Speed Dropped From 600 to 70mbps

[Martin_French]

So I have a home network set up using TPLink Deco M5s, works beautifully, and massively more stable. 

For the past week our speed has been capped at 95mbps, regularly only seeing 70mbps. 

call centre is useless as always closed when I need to speak to someone, and the website is sending in circles. 

Turned off all deco. Switched back to VM WiFi only, 72mbps. 

Anyone experiencing similar? I’m about 5 minutes from calling SkyTV to come replace the lot, especially with an 8.8% increase coming!!! 

[Adduxi]

Sounds like the device has negotiated a 10/100Mb connection for whatever reason?  Try a 60 second reset of the Hub as below.

60 second factory pinhole reset ;
Remove any ethernet cables from the Hub and hold the pinhole reset switch for 60 seconds. Do NOT reboot the Hub, just let it do it's thing. Note you will need the passwords from the bottom of the Hub afterwards, so make sure they are legible. NOTE this will remove any custom settings you may have set in the Hub, and they will all have to be setup again.

[Client62]

With the Hub in Router mode the link below
tests the service speed to the Hub & between the Hub to your device.

https://www.samknows.com/realspeed/

Once the test begins click on: Run full test to see all the stats.


For a cable connected device, 95Mb/s is usually means a connection has regressed to 100Mb/s,
if 1000Mb/s is expected suspect a network cable fault.

[legacy1]

A reset will be a waste of time test by wire to the hub in modem mode without a router.

[legacy1]

Of course saying that the firmware might rollback so make a note of the version  

[Adduxi]

A pinhole reset can fix many a bug for a while.  I just wish VM would supply a proper cable modem to those who would request it.  I miss my old VMNG300 ......  😉