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Ryan22's avatar
Ryan22
Joining in
20 days ago

Intermittent connection

I’ve been having this issue for months where my connection is perfect for maybe a few days to sometimes over a week, then it will just completely disconnect for hours, for days if not weeks. 

I’ve had an engineer come round, they replaced my hub with a hub 5 (originally a hub 3) which seemed great at the time but the issue just never fully went away. Done all i can to attempt to fix it, but realistically there’s not a lot i can do.

this is todays connection: https://www.thinkbroadband.com/broadband/monitoring/quality/share/42b53d2b86f43b5e4cb51298e5366c734a636424

The above images are some of the worst days ive had but there have been only maybe 5/6 days like this so far (a majority of the time its just 20 minutes then its back for maybe 15)

9 Replies

  • legacy1's avatar
    legacy1
    Alessandro Volta

    Bit of a pain for VM to track down if its not continuous.

    Try not to reboot the hub post up what T# times outs your getting from the hub if the count goes up over time.

    Might be someone in your area has a wrong cable and causing problem and might be only turning on the hub when they feel like it.  

  • I only get t3 timeouts. Not sure what you mean by someone might have the wrong cable. 


    pretty sure its only me in my street that gets the frequent drop outs too. My uncle only lives a few houses down and is on the same plan with no issues. 

    • Adduxi's avatar
      Adduxi
      Very Insightful Person
      Ryan22 wrote:

      Not sure what you mean by someone might have the wrong cable.

      If anyone who is on the same street cabinet as you has done some "DIY" using poor cable, or made a hash, then circuit problems will be caused for all.  This is why, if thinking of cable moving etc. that a VM engineer should always be engaged.

  • Hey Ryan22, thank you for reaching out with all this information, we are sorry to hear about your connection issues.

    We will send you a DM to look into

  • We’re really sorry for all the ongoing issues you’ve had with your connection Ryan22. We understand how frustrating it is when things work perfectly for a few days and then suddenly drop out for hours, days, or even longer. That’s definitely not the experience we want for you.

    It’s good to hear that you’ve already had an engineer visit and received a replacement Hub, but we’re sorry to see the problem hasn’t been fully resolved. To help us pinpoint what’s causing the intermittent drop‑outs, could you please try running through the troubleshooting steps on the link below?

    🔗 https://virg.in/wifinotworking

    This will help check for any issues from your side.
    We’d also recommend checking this link to see if there are any known faults or outages in your area that could be contributing to the problem:

    🔗 https://virg.in/servicechecker

    Once you’ve tried these steps, just let us know what you find — we’ll be here to take the next steps and work on getting this sorted for you😀

    • legacy1's avatar
      legacy1
      Alessandro Volta

      Post count looks to be low so I give you a hint the problem is not wifi the BQM you see by the person post is to the hub if in router mode so this would seem to be a Docsis problem.

  • I’m with my uncle at the moment and he did tell me that his line had to be replaced as he an issue with T3 timeouts too. (so a miscommunication on my part) 

    My line has been down longer than his, potentially that’s the issue? I kind of figured that would be the case but i don’t want to immediately jump on anything that might not be an issue.

  • Following up on my last post, I was told the 5ghz channel 124 is a non functioning channel but when I have channel optimisation on it seems to prefer that channel over others. 

    I tried booking an engineer but the service status page just tells me wait 24 hours because the issue is normally fixed in that time (it has done that for the last 72 hours)

    I also can’t just leave it on any other channel because my connection still drops off completely.

    • Martin_N's avatar
      Martin_N
      Icon for Forum Team rankForum Team

      Thank you for that information. We can certainly look into arranging an engineer for you if this is needed. 

      I will private message you now to confirm your details. 

      ^Martin