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foghornleghorn's avatar
5 hours ago

Hub 5 dropout

Afternoon,

I recently contacted VM to discuss possibilty of obtaining a pod to assist an issue in 1 room of our house that has low wifi signal and they accepted that 1 was required, but as i refused to pay the £8 monthly charge (i don't agree with it), they then offered to upgrade my b/b to 1gig package and sent the new hub5.

Since it has been about 10 days now, i am finding the Hub 5 keeps dropping signal in that my phone says connected to wifi but no internet access.

Having used the VM Connect app, it does a test and says unable to connect to network but then it can connect instantly and says all is good.

I have also noticed the wifi coverage is nowhere near as good as it should be in other areas of the house, rather than the 1 initial room that we had previously.

In the room where the hub is, we have full strength wifi.

Reading the forums now, it appears many other people have experienced similar issues with Hub5 so hopefully someone from VM can help here as the webchat option is waste of time in my experience.

Thanks

6 Replies

  • legacy1's avatar
    legacy1
    Alessandro Volta

    You should downgrade back to your old speed then just get your own wifi router with 2.5Gb ports and put hub in modem mode.

    • foghornleghorn's avatar
      foghornleghorn
      Tuning in

      Not sure that would fix my original issue of poor wifi in 1 room.

      Our house was extended and the hub sits in the extension side.

      The room with poor signal is through the original gable end of the house.

      • legacy1's avatar
        legacy1
        Alessandro Volta

        The wifi is poor to start with on the hub  so you could get a AP by wire to where its poor if needed but really get a better router 1st

  • Client62's avatar
    Client62
    Alessandro Volta

    Even at Free the VM Pods are not going to be used here ! 

  • Adduxi's avatar
    Adduxi
    Very Insightful Person

    Personally, I wouldn't have upgraded to 1Gb just to get "free" Pods.  You might have had better luck just buying your own Wifi solution to keep, irrespective of ISP.

    Are you within the 14 day cancellation period of this upgrade?