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High Latency / Massively Delayed Packets

Swinterz
Joining in

Can see there is a quite a few posts on here with the same issue, currently have an open complaint with Virgin but they've not been the most useful so far.

I suspect over utilisation of the network having looked at several of the posts on here, issue only started around one month ago and prior to that my internet was faultless.

Going to post Router Status and BQM links below, can someone please take a look and just let me know if perhaps there is another issue?

Much appreciated.

 

https://www.thinkbroadband.com/broadband/monitoring/quality/share/af4f0d93b696a9fcb528703278c36a056d... 


https://www.thinkbroadband.com/broadband/monitoring/quality/share/c18e4609a7696df5f109da4886e30ac5b8... 


https://www.thinkbroadband.com/broadband/monitoring/quality/share/6626fc02f3b1328ab1cc4efc77466de829... 


https://www.thinkbroadband.com/broadband/monitoring/quality/share/010f65a67c4d5c2422cf648450f6f60e44... 


https://www.thinkbroadband.com/broadband/monitoring/quality/share/765404ac2421ab06cdf748558efe64f260... 


https://www.thinkbroadband.com/broadband/monitoring/quality/share/eef12806dea34532d20a394375e7065ddf...

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Paulina_Z
Forum Team (Retired)
Forum Team (Retired)

Hi @Swinterz,

Thank you for coming back to me via private message and confirming your details. I have now booked you a technician visit for your ongoing latency and power level issue – you can check and amend the date and time of your appointment via your online account.

There will be no charge for this visit unless:
•    The technician diagnoses the faults as not being caused by our network/equipment 
•    The technician discovers that the fault or problem relates to your equipment
•    The technician discovers that the fault or problem relates to any system that we are not responsible for
The technician will confirm during their visit if any of these instances apply, and if so, a £25 charge will be applied to your account. 
Please ensure there is someone over the age of 18 present at the time of the visit. If you need to change or cancel your appointment you can do this online or via the MyVM app by 4pm the day before the appointment.
If you do miss an agreed appointment for any reason, a £25 missed appointment charge will be applied to your account on the day of the appointment.

Thank you.

Paulina_Z
Forum Team

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Hi Paulina,

Technician has attended site today and changed some connectors on the cables that he said could have potentially caused some noise, unfortunately this has made no impact to the service and I'm still suffering with the same issue of area over-utilisation after a reset.

The technician did say something about the area being 98% utilisation which is likely pulled out of thin air but seems likely.

I understand that these network faults are not going to be a quick fix and I appreciate that nothing I say here is likely to change that, as a temporary solution I'm just going to get a secondary ISP ran into my home so that I can use the internet as needed.

My issue really remaining now is that I'm paying an extortionate amount for a package that does not function, please can you advise if there is somewhere I can request the compensation/reduction until these issues are fixed. My last telephone agent advised me that they would provide compensation once the issue is resolved, but at this rate that could be years down the line.

This isn't something that I can request over the phone to a normal agent as they don't really understand the fundamentals of how the internet works or if there is issues unless it shows on a speed test.

Many thanks for all of your help so far.

Travis_M
Forum Team (Retired)
Forum Team (Retired)

Hi @Swinterz

 

Thanks for posting on our community forum!
 

Our auto compensation scheme can be found here for anything regarding compensation. I do apologise that the tech visit hasn't seen any improvements and the engineer has advised regarding a potential congestion issue, the engineer will feed this to networks so we can look to improve this.

 

As for changing your package, you would need to contact our team on 150 or 0345 454 1111 who will look at reducing this for you. I do apologise for the inconvenience caused, if you would like to discuss the broadband issues further we can do so here but for any package changes we'd need you to run through our customer service centre.

 

Regards

Travis_M
Forum Team

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Hi Travis/VM Team,

Thank you for the below response appreciate the time you've given.

Can you please advise if there is anyway to see if there was feedback sent from the engineer sent to the networks team to be looked at? BQM is still suffering as per below; Seems there is a lot of issues arising for many people at the moment I can't help but see it looks like a major infrastructure issue.

https://www.thinkbroadband.com/broadband/monitoring/quality/share/fbfc0f748a0369821678c8df193e6433d0...

Lastly would it be possible for another virgin technician to attend or do I need to book it over the phone? Unfortunately when the previous one came out and changed the connector he changed from a dual to a single connector in the box outside and our line running into the house splits separately and runs into different rooms for the router and the TiVo box, now the TiVo box is no longer connected.

Many thanks again,

 

@Swinterz I have to say that the BQM is an almost textbook example of what you would expect to see for an oversubscribed (congested) connection.

Now whether the engineer reported it or not is absolutely irrelevant, VM will work to fix it or keep kicking the can down the road (hint: actually realistically, they won’t fix it anytime soon).

Alas other than restoring your TiVo connection, another engineer won’t be able to do anything to fix the congestion issue.

So what you might want too do is see what alternative broadband suppliers are available to you......

Hi Jem,

Thanks for getting back to me, I know nothing is realistically going to happen by posting when its oversubscribed but I guess don't ask don't ever get!

I'm aware that the engineer can't do anything, however I do just want another one out so that we can restore the TV connection that he has pulled the plug on.

Already getting another secondary ISP ran into the house for now and will just review virgin as time goes on, thank you for the input!

Kind regards,

Ryan_N
Forum Team (Retired)
Forum Team (Retired)

Hey Swinterz - thank you for coming back to us. 

 

In terms of the TV being connected - was there a reason this was disconnected in the first place? Unsure why you would have been left like this. 

 

Cheers, 

Ryan.