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Cesco's avatar
Cesco
On our wavelength
6 months ago

Huge connection issue inside home, unacceptable

Hi guys, is any of you experiencing this connection issue? Since few days, only during evening and early night, connection speed drops down to almost zero on both download and upload, latency and jitter go skyrocket high. Checking Samknows and also the Hub 4 diagnostics (192.168.0.1) everything seems perfect from the router side, but ALL devices at home receive a very bad signal, going from 550 mbps download-55 upload they usually take, to 20 download and 4 upload. I've already phoned Virgin Media support and they say it's all good from their side, however, of course it isn't. There are no new devices, unless there's a "rogue" device which somehow managed to get into my line and is using insanely amounts of data. Is there a way to check this? I don't know what to think... 

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  • jbrennand's avatar
    jbrennand
    Very Insightful Person

    Can you do this...

    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

  • Client62's avatar
    Client62
    Alessandro Volta

    "only during evening and early night" ... "bad signal"

    The times when a near by microwave oven or a wireless central heating controller may be operating.

  • Adduxi's avatar
    Adduxi
    Very Insightful Person

    Run a Wifi scanner when this is occurring to check your Wifi environment for issues.

  • Hi Cesco,

    Thank you for your post. We're sorry to hear about the issue with your service. 

    Can you confirm if you are still having this issue?

    ^Martin