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decwilson's avatar
decwilson
Tuning in
11 months ago

Internet keeps disconnecting

We've had virgin for nearly 3 months, and every day at random times, the internet drops off and the router blinks red for 5 minutes or till we restart the box and then reconnects. I know this means the router is trying to find a connection, but I am struggling to understand what is going on. We've had an engineer out and they replaced the coax cable and then the internet was stable for a week, but now its back to the same old.

Can anyone explain to me what is happening? When I've checked the interface, sometimes I see the message; US only.

  • jbrennand's avatar
    jbrennand
    Very Insightful Person

    Can you clarify... are your connection issues only evident on wifi connections or do you see them at the same times on devices connected on ethernet cables? If you don't know, can you check on one to help diagnose whether it is just a wifi issue or it could be network connection/Hub related?

    What Hub model is it? What are the various Hub lights showing/doing when this happens if a Hub3 is the base light a steady white(ish) or flashing green?

    • decwilson's avatar
      decwilson
      Tuning in

      Both, The PCs are connected to the box via ethernet in a netgear switch and the tv and the consoles are connected via Wi-Fi. All devices go down at the same time.

      We have the Hub 5, and from the manual I checked for this Hub it says Red blinking light means its lost connection to the box outside the property. I've personally seen 3 different lights, the steady white light when its working, a red blinking light when its down, and a green/yellow light when restarting.

      • jbrennand's avatar
        jbrennand
        Very Insightful Person

        OK - can you do this....

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        First thing is to check for any “known network faults in your location - Look in 2 places

        1) Try the “check service,”Area status webpage (https://www.virginmedia.com/help/service-status)

        2) Then also Try the “free & automated” Service Status number - 0800 561 0061 - which usually gives the most up to date info. and tells you of more local issues and fix estimates, down to street cab/ postcode level.

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        If nothing is reported there,

        Post up your Hub/network connection details and someone will check to see if there is a problem there.  In your browser’s URL box type in http://192.168.0.1 (or http://192.168.100.1 - if in modem mode) (DONT click these links) - and hit return. 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