on 24-05-2023 19:03
i too am getting VPN dropouts. I have tried your support desk many times. As soon as i mention my works VPN they try to push me to Virgin Gadget Rescue.
i've had Virgin broadband for 8 years, and the dropouts are getting worse.
My laptop wifi card drivers have been updated, and all my laptop software is upto date.
My works IT support have done everything they can.
When i use my mobile hotspot i dont get any dropouts at all.
Can an administrator please help me to solve this.
i have a Hub 3.
Unless i get a solution, i will have to leave when my contract ends.
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on 24-05-2023 19:51
OK first things first, the BQM you provided is really, very, very good for a VM connection - no obvious issues there. Except a BQM only really graphs the connectivity between their infrastructure and your hub, it’s a useful tool but nothing more than that - certainly isn't definitive about, well anything really!
VM officially don’t support VPNs, now this doesn’t mean they don’t work, (otherwise, I’d be in trouble as I use them every single day); but rather they won’t provide any sort of technical support for them - and absolutely DO NOT touch ‘Gadget Rescue’ with a barge pole, or even someone else’s barge pole, they will be about as helpful as a house brick, although the house brick won’t charge you a sum each month for the privilege!
VPNs can be a bit awkward, their main concern is to secure a connection between two endpoints on the internet, and anything that makes them think that the connection might not be secure can make them ‘fail safe’ and simply drop the connection. And there are multiple types of VPNs, some may work perfectly on a VM connection, others may not!
In your case, we have established that your underlaying internet connection seems to be fine, the VPN works well on a mobile hotspot, ie a non-VM connection, which hints that there is something which a combination of a VM connection plus whatever VPN your company uses and the way it has been set up; simply isn't reliable.
If you want my advice, dump VM as soon as you can! OK not really anything that have done wrong but, realistically you are one out of some 5.5 million broadband customers - they are absolutely not going to invest resources into fixing your issue! Now possibly with a lot of further research and digging into these things, it may well be fixable, but VM won’t do it, nobody is going to pay me to do it, so I won’t, not sure anyone else on this forum will be in a position to help either - which rather leaves you stuck between a rock and a hard place!
Probably not the answer you wanted to hear, but it is an honest one!
on 24-05-2023 19:19
i've got a BQM from today which may prove useful to you.
i had dropouts this afternoon between 1400-1600 BST.
on 24-05-2023 19:21
The spike about 15.30 dropped my VPN.
NB: I get no dropouts on mobile hotspot.
on 24-05-2023 19:51
OK first things first, the BQM you provided is really, very, very good for a VM connection - no obvious issues there. Except a BQM only really graphs the connectivity between their infrastructure and your hub, it’s a useful tool but nothing more than that - certainly isn't definitive about, well anything really!
VM officially don’t support VPNs, now this doesn’t mean they don’t work, (otherwise, I’d be in trouble as I use them every single day); but rather they won’t provide any sort of technical support for them - and absolutely DO NOT touch ‘Gadget Rescue’ with a barge pole, or even someone else’s barge pole, they will be about as helpful as a house brick, although the house brick won’t charge you a sum each month for the privilege!
VPNs can be a bit awkward, their main concern is to secure a connection between two endpoints on the internet, and anything that makes them think that the connection might not be secure can make them ‘fail safe’ and simply drop the connection. And there are multiple types of VPNs, some may work perfectly on a VM connection, others may not!
In your case, we have established that your underlaying internet connection seems to be fine, the VPN works well on a mobile hotspot, ie a non-VM connection, which hints that there is something which a combination of a VM connection plus whatever VPN your company uses and the way it has been set up; simply isn't reliable.
If you want my advice, dump VM as soon as you can! OK not really anything that have done wrong but, realistically you are one out of some 5.5 million broadband customers - they are absolutely not going to invest resources into fixing your issue! Now possibly with a lot of further research and digging into these things, it may well be fixable, but VM won’t do it, nobody is going to pay me to do it, so I won’t, not sure anyone else on this forum will be in a position to help either - which rather leaves you stuck between a rock and a hard place!
Probably not the answer you wanted to hear, but it is an honest one!
on 24-05-2023 20:01
All you need to do is use hub i modem mode get your owe router with 1Gb ports
on 24-05-2023 20:51
I use 3 office laptop with VPNs / Citrix, via a wired connection to a Hub 3 in Router mode they work fine.
Our Hub 3's WiFi has been much more stable with the following menu settings.
Wireless Security
on 25-05-2023 18:21
I appreciate your reply. I'm contemplating moving to a 4G mobile router with a SIM card with 200Gb data/month which will be more than enough, and similar cost to VM M130.
on 25-05-2023 18:38
thanks. I'll try anything !!
on 26-05-2023 12:47
Fully agree. I've just had another frustrating morning where my connection timed out.
I work for a large NHS Organisation and all of our partners are reporting issues with staff working from home. All agree that we only see this problem with Virgin Media.
Our official advice now to all staff wanting to work from home is that they cannot use Virgin Media for this purpose and should switch to another provider such as Zen Internet.
It's a pity, I've been a VM customer since the BlueYonder days (at least 15 years) but as soon as my contract expires I'm off.
on 26-05-2023 18:29
It's strange as my connection was fine today, it didnt drop at all, but i only had a couple of Teams calls.
Looking at other community posts, it seems to be more prevalent when doing Teams calls. I will also be moving on at the end of my contract.