary steps on the Hub web page, with the correct local and external port ranges, and protocols. I have ensured everything is enabled, and have tried disabling firewalls, and setting up exceptions for the ports etc. However, each time I test the ports (Using web based port checkers, such as: https://www.yougetsignal.com/tools/open-ports/ and using the command console with "Netstat -ab" to see "listening") it doesn't show that the ports are open. I'm using the Hub 3.0 from Virgin Media, and am based in the UK. Am I missing anything, or is there anything you guys can suggest? TYIA
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My ISP is the amazing Virgin Media, I pay £80 a month for 200mbps. I currently have the Virgin Media superhub 2. I am experiencing a lot of inconsistency with wired and terrible blackspots for wifi. I get around 100mbps on a good day, at peak times around 30mbps. I understand nothing can be done in regards to the throttling, however to extend my wifi and make my wired connections more consistent I wish to convert the superhub 2 into a modem and get a good router/ AP. I experience a lot of lag whilst playing games, my ping will go from 30 to 500 in seconds. My uploads will gradually drop off from 5mbps to 0.1 whilst streaming. My budget would be around £300. Can anyone advise? Thanks in advance
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just got the super hub 3 from virgin media uk and im having an extension to my house and its now so big wifi signals are rubbish on the other end of the house so i got a free superhub 3. I want to use the super hub 2 as an access point What settings should i change to do this? i done some and it works like for example now but every so often it lags, my phone and laptop says no internet access till 5 minutes later when i get access again spontaneously. (using power line adapters with ethernet to connect the 2 routers together). Thanks
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Twitter thread about it: https://twitter.com/virginmedia/status/1162756227132198914 Just thought I'd post this here for any UK people that use Virgin Media. Also a massive GDPR violation so... file complaints away?
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Hi, I have 2 ethernet cables connected to router, one is a PC, the other is the powerline adaptor. I have noticed that if the power line adaptor is connected, the pc connected directly to the router drops constantly, like twice per minute. Which makes any online game completely unplayable. The connection simply drops and comes back online, if I play overwatch I barely get past the menu because it disconnects me and goes to login screen, if I’m playing Gwent, I get the reconnecting pop up window every 20 seconds for half a second though I can keep playing. Besides replacing the powerline adaptor do you think if I remove the power pins on the ethernet cable jack or simply cut the wires that usually provide POE it will make this work as there could be some interference, or am I completely wrong? I have reset the router, changed ethernet cable, and which physical port the ethernet cable it attached to, with no effect, and the problem only happens when the powerline adaptor is on and connected by ethernet to the router. Thanks in advance
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How to expand your virgin media WiFi network OK so i noticed that over the last few days their was little to no help for me when looking online for a solution to growing my WiFi signal in my house with a virgin media super-hub 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0. Being from the UK not a lot of people are online sharing their solutions to what they found worked for them so i want to share what i know. So the Virgin Media super-hub is actually the same as any other old router and if you want to extend your WiFi signal their is a cheap and effective fix. Their are several devices that can do different things for you. Device 1: £25 (max) - https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B004UBU8IE/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 This device does a couple of things that will most likely accommodate your every need, the mode i used when setting it up seems to be the best solution for my problem witch was extending my WiFi connection to a new part of my house. I routed an Ethernet cable through the outside of my house and then back in through a window. The Ethernet cable comes from my virgin media super-hub right into the back of this device. It will convert your Ethernet connection into a WiFi connection by default. You will have to login to their settings menu and set your username / password for your WiFi connection in that part of the house. You can name it the same thing and use the same password to have your device just switch between them as one network. Another way you can use this is by just plugging it into the wall and by going through the guide that comes in the box set it to basically grab your WiFi network and then repeat it just so that you can get a better connection in different parts of your residence. This is a less reliable connection and speeds vary a lot more using this method especially ping to certain servers especially if you are a gamer you don't want to be using it this way, use the first method at least if not just a hard wire into the back of your PC. I would only recommend using the second method to people who have a crappy connection upstairs maybe and want to just hide this away in a closet somewhere and don't want to go through the trouble of routing a cable through your house. DONT GET SCAMMED BY THE EXPENSIVE THINGS A lot of the suggestions online for what i should of bought for my problem with not knowing how the super-hub acted and how virgin felt about me having more than one WiFi signal in my residence were very very high priced. Some of the products included these two wall plugs where one had an Ethernet connection from the hub to itself and then it used the power lines to deliver connection to the other plug and the plug then gave out a WiFi signal. The problem i found with these, not only are they upward of £80 on Amazon the connection reliability for them is not 100% and it is not a very big range it extends by. Ping suffers with this method a bit too for you gamers again. The only people i can imagine wanting to use this is people who just don't want ugly wires running through their living space but id still be hesitant to recommend these. Sorry for rambling a bit I'm a bit stoned and only just got this stuff to work and wanted to get a topic on the internet to help people googling this in the future. Thanks if you read it all the way to the end and i hope this helps. @ me if you need any help.
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Hi All, I just wanted to see if anyone here has experience with Google WiFi or other mesh networking in the UK. The reason I ask this for UK specifically is that I use Sky Q with Virgin's Super Hub 3. I know I can put the super hub into modem mode and then use the google WiFi hub as a router connecting it to 2 other hubs. The issue I have is that I am aware that Sky Q boxes for TV (Sky Q 2TB & Sky Mini) create their own mesh network and communicate together. Will this cause any problems with connecting or any interference issues? Any help / advice would be appreciated! Thanks.
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Greetings all, this is going to be a quite a long one, so bare with me. Firstly, I have just had a large "man cave / studio" built in the back garden, with a dedicated wall ethernet port like you would see in offices. This goes straight through to the router in the house about 8-10m total cable length. The router in the house is situated as center as possible, and has ethernet ports running to my BEDROOM upstairs, and my brother's BEDROOM as well. So 3 ports in total are occupied on the router. (1 or 2 spare) Out my studio, I connected all devices via ethernet, my Smart TV, and my PS4 using a network switch, but due to the Wi-Fi signal being weak out there due to thick walls (insulated heavily), I bought a TP-Link Travel Router which i was advised would be a smarter option over buying a seperate router. So the way i set it up was the Network switch would be plugged directly into the Wall Ethernet, which then had the ps4, smart tv and the TP-Link router (Set up as an access point) in it. HOWEVER, since setting this up, the main house network has been absolutely ghastly, like things will not load at all, even on my ethernet connected PC, same for my brother. yet on my dedicated SSID Wifi channels and ethernet connected devices in the studio, everything is hunky dory and fine, getting the max speeds expected with said device. Is it possible I have wired something up incorrectly, or am i doing this in an inefficient manner thus affecting the main Wifi-channels in the house. Bandwith shouldn't be a factor as we have the fasted Virgin Media bundle on offer, with 300mbps Download (however more like 200) and 20 upload consistent. Ive also attached a shitty diagram of the setup, which will likely confuse things more than help TL;DR - Since adding an access point outside with seperate wifi SSIDs, the main SSIDs inside the house, and wired connections in the house have suffered with massive loss of speed. have i set it up wrong?
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I've been on Virgin media's fastest broadband package for some time now and I'm fed up of their poor service and over utilisation problems that exist. Im currently paying for 152Mb down and 12Mb up. In the early morning (when few people in the area are using the Internet) I get a very reasonable 160Mb down and 11Mb up but in the evening, speeds drop to less than 5Mbs both down and up. I'm using a wired Cat6 Ethernet cable so the Wifi is not the problem. I contacted Virgin Media a few months ago and they acknowledge the issue of over-utilisation in my area. However, they keep delaying the review date and it's getting on my nerves. Who would you recommend I switch to? I've been looking at Zen Internet specifically because of their excellent support and also Plusnet because they seem 'OK' Any suggestions? Cheers.
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Virgin officially announced a few days ago that everyone on it's network would be getting their speed boosted for free, and their new top package is 200mbps down and 12 up (which is the same as before on the upload side, and complimentary throttling included ). They're calling their top 'ultrafast' packages 'Vivid' and their lower packages 'SuperFibre'. This now means that their new lowest package is 70mbps down and 6mbps up. These changes have not been made official on their site, however many customers have received emails and letters about it. We were on the 100mb/s plan until we had a little 'chat' over the phone and they agreed to upgrade us to the 200mb plan for free as part of this new offering, however normal 100mb/s customers will be upgraded to 152mb/s. I like this move, I doubt it would be something that Comcast would want to do. Source: http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2015/09/29/virgin-media-vivid-200mbps/1
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Basically what's the difference between ADSL, DSL and cable and which one is the best? On my modem there's a big thick black cable with a 6db attenuator on the end which one is that?
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Virgin Media to spend £3 billion improving fibre network
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Virgin Media has today announced plans to spend £3 billion improving its fibre-optic broadband network, creating 6000 jobs in the process. These improvements will roll out over the next five years and is the largest investment in the UK’s broadband infrastructure made in the past decade. The investment is currently being referred to as ‘Project Lightning’, which will increase the network’s reach from 13 million to 17 million homes and businesses by the year 2020. Virgin Media will also be able to offer speeds of up to 152Mb to more customers. Virgin Media CEO, Tom Mockridge, has said that “Millions of homes and businesses will soon be able to benefit for the first time from broadband speeds at least twice as fast as those available from the other major providers. Consumers and business owners who want to make the switch to better broadband speeds now have an alternative: you can call on Virgin Media to ‘Cable My Street’.” However, rural areas with not many residents may not be able to generate enough ‘cable my street’ requests to become a priority, meaning some rural areas may continue to be stuck with slow speeds. Source : http://www.kitguru.net/channel/generaltech/matthew-wilson/virgin-media-to-spend-3-billion-improving-fibre-network/ -
Virgin Media has announced it is to spend £3 billion improving fibre network that will create 600 jobs in the process. The improvements will begin this year and be completed by the year 2020. This is the single biggest investment in broadband infrastructure in the UK for more than a decade. It is going to bring connectivity to 17 million homes and businesses in towns and cities where full and high speed cable coverage is lacking. Project Lightning will change lives and transform communities – giving people better access to education, health care, financial systems and employment – it will also have a huge positive impact on the UK as whole. Virgin Media says its £3 billion broadband investment will be worth £8 billion in terms of stimulating the UK economy, and will create 6,000 new jobs of which 1,000 will be apprenticeships. This project is an important step in making the UK an even more competitive country. When it comes to making the most of our increasingly connected lives, speed and capacity matters. Prime Minister David Cameron has welcomed the investment from Virgin Media and said: "It is a vote of confidence in our long-term economic plan to support business and create jobs by building a superfast nation backed by world-class infrastructure." it will will increase the network’s reach from 13 million to 17 million homes and businesses by the year 2020. Virgin Media will also be able to offer speeds of up to 152Mb to more customers. or the first time from broadband speeds at least twice as fast as those available from the other major providers. Consumers and business owners who want to make the switch to better broadband speeds now have an alternative sources: Kit guru: http://goo.gl/7wGYZ8 Virgin Blog: http://goo.gl/mycA7K
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I was wondering what router would be better out of ther7000 vs ac68u, I tried the r7000 and after a week or so I couldn't connect to the internet with it. (With Virgin media with the super hub in modem mode) Any suggestions? Thanks, GR412
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okay so today i received a letter from my broadband provider saying my bill rise by £4.39 per month... i already wasn't happy with this, they said the reason for this was the previous ( FREE ) upgrade to the network.. if its free why am i paying for it? this is for every virgin media customer I do believe.
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im currently on virgin media and my upload speed is terrible, only 300kbs, but my download being on 7mbs which is a massive differance, can anyone tell me a better provider in the uk for around the same price as what im paying now? (£40) or is there another way to increase my upload speed?