Faulty Router?

[ElectronicVin]

Joined VM on 27th December 2023! After about two weeks, the router stopped working. I rebooted it and it worked again. About a week later the same thing happened. Same procedure followed. Same result. Since then the speed has deterioratedm My laptop and new ipad give a speed of roughly 15MBS. I cannot watch streamed tv, it just keeps on breaking up. I cannot use Sonos because the music just disappears. Even my ipad would not load the news pages from BBC.

I have been three times through the procedure of having the router reset by VM but it makes no difference. It just says that "we will run further checks" then does the same reset all over again. 

I have found it impossible to speak to anybody. I called 0345 454 1111 and got nowhere. There was nobody to talk to. I fear that all I can do is to write a letter (in this day and age!) but will I get a result? I had none of this with Plusnet!

Dejected ElectronicVin

[jbrennand · Accepted solution]

What Hub model did you get?  What do its lights show when it "stop working"?  And does it stop on ethernet cable connections as well as wifi ones ?

It looks suspiciously like a typical wifi issue.. you could try this from an old post of mine and see if it helps...

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If you haven't done this already - try it first - it helps sort some Hub3/4/5 wifi issues for some devices.
Go into the Hub’s settings. Type in  http://192.168.0.1  into your web browser’s url box and login with settings password on the Hub's base sticker (or your own if you changed it). Then in Advanced>wireless signal >smart wifi - tick the disable “channel optimisation” box or the“Smart Wifi” box and save settings.  May be different pathways and wording on the 3 Hub types

This (message 2) is for a Hub3… https://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Networking-and-WiFi/Hub-3-Wi-Fi-constantly-dropping/td-p/539137...

Then, go to advanced>wireless signal>security, rename the 2.4 & 5 GHz network ssid's.  Just type over to change 'em to whatever you like and something that will differentiate them (e.g - Billybob_2 & Billybob_5) Try to avoid spaces and periods in the SSID names as they can cause issues with certain devices. Use the same password for simplicity,  Then, apply settings and restart the Hub.  Your 2 wifi networks will now be clearly separated - and you can then select the network you want each device to connect to… individually from the "available networks" list on each of your devices. 

Note all your wifi devices will need re-connecting to the new SSID's and passwords.
All things being equal, 5 GHz is always better/faster and subject to less congestion/interference (and is better for iDevice speeds than the 2.4 one - although the 2.4 one has the better "range" and will be needed when the 5 GHz drops out of range and some older/cheaper/dumber or “specialised” devices can only use this one. 

You should also use a wifi analyser App (or Airport Utility on iOS) to check which 2.4 channels are being heavily used around you and move yours to one of numbers 1,6,11 that is least so, but it wont help if there is other interference.

See if these changes help - you will lose any “seamless roaming” benefits but it may not matter and you can always change the settings back by doing a " pinhole factory reset " if you prefer the way it was - or it doesn’t help.

[Client62]

Is this for real ?

15MBS = 120Mb/s far more than plenty for watching streamed TV.

[ElectronicVin]

Dear Hero,

I have no idea what you are talking about. Using the Virgin Media speed checker on myiPad I get a speed of 15Mbps. The units printed here are exactly as the checker gives them. Where does the 120 come in please?

ElectronicVin