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thepeted1
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How to have intermittent signal issues investigated?

Hi, looking for advice from the community or any mods who can assist more directly.

I've been on M500 without much issue for approx 12 months until earlier this month since when I've regularly experienced some fairly prolonged periods of the internet being unusable - typically 30 mins but sometimes 12 hours+.

During these times the internet is not completely down but requests for web resources typically will timeout.  The issues coincide with "SYNC Timing Synchronization failure" error logs and very high packet loss according to BQM tool - for example here is my BQM for past 24 hours.



During these sync issue episodes, the online network status tool will sometimes acknowledge intermittent signal in your area, but sometimes no problems found.  The automated line checker phone service does not seem to ever acknoweldge a problem. 

On Friday, I was able to speak to an advisor to report the problem during a period of sync problems.  After taking me through a reset procedure which did not resolve any problems, she told me she would escalate my problem as she could not see any issues.  I was sent a leaflet by email relating to wifi setup.  I'll be honest, I did not leave that call feeling confident that the advisor had understood what was happening nor that they had passed on the issue correctly accurately.

My question is, how should I best proceed in getting this ongoing issue investigated and/or recieve updates on progress as the current quality of my line is not sustainable.

I appreciate any help or advice.  Thanks for reading!

  • Hi thepeted1 

    Welcome to the Community Forums. 

    Sorry to hear of your service concerns. Checking the systems on our side we can see that you've been in touch with the team and actions are in place to look to resolve this for you. 

    Please let us know if you are having any further issues or have any questions at all. We'll be here to help on the Community Forums if needed.

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  • Hi thepeted1 

    Welcome to the Community Forums. 

    Sorry to hear of your service concerns. Checking the systems on our side we can see that you've been in touch with the team and actions are in place to look to resolve this for you. 

    Please let us know if you are having any further issues or have any questions at all. We'll be here to help on the Community Forums if needed.

    • thepeted1's avatar
      thepeted1
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      Thank you, the engineer visit seems to have resolved the issues.

      Regarding my original question, id add that it is still not clear to me how i obtained the engineer visit.  I was prompted that an engineer visit was required after running an online status check and scheduled it online.  What’s strange is i have used the online status checker many times before this while having the same issues.

       

      • Carley_S's avatar
        Carley_S
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        Great to hear that the engineer resolved the issue for you. 

        The Service Status page would advise an engineer appointment if it detected one was needed to investigate further. If there's an intermittent issue, then it may have picked up the issues happening as they were happening, rather than when they were working fine. Intermittent issues are hard to diagnose and locate, but seems the systems have been any to identify it at the time you were prompted to book an engineer.