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DeltaVee595
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9 months ago

Unstable broadband connection

I have had years of totally reliable connection with Virgin Media until about 3-4 weeks ago. Since then I have been experiencing 'reliably unreliable' connection, with reduced bandwidth and dropouts tending to occur morning and evening. 

A VM engineer visited (excellent service!), replaced my old hub with a nice new Hub5, but this has not made any difference. 

BQM shows latency spikes matching the periods of dropped connection (see attached files). Ookla indicates my bandwidth is going from 368Mbps/ 18ms ping /30ms jitter to 6Mbps / 160ms ping /1184ms jitter in the space of a few mins. 

I've tried a factory reset on the hub, tried the hub in modem mode and confirmed that the problem persists across ethernet and WiFi. I mostly use ethernet so this is not a WiFI problem. 

I would welcome any assistance or advice about resolving this.