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boydford's avatar
boydford
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24 days ago

Speed and Hub 4

Avoid Virgin as they don’t care about you and they just want your money. for anyone from Virgin reading this let me make it extremely clear as I’m sick and tired of trying to explain this to your horrendously pointless customer service reps. The virgin website says 1gig is 1130m, but Super hub 4 that I want replaced can only do 1000mb via gigabit Ethernet ports. Therefore the equipment I have is NOT able to reach the speed that I am paying for.

superhub 5, which NEW customers get has a 2.5gb wan port which can do 2500mbps and would be fine. I WOULD SIMPLY LIKE MY HUB 4 REPLACED WITH SOMETHING THAT CONTRACTUALLY IM PAYING FOR.

 

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  • Sabrina_B's avatar
    Sabrina_B
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    21 days ago

    Hi boydford 👋.

    Thanks for reaching out to us and welcome to the Community Forums, sorry to hear of the issues that you are facing with your services. Whilst you are on 1gb package the Hub 4 and Hub 5 are more than capable of producing those speeds for you, if there is an issue with the Hub we will swap out for a like for like Hub. 

    If you have any documentation that states you are to receive a Hub 5 from us we would not be able to swap out the Hub 4 to a 5.

    Please let us know if you have this information via private message, look out for the envelope on the top right of your web browser or if you are using a mobile device, it will be located under your profile icon.
     

    Thanks.
     

    Sabrina

  • Tudor's avatar
    Tudor
    Very Insightful Person
    21 days ago

    Agree to a certain extent, but most users do not have the equipment to make use of the extra speed.

    • boydford's avatar
      boydford
      Tuning in
      17 days ago

      I do and this is my point. I've ended my contract with Virgin. Its disgusting that their arguement was 1000mb was acceptable...... acceptable to them....not me. Worst customer service ive ever encountered

  • boydford's avatar
    boydford
    Tuning in
    21 days ago

    My contract says 1130mb maximum - and a hug 4 using Ethernet CANNOT do that speed. And I do not want to use WiFi as it’s not reliable

    • carl_pearce's avatar
      carl_pearce
      Superstar
      21 days ago

      Your broadband is meant to be shared across multple devices at the same time.

      So, if you action a speed test on two devices at the same time, and add the results together, it should be around 1130Mbps.

      I understand where you are coming from regarding wanting full speed to one device, however, nowhere states this is possible, which means VM are providing what you are paying for.

      https://samknows.com/realspeed/

      • Client62's avatar
        Client62
        Alessandro Volta
        21 days ago

        I imagine the OP has all electrical appliances plugged into one wall socket and is also complaining to the DNO about not getting the 100 Amps we paid for ... 

        ... sounds quite daft when put like this.

  • Roger_Gooner's avatar
    Roger_Gooner
    Alessandro Volta
    21 days ago

    Due to unavoidable overheads you'll always get speed reductions coming out of a hub's port. So, for the hub 4 the most you'll get is about 940Mbps, for a hub 5's 2.5Gbps port it's about 1,100Mbps. This means the hub 5 should give you about 160Mbps more. You're not likely to notice this and if you have a gigabit NIC in your PC you'll get only 940Mbps even if you have a hub 5.

    • boydford's avatar
      boydford
      Tuning in
      17 days ago

      you are missing the point. Website says 1130 ... so regardless of whether i will ever reach that point due to traffic etc.... I should still have been provided equipment capable of hitting that speed.

      its a consumer rights issue more than anything - they should provide the right equipment

  • boydford's avatar
    boydford
    Tuning in
    17 days ago

    simple answer to the end of all of this is to leave virgin as their customer service during this farce has been pathetic and at points instulting. thankfully im at a point in my contract where i can leave.

    Regardless of opinions of some comments here - you need to simply consider that if you are sold something, but then are not given the equipment that can in theory achieve what you were sold - that is a consumer rights issue.

    so everyone who is at 1gig shoul have a hub 5 that is capable of 1130.... that should not be down to virgin to not honour their end of the agreement, which is what has happened to me and many others.

    bye virgin - and good riddance

  • legacy1's avatar
    legacy1
    Alessandro Volta
    17 days ago

    I agree but VM math is like 1Gb = 1Gb ports = hub 4 fine

  • jpeg1's avatar
    jpeg1
    Alessandro Volta
    16 days ago

    I'm reminded of the nurse talking to the patient in the old Carry On film, "Really Mr Smith, so much fuss about such a little thing!"