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Themaninblack
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2 years ago
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Explanation of Virgin media router/wifi speeds

Hi All! I am new to VM, having just had my Broadband service installed and on 5th December. I am signed up to the 1Gb package. I have questions however as to how the WiFi speed is so drastically dif...
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    Client62
    2 years ago

    With Sky internet perhaps your connection speed was 40 or at most 80 Mb/s, in this situation your Wi-Fi device could  draw data from the Sky Router much faster than it could be provided. 

    With the VM 1Gb/s service your Wi-Fi device is drawing data at 200 - 300 Mb/s from the VM Hub, the Wi-Fi device has become the limiting factor.

    For some computers the software complement degrades the performance, products such as complex security suites, web content blockers, advert blockers, VPNs inc Apple Relay / Private Browsing tools can all be quite a burden.

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Client62
Alessandro Volta
2 years ago

With Sky internet perhaps your connection speed was 40 or at most 80 Mb/s, in this situation your Wi-Fi device could  draw data from the Sky Router much faster than it could be provided. 

With the VM 1Gb/s service your Wi-Fi device is drawing data at 200 - 300 Mb/s from the VM Hub, the Wi-Fi device has become the limiting factor.

For some computers the software complement degrades the performance, products such as complex security suites, web content blockers, advert blockers, VPNs inc Apple Relay / Private Browsing tools can all be quite a burden.