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asha_bristol's avatar
asha_bristol
Up to speed
14 days ago

Poor Broadband Speed and Disconnects

My broadband speed has dropped significantly and has endless disconnections. I've reset the router and it's just the same. Cabled I can barely get 200mb on a 1gig connection. I've tried to report this online but just keep getting told it's a wi-fi issue. It's not, it's a broadband issue affecting both wi-fi and cabled connections. Please can someone look into this?

  • I've noticed similar too, although my speed tests show 460Mb download on a Gigabit connection, the latency at 30ms and dropouts are causing us issues for gaming and working from home over a VPN!

  • Someone with more knowledge than me has looked at the router logs and said the downstream power settings are too low causing millions of errors, hence the low speed and constant disconnects. Please can someone from VM confirm this and arrange for it to be fixed as soon as possible. Thank you.

    • Adduxi's avatar
      Adduxi
      Very Insightful Person

      Can you please run a wired speed test on www.samknows.com/realspeed and post the results.

    • Ayisha_B's avatar
      Ayisha_B
      Forum Team

      Hi asha_bristol 👋

      Welcome back to our Community Forums and thanks for your post. 

      I am sorry to hear about the issues with the service. 

      I'd like to take a closer look into this so will pop you a PM 📩 now and we can take it from there.

      Speak soon!

  • My broadband speed has dropped significantly and has endless disconnections. I've reset the router and it's just the same. Cabled I can barely get 200mb on a 1gig connection. I've tried to report this online but just keep getting told it's a wi-fi issue. It's not, it's a broadband issue affecting both wi-fi and cabled connections. Please can someone look into this?

  • Client62's avatar
    Client62
    Alessandro Volta

    To be taken seriously with speed problems, provide a screen shot 
    from the Full Test of the link below :-

    https://www.samknows.com/realspeed/

    Once the test begins click on: Run full test to include: Latency, Jitter, Packet loss & Upload speed