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Why can't I get an engineer to fix my long term broadband issues?

tpoolan
Tuning in

I am reaching the end of my tether with the support available through virgin media. For almost a year I have had to put up with intermittent and weak connectivity, low data and other weirdness. I have just come off the phone to customer support and the operative wasn't allowed to book an engineer appointment because everything looked ok at their end. Now I'm supposed to "monitor the situation for 24 hours" and hope that someone calls me back. I've been monitoring, resetting and going through the hideous loop that is virgin online help for too long now.

This is on top of several severe outages that have been happening in our area over the last few months (I can out up with these because at least I know it's not my own setup at fault).

I think my problem lies with the 360 hub. Everything was fine before we were persuaded to switch to the new box. Since then, wifi coverage has been worse in general and often awful. Wired connections are usually ok but we do lose even that on occasion. 

It's not the wifi carrier signal that drops out, devices stay connected with lots of bars etc. but there is just little or no data getting through. It's almost as if the box gets "tired" and can't shift data further than one room! I have a wireless printer that used to work happily in the kitchen (about 12 feet away but with a wall in the way) that I now have to carry into the same room as the hub to get anything to print.

All I want is for an engineer to come out and assess the problem first-hand so if they can't fix it, at least I can leave Virgin knowing I tried everything.

Does anyone have any ideas about how I can get decent support?

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lotharmat
Community elder
Hiya,

The VM hubs are pretty poor for routing - If it were me; I'd get my own router and use that!

Your sanity will thank you!

In the meantime; let's rule out a connection problem!

Can you post your Hub status and logs?
Someone should be spot if there is a problem
Navigate to http://192.168.0.1 (or http://192.168.100.1 - if in modem mode)
Don't log in!
Click on 'router status'
Copy/paste the data from each of the tabs. The forum software will remove the MAC addresses for you (you may need to click the 'post' button again).

Also, set up a 'Broadband Quality Monitor'. This will monitor the state of your connection and record any network dropouts etc - You can do this at ThinkBroadband (https://www.thinkbroadband.com/broadband/monitoring/quality)
Give it a while to gather data and then click 'Share Live graph' and paste the 'Direct Link' into the forum!



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Hub 3 - Modem Mode - TP-Link Archer C7

jbrennand
Very Insightful Person
Very Insightful Person
There is no 360Hub. Do you have the Hub3 or Hub4. What wan the old Hub that worked ok - was that a Superhub1,2,2ac?

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John
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I do not work for VM. My services: HD TV on VIP (+ Sky Sports & Movies & BT sport), x3 V6 boxes (1 wired, 2 on WiFi) Hub5 in modem mode with Apple Airport Extreme Router +2 Airport Express's & TP-Link Archer C64 WAP. On Volt 350Mbps, Talk Anytime Phone, x2 Mobile SIM only iPhones.

Sorry, my mistake, it's a Hub 3.

I used to use a posh TP Link router with the Hub 3 in modem mode but they stopped playing nicely together. I deliberately went back to the basic, default setup to eliminate any possible fault with my own gear.

At the moment, I can only get working wifi in the living room, if I go 12 feet into the kitchen, no dice. Devices think they are connected but no data coming through. Some days it will be ok, other days like this or worse.

jbrennand
Very Insightful Person
Very Insightful Person
Are the issues usually only evident on wifi connections or do you see them at the same times on devices connected on ethernet cables? You said "occasionally" - so how frequently is that?

And what are the various Hub3 lights showing/doing when this happens?

Then post up the data as requested by Iotharmat

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John
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I do not work for VM. My services: HD TV on VIP (+ Sky Sports & Movies & BT sport), x3 V6 boxes (1 wired, 2 on WiFi) Hub5 in modem mode with Apple Airport Extreme Router +2 Airport Express's & TP-Link Archer C64 WAP. On Volt 350Mbps, Talk Anytime Phone, x2 Mobile SIM only iPhones.

Cable Modem StatusItem Status Comments

Acquired Downstream Channel (Hz)
203000000
Locked
Ranged Upstream Channel (Hz)
39400000
Locked
Provisioning State
Online
 

Downstream bonded channels

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Downstream bonded channels

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5Locked38.640
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Upstream bonded channels

Channel Frequency (Hz) Power (dBmV) Symbol Rate (ksps) Modulation Channel ID

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24620000045512064 qam3
35370000045512064 qam2
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Upstream bonded channels

Channel Channel Type T1 Timeouts T2 Timeouts T3 Timeouts T4 Timeouts

1ATDMA0000
2ATDMA0000
3ATDMA0000
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Min Traffic Rate0



Primary Upstream Service Flow

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Max Traffic Rate22000061
Max Traffic Burst42600
Min Traffic Rate0
Max Concatenated Burst42600
Scheduling TypeBestEffort