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SA_78901
Joining in
4 months ago

Slow speeds - even more broken after Virgin 'fix'!

Hi all, 

First post so I'll try and lay out all I can as concisely as I can: 

  • Three days ago I started to notice our TV (connected via wifi to our 5ghz SSID) was lagging/buffering constantly. Thought it might just be a drop in service but it persisted. 
  • I finally contacted Virgin today after I also noticed slow speeds on my laptop. 
  • I called customer service and was told there was a fault in my area but when I clicked the link in the SMS it said there was no fault in the area (?).
  • I finally got through to web chat  (after six!) attempts that got cut off. They said that I need to reboot my hub every 7 days (?!) but that because it had not been rebooted for more than 21 days there was an issue so they'd 'sent through a fix' to my router, but that I then needed to a pinhole reset. 
  • I did the pinhole reset, went back into my router settings and reconfigured splitting out 2.4ghz and 5ghz (it had always worked before and we did it - following instructions - as gaming works better on my partners laptop that way). 
  • But now the internet speeds are shocking and nothing I do fixes it. I'm getting about 2.0mpb/s download and 0.01 upload.
  • Virgin still say there's no fault in my area. 
  • However, my service status page says "we can't connect to the broadband kit in your home". 
  • My network log and upstream/downstream on my router also seems full of errors (mainly the following every 2-3 minutes): 

    Received Response to Broadcast Maintenance Request, But no Unicast Maintenance opportunities received - T4 time out;

    No Ranging Response received - T3 time-out;

    Unicast Ranging Received Abort Response - initializing 

Any help at all appreciated - I'm going out of my mind trying to figure out what to do! 

6 Replies

    • SA_78901's avatar
      SA_78901
      Joining in

      I’m not a scammer! 😂 I formatted it in word and copied it over to read better! I’m just a perpetually frustrated virgin customer!

      • jbrennand's avatar
        jbrennand
        Very Insightful Person

        As requested - post up your data thus,,

        __________________________________

         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

         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

    • SA_78901's avatar
      SA_78901
      Joining in

      Thanks - do you mean my router network log?

  • Client62's avatar
    Client62
    Alessandro Volta

    For once I am glad to take it all back ! 

    Share the contents of the Downstream & Upstream tabs please.
    Select + Copy & then Paste the text into the forum.