on 01-03-2024 19:43
I live in a standard small 3 bed house with plasterboard walls. I have a VM3 hub and get average 500mb into the house. tv keeps spooling and I am getting around 10% or less of the speed from the hub. My contract ends in April and debating between downgrading my speed so I pay less since I am not actually able to get the WiFi speed I would expect.
I do realise that there will be a difference between the hub speed and the speed into the Wi-Fi devices.
Try to get all 3 booster pods to hopefully improve the actual speed to my devices. Which I think it would be a miracle based on my decades of VM customer experience.
Or leave VM and go to BT/EE or another supplier.
I originally wanted to pay a bit more and get the 1gb speed to ensure that I got a good speed but that is unlikely to happen now.
I would also like VM to come and correctly fix the cable box to my outside wall after botching the initial box installation.
Any help to resolve this would be appreciated as would not to look elsewhere.
on 01-03-2024 20:12
Get this and be set for many years with hub in modem mode
on 01-03-2024 20:20
@legacy1 wrote:Get this and be set for many years with hub in modem mode
You are wasting your breath. These kind of customers don't expect to pay a penny more to get decent Wi-Fi across their home, even though their contract is for the speed to the HUB over the VM network, not full speed to wireless devices. Cheap rented kit is the way forward!
on 01-03-2024 22:03
One thing you should certainly not do is increase the contract speed as you mentioned. It will not improve the WiFi speed at all.
on 02-03-2024 10:18
@jpeg1 wrote:One thing you should certainly not do is increase the contract speed as you mentioned. It will not improve the WiFi speed at all.
This, sadly is often sold on these Forums as a solution to weak Wifi.
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on 02-03-2024 10:31
Buffering on TV streaming can be a problem of the TV, once the apps stop being updated it may not be long before problems start to show up.