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Keithw25
Joining in
13 days ago

Ridiculous slow speed in my area.

I am in Bristol BS15 area my contracted speed is 125 mb this drops on an evening from around 6.30 to about 10.30 my speed is like 5 to 9mb sometimes 20mb. This is unacceptable. i have check with my neighbour who are having the same issues. Virgin done essential work to improve your networkon20 March since then it's been rubbish.

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  • Tudor's avatar
    Tudor
    Very Insightful Person

    Check with Area faults on 0800 561 0061 If you have a VM landline 150 this goes down to post code level. You could also try the web service status page, but this is not recommended as it only covers issues that affect a very large number of customers.

    VM will not dispatch any technicians while an area fault exists.

    If no area faults found:

    The primary place to report faults or for service requests is Customer Services on 0345 454 1111/150 if you have a VM landline or wait two or three days for a VM staff member to get to your post. This board is not a fault reporting system.

  • jbrennand's avatar
    jbrennand
    Very Insightful Person

    Also...

     If you haven’t already, set up a free, secure and “offlsite”  - “Broadband Quality Monitor” to continually monitor the state of your connection and record any true network dropouts , latency issues, packet drops, etc - it will thus allow you to differentiate between those and simple wifi dropouts.  It does it 24/7/365 and it keeps a visual record of any/all of your network disconnections, useful data to have to match to the Network logs (in your Hub settings) and also in discussions with VM - note it will take a few hours to start seeing a sensible picture - post up the “link” to the “share live graph”.  Click the lower link (Share Live Graph) then, click generate. Copy the text in the Direct Link box, beware, there may be more text than you can see.  On here click the Link icon (2 links chain to the left of the camera icon) In the URL box paste the link you copied and then click OK
     https://www.thinkbroadband.com/broadband/monitoring/quality