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TanjuHergeleci
On our wavelength
2 years ago

High Ping and latency issues Hub5

Hello,

I am currently on the 1GB Wi-Fi service from Virgin Media and have been experiencing some issues. During gaming, I receive random lag spikes sometimes reaching over 1000ms. The lag spikes last around 2-3 seconds but make it hard to play games. 

To quickly summarise:

- This lag is not limited to one device and happens across different devices. 

- I receive good speeds (around 700 down and 80 up) and I am not far from the hub 5.

- This happens across multiple games too not just a single game.

- An engineer has come out and replaced the entire wiring as well as installed a brand new hub 5 but the issue still remains.

- There is no immediate electrical device near the hub or anything blocking how it works. My Hub 3 was in the exact same position and I never experienced random lag spikes on the lower speed which is weird.

- Virgin Media are telling me they can't find any issues with the hub. There is no set time I receive the lag spikes and it happens throughout the day.

 

I set up the think broadband service to track my wifi and this is the latest graph: (I am not sure if its normal or not)

Can anyone help me out? I have tried using wifi 6 as well as wifi 5 and made no difference. I cannot use wired as my computer is upstairs and on 1GB wifi I shouldn't need to.

 

Thank you,

Tanju

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  • I am in the same boat. Got the 1Gig package. Getting a speed of about 200Mbps down, and 20Mbps upload with ping ranging from 500-1500ms on both sides. They have sent out engineers 4 times, replaced the Hub and wiring multiple times and still can't realise that there services are **bleep**. Waiting for fibre to get installed in the building soon and its bye bye to VM, don't care how much it will cost since it will be cheaper on the next package anyways with ANYONE else.

    • Martin_N's avatar
      Martin_N
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      Hi DareVish,

      Thank you for your post and welcome to the community. 

      We're very sorry to hear about the issue you're having with the broadband speed. 

      To confirm, is this on a Wired or Wireless connection?

      ^Martin