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Re: Experiencing high ping spikes

I surprised VM didn't say “keep your upload speed under 10Mb or your hub will explode”.
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Re: Experiencing high ping spikes

haha it probably would explode, can't wait for my hub 4 to be gone, the fan in it runs even in modem mode, it's faint but it adds a buzz to the room, why is the fan on and the thing so damn hot even in modem mode? My Asus gaming router is 10x as powerful and doesn't even have any fans.
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Re: Experiencing high ping spikes

I have no idea what this means haha

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Re: Experiencing high ping spikes

Adding back into this thread with an update.

I received a visit from an engineer who, while replacing the Hub 4 with a Hub 5 (which, surprise surprise, hasn't done anything), informed me that "they can't do anything about latency". Which is pure drivel, honestly. Its very clearly oversubscription on the ISP, and my internet is unusable for gaming at the moment. Is there any way to escalate this issue?

I've also added in a new broadband monitor for the router, showing the exact same latency spikes through the day.

https://www.thinkbroadband.com/broadband/monitoring/quality/share/d4732c870cf0b8f2e48b9c1d0cd33f3fb0... 

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Re: Experiencing high ping spikes

It was honest of the technician to say there was nothing they could do. 

Any improvement would have to come with a network upgrade. How can you escalate that? 

Answers on a postcard 😞 

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Re: Experiencing high ping spikes

From what I was told, Virgin's fault fixing only happens when a large number of people in a given area complain to them using the online reporting tool.

Unfortunately for us gamers, that means the issue will never be fixed.

As discussed with the engineer at the weekend, myself and a friend are probably the only two young adults on the postcode, so all the parents around here and older generation watching their Love Island won't have a clue that their low bitrate ITV hub stream is dropping during and episode.

I'm going the route of asking for a price match with BT's max package, and then taking out a separate BT line for gaming, or if they refuse that I'll be leaving Virgin altogether and going with an older BT line until they get FTTP here.

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