Virgin router question?
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Recently swapped over to Virgin broadband and their router.
First thing I did was rename our Wi-Fi and change the password to something useable.
A couple of weeks back we needed a spare mobile phone so I found an old iPhone in the draw and tried to use that. It couldn’t find our network but could see the original virgin name.
Today I set up a ring doorbell and that was the same.
I had to set it up on the original network name and password that I’ve changed and everything else sees the new name and works fine.
What’s that all about?
First thing I did was rename our Wi-Fi and change the password to something useable.
A couple of weeks back we needed a spare mobile phone so I found an old iPhone in the draw and tried to use that. It couldn’t find our network but could see the original virgin name.
Today I set up a ring doorbell and that was the same.
I had to set it up on the original network name and password that I’ve changed and everything else sees the new name and works fine.
What’s that all about?
onetwothreefour said:
I never dig into the settings but most wi-fi routers now in effect are two running simultaneously- one at 2.4GHz and one at 5Ghz. It is possible you only changed the settings for one of them ?
Agree - in fact you might have 4 possible SSIDs available - 2 for each frequency. They usually give you a guest SSID too.tight fart said:
Recently swapped over to Virgin broadband and their router.
First thing I did was rename our Wi-Fi and change the password to something useable.
A couple of weeks back we needed a spare mobile phone so I found an old iPhone in the draw and tried to use that. It couldn’t find our network but could see the original virgin name.
Today I set up a ring doorbell and that was the same.
I had to set it up on the original network name and password that I’ve changed and everything else sees the new name and works fine.
What’s that all about?
If its changed back to its default then its possibly had a firmware/ software update thats reset. My SH3 seemed designed to do just that.First thing I did was rename our Wi-Fi and change the password to something useable.
A couple of weeks back we needed a spare mobile phone so I found an old iPhone in the draw and tried to use that. It couldn’t find our network but could see the original virgin name.
Today I set up a ring doorbell and that was the same.
I had to set it up on the original network name and password that I’ve changed and everything else sees the new name and works fine.
What’s that all about?
If thats not the case its likely a software bug.I would suggest if you are changing wifi names and other stuff that you do a config file backup it comes in handy if your router has to be reset or replaced.
I found the Virgin Superhub 1and 2 awful The revised SH2 actually good and the SH3 one of the dreariest pieces of IT kit I have ever owned
I found some tasks such as setting up fixed DHCP addressers on the SH3 to be ponderous at best its tendency to hiccup during tasks was painful.
The one I was invited to try out the square one that became the SH4 rather good
I quit virgin some 8 or 9 months ago due to ever increasing costs
However
No matter how poor or good the Virgin Superhubs were were I bettered them by using a seperate Netgear and later a magnificent Fritzbox router as a router with the Superhub in modem mode
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