General FAQ on Virgin Media's WiFi Sharing - Page 4

Sephiroth · 23-08-2015, 13:48

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Originally Posted by roughbeast

The network will also be good for VM's internet telephone calls.

Yes, your graph doesn't look great, but perhaps your area network isn't yet up to the standard required for the national WiFi network or 300Mb.

[SEPH]: my area is 160/12 24/7. The SH
2 has 3 upstreams sometimes 4. The graph will be down to their implementation about which I am enquiring.

In the case of the FON network your FON router has to be registered and actively sharing. FON detect from their Spanish base whether or not you are sharing. You get about 6 weeks grace before you lose roaming rights. Within minutes of reconnecting your roaming rights are restored.

mmm · 23-08-2015, 18:14

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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet

Not sure I understand. How would VLAN tagging mitigate the need for 2 public IP addresses?

The details seem to be ISP/ device specific but I believe some ISPs deliver IPTV and VOIP using this method, tagged packets can get special routing to specific hardware ports, but when traversing the internet they use your modem/router IP.

It seems there are already users with the SH2 and wifi sharing, so not a lot of point speculating - do wifi guests get a to use your internet IP?

Sephiroth · 23-08-2015, 18:36

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Originally Posted by Sephiroth

I've just opted out (temporarily) to see if my BQM graph improves and to see how long it takes for the service flow to be deactivated. <SNIP>.

<SNIP>

UPDATE:

I turned public WiFi off at 11:00 but the wild BQM continued. I rebooted the SH2 at 15:00 and the graph stabilised nicely. At 17:00 I went back to public WiFi (which appeared instantly on setting it ON in My VM) and, as you can see, the BQM remains nice.

Kushan · 23-08-2015, 19:00

Interesting. I wonder if rebooting kicked someone off the wireless and they've yet to reconnect? I may have to do some experimenting myself. Perhaps a full torrent running on the "guest" wifi to see how it affects my main Wifi.

When it roles out here, that is.

Sephiroth · 23-08-2015, 19:48

Nah Kush. Only the SSID is being broadcast and the credentials to get past that are not known to me. The thing doesn't go live before 01-Sep.

JPAC · 23-08-2015, 19:51

Where in 'My Virgin Media' is the opt in/out setting?

All I get on VM 'My profile' is Oops, something's broken. We're sorry this isn't the page you wanted.

This part of the site isn't working at the moment, but it'll be up and running again soon.

Other parts of the site might be working as normal, so try using the links below to help you find what you want.

Kushan · 23-08-2015, 19:51

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Originally Posted by Sephiroth

Nah Kush. Only the SSID is being broadcast and the credentials to get past that are not known to me. The thing doesn't go live before 01-Sep.

Are you sure? I thought it would have used the same app people use to get on the Wifi on the underground?

Sephiroth · 23-08-2015, 20:04

Yeah - I'm sure. We were told this behind the scenes.

Kushan · 23-08-2015, 20:50

Ahh fair enough

General Maximus · 23-08-2015, 20:50

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Originally Posted by JPAC

Where in 'My Virgin Media' is the opt in/out setting?

All I get on VM 'My profile' is Oops, something's broken. We're sorry this isn't the page you wanted.

This part of the site isn't working at the moment, but it'll be up and running again soon.

Other parts of the site might be working as normal, so try using the links below to help you find what you want.

isng in, click on my profile and scroll all the way down to the bottom. The last option is a check box for opt in or opt out for wifi and then you click on confirm to update. I did it yesterday with no probs and I have just logged in again now to check it for you and had no probs.

JPAC · 23-08-2015, 21:03

Thanks for checking, all I get is the oops message . Another call to VM to sort this out.

nomadking · 23-08-2015, 21:09

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Originally Posted by JPAC

Where in 'My Virgin Media' is the opt in/out setting?

All I get on VM 'My profile' is Oops, something's broken. We're sorry this isn't the page you wanted.

This part of the site isn't working at the moment, but it'll be up and running again soon.

Other parts of the site might be working as normal, so try using the links below to help you find what you want.

Is there a page with settings where that doesn't happen? Switching off "advanced error search" doesn't work either. I'm assuming my VPN problems are related to that and not something stupid that VM are doing with VPN traffic.

Mr K · 23-08-2015, 21:12

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Originally Posted by General Maximus

isng in, click on my profile and scroll all the way down to the bottom. The last option is a check box for opt in or opt out for wifi and then you click on confirm to update. I did it yesterday with no probs and I have just logged in again now to check it for you and had no probs.

No such option there for me (maybe its because i've got an SH1 which doesn't look like it'll be able to do this anyway ?)

Sephiroth · 23-08-2015, 21:16

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Originally Posted by JPAC

Thanks for checking, all I get is the oops message . Another call to VM to sort this out.

One of the MY VM links is broken. There is more than one and the others work but I haven't the time to find them for you. Sorry.

Ignitionnet · 23-08-2015, 23:12

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Originally Posted by mmm

The details seem to be ISP/ device specific but I believe some ISPs deliver IPTV and VOIP using this method, tagged packets can get special routing to specific hardware ports, but when traversing the internet they use your modem/router IP.

It seems there are already users with the SH2 and wifi sharing, so not a lot of point speculating - do wifi guests get a to use your internet IP?

Guests will not use the same public IP as the customer whose property the Superhub lives in.

There are no customers with WiFi sharing live right now.