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Lewisbull01
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12 months ago

Virgin Media Latency

Hi, we’ve been on VM for as long as I can remember but recently I’ve started to notice a lot of lag when it comes to latency. I set up a BQM which has been running for about a month now. I regularly get lag spikes when gaming and as of recent it’s made playing anything near enough impossible. I only play with my PC and PS5 wired, the hub is in modem mode connected to TP-Link Omar’s equipment however router mode makes no difference either.

is there anything we can do to help bring the latency down?

Live BQM for reference: https://www.thinkbroadband.com/broadband/monitoring/quality/share/68e06288d73e7f41100b6e3eb3ad6f0a458aa135

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  • legacy1's avatar
    legacy1
    Alessandro Volta

    latency problems is VM nemesis they can only hope to solve by more upstream splitting    

    • Lewisbull01's avatar
      Lewisbull01
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      Yeah that’s always been my complaint with VM is latency, it simply can’t compete with FTTP

    • Lewisbull01's avatar
      Lewisbull01
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      We’re currently on the 350/35 package, no plans on upgrading currently though as we’re trying to get FTTP installed

  • jpeg1's avatar
    jpeg1
    Alessandro Volta

    You have a very busy family or neighbours or both. Unless VM have plans for a local upgrade you are stuck with this. 

    • Lewisbull01's avatar
      Lewisbull01
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      See a lot of the time the house has no one in it, other than just myself and it’s still that bad. I know one of my neighbours has FTTP but not sure on the other. Must just be a non ideal area 

    • Lewisbull01's avatar
      Lewisbull01
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      We have a Hub 3 currently, unless we upgrade I don't believe we can get a 4 or 5 though.

      • John_GS's avatar
        John_GS
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        Hi Lewisbull01 

        Thanks for posting and welcome to the community.

        Sorry to hear of any latency issues. We've not been able to locate you via the Forum details provided so I will send you a PM and then be able to run tests.

        Can you pop the router in router mode for me, it's purely for our tests to be able to be done 🙂

        Best wishes.