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JBM78's avatar
JBM78
Tuning in
27 days ago

6 days after installation, broken router.....

After a seemingly neverending series of issues / delays with installation (including OCU Group twice visiting my house to dig up my driveway after it had been confirmed by Virgin that no external work was required), I finally got up and running on 22 February.

All fine until today, less than a week later, when I'm greeted by a flashing red light on the Hub 5. Support do some tests and decide that the router is faulty..... after 6 days

They will send a replacement which may take 5 days, not great when I WFH!

Based on recent experience with Support, I have no faith whatsoever that a new router will fix the problem. I've done all the usual stuff (turn off for a while then back on, push the reset button with a pin for 30 seconds, check all wiring & connections etc) with no luck.

Any other suggestions from those who may have had similar issues?

Thanks in advance

  • jbrennand's avatar
    jbrennand
    Very Insightful Person

    Can you do this...

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    Post up your Hub/network connection details in the format below and someone will check to see if there is a problem there.  In your browser’s URL type in 192.168.0.1  if in router mode or 192.168.100.1 if in modem mode.     No need to log in - just click on the “Router Status” icon/text at bottom-middle (Hub3/4/5) or top/right (SH’s) - of the Login page.

    Then… Navigate to these “data pages” and just copy/paste the normal  “Formatted Text” (not images) 3 FULL sets of data onto here – 2 tables from the Downstream, 2 from the Upstream, &  the Network Logs pages.  Don't worry too much about the formatting it can be easily read & DON’T include personal data or MAC addresses - blank them out - if you copy/paste the data, the board software will do this for you (you may need to click the "submit" button again). If character limits are “exceeded” - just do two posts

    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

    • JBM78's avatar
      JBM78
      Tuning in

      Thanks for the reply.

      I can't access 192.168.0.1 'This site can't be reached'

      Weirdly at one point just after restarting the hub I was able to get to the 192.168.0.1 password page, but by the time I'd typed in the password I had a blinking red light and the connection to the router was lost

       

      • Adduxi's avatar
        Adduxi
        Very Insightful Person

        I would point out that there are no SLA's on Residential Contracts.  However if you WFH, I would suggest you invest in a backup solution.  Perhaps a Data SIM on a 30 day contract?  It will save a lot of heartache if VM goes on the blink again.  Hopefully you will get sorted soon !