on 24-06-2022 06:59
Hi, I’ve just upgraded my package including the broadband. I had to pay for an engineer to come to set up the new router?? I wasn’t in but my daughter was. Upon checking on my return a new hub 4 has been installed but I am only getting wifi speeds if max 350 and that’s when standing by the router. The engineer left my BT whole home hubs connected to the router. If I take these out and go direct through virgin then I have very little coverage through my house, indeed my ring doorbell cannot even find the wifi signal. I feel as though I am no better off. Why wasn’t I given the new hub 5 and why has there engineer left without ensuring coverage throughout the house including of the doorbell!! Presumably I have a 14 day cooling off period to allow me to cancel the whole lot? Thanks
on 24-06-2022 07:46
You'll only see a maximum of about 600 Mbps over wifi because of the technology that the Hub 4 and BT disks use (Wifi 5), and if the signal is attenuated by thick walls or the device itself has lower capabilities speeds will be well below that, even with a mesh wifi setup. A Hub 5 (still on trial, so not rated for prime time release) might give you faster speeds close to the hub thanks to Wifi 6 if your devices support that, but beyond that no, because the BT disks are still Wifi 5 and the range of the Hub 5 is not materially different to other VM hubs. Even if you got a Hub 5 and VM's pods to extend it, those pods are still Wifi 5 so the same speeds as BT disks are likely.
VM technicians never check wifi coverage - it isn't priced into the contract which assumes a quick install-and-run and as far as VM are concerned wifi coverage is the customer's concern.
I assume that you've looked in the hub's settings and checked that the hub is showing full speed via the built in SamKnows test? If that's indicating 1 Gbps speeds, then the hub is performing as expected and your problems are indeed with wifi. If that's only showing say 350-600, then there's something wrong with the broadband side of things. That would be (probably) fixable, but you'd still not see above 600 Mbps over any Wifi 5 connection.
If you're not happy then yes, you have a 14 day cooling off period starting from when the connection went live, invoking that will take you back to whatever arrangement you previously had with VM in terms of package and speed.
on 24-06-2022 12:31
Thanks for the response. Can you please let me know how I can test the speed via the samknows method you mentioned. Many thanks
on 24-06-2022 13:42
Either go to samknows.com/realspeed or scan the QR code in your Virgin Media Fibre Guide, which the installer should have left when installing your Hub 4, or should have been in the package. You may need to run repeated tests if the problem is intermittent.