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So for the past week or so my Virgin Superhub 3.0 has been a pain in the backside and driving us lot here up the wall. Basically the WiFi keeps disconnecting then re-connecting every 20 seconds or so. If I look on my phone it keeps coming up "Connecting to Silverdale network" then off again then abit later back off. I even get lag abit on the hard wired PC but it mainly kept working.
The WiFi problems seem to mainly start after early evening so I played around with the router WiFi channel settings moving them around 1-6-11 and checking with with a WiFi App on my phone but it's still the same. I've also opted out the WiFi hotspot in my Virgin profile but it's still the same.
A couple of things confused me the other day, when I connected to my router via my PC yesterday 192.168.0.1 my Virgin router home login page changed logo from a Virgin symbol to a picture of some woman in her lving room with the kids looking at the router as the side of the TV then by magic it reverted back to the old Virgin logo later that night.
Another thing that I couldn't figure out was homeplugs. I run 3 homeplugs and last night non of them would work no matter how much I tried resetting them they wouldn't find each other then when they did they kept disconnecting like the WiFi but the main hard wired PC kept working fine which wrecked my head.
I decided to look at who's using what on the WiFi channels in my area. Someone has a printer that's open but what's more confusing is, my MAC address.
When I looked at iSSIDer I picked up my WiFi i.e lets say. "Silverdales Network" and the MAC address of my router as lets say 00:54:ea:67:ve:vb
but
there's another network called "Virgin Media" with the same MAC bar the first two digits/letters say like
78:54:ea:67:ve:vb
This "Virgin Media" signal showing on inSSIDer keeps dropping out then connecting back in were as "Silverdale Network" in inSSIDer doesn't it remains stable. I'm not sure what this is. Is this the 5g part of my WiFi signal ? and whats it doing with the near same MAC addy as my router ?.
If anyone can explain the MAC address's and tips that would be great. I looked at my SNR downstream and its about 34.9 to 35.7
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As I typed my hard wired PC disconnected then reconnected
The WiFi problems seem to mainly start after early evening so I played around with the router WiFi channel settings moving them around 1-6-11 and checking with with a WiFi App on my phone but it's still the same. I've also opted out the WiFi hotspot in my Virgin profile but it's still the same.
A couple of things confused me the other day, when I connected to my router via my PC yesterday 192.168.0.1 my Virgin router home login page changed logo from a Virgin symbol to a picture of some woman in her lving room with the kids looking at the router as the side of the TV then by magic it reverted back to the old Virgin logo later that night.
Another thing that I couldn't figure out was homeplugs. I run 3 homeplugs and last night non of them would work no matter how much I tried resetting them they wouldn't find each other then when they did they kept disconnecting like the WiFi but the main hard wired PC kept working fine which wrecked my head.
I decided to look at who's using what on the WiFi channels in my area. Someone has a printer that's open but what's more confusing is, my MAC address.
When I looked at iSSIDer I picked up my WiFi i.e lets say. "Silverdales Network" and the MAC address of my router as lets say 00:54:ea:67:ve:vb
but
there's another network called "Virgin Media" with the same MAC bar the first two digits/letters say like
78:54:ea:67:ve:vb
This "Virgin Media" signal showing on inSSIDer keeps dropping out then connecting back in were as "Silverdale Network" in inSSIDer doesn't it remains stable. I'm not sure what this is. Is this the 5g part of my WiFi signal ? and whats it doing with the near same MAC addy as my router ?.
If anyone can explain the MAC address's and tips that would be great. I looked at my SNR downstream and its about 34.9 to 35.7
......
As I typed my hard wired PC disconnected then reconnected
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