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WiFi speeds drop at night?

rubra
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So Useually we get very fast wifi at 200-300mbps, but when I run the test past 1am it’s ridiculously slow at around 20mbps i can never get it to be fast at night which sucks because that’s when we use it the most

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Adduxi
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Run the FULL tests on this VM speed testing site during the day and at 1am and post the results.

www.samknows.com/realspeed

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jbrennand
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To monitor the state of your connection and see if it is being affected over time, set up a free, secure and “offlsite” - “Broadband Quality Monitor” (BQM) to continually monitor the state of your connection and record any true network dropouts , latency issues, packet drops, etc - it will thus allow you to differentiate between those and simple wifi dropouts. It does it 24/7/365 and it keeps a visual record of any/all of your network disconnections, useful data to have to match to the Network logs (in your Hub settings) and also in discussions with VM - note it will take a few hours to start seeing a sensible picture - post up the “link” to the “share live graph”. Click the lower link (Share Live Graph) then, click generate. Copy the text in the Direct Link box, beware, there may be more text than you can see. On here click the Link icon (2 links chain to the left of the camera icon) In the URL box paste the link you copied and then click OK
https://www.thinkbroadband.com/broadband/monitoring/quality


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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.

legacy1
Alessandro Volta

Strange must be someone running a jammer at night unless you get slow speed by wire too?

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