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Kidsneedwifi
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I have been with VM for twenty years

I pay about £80 a month for just BB, I have volt

I get nowhere near the speeds promised , sometimes 350 but usually less

VM turned out to investigate and fitted a new cable into my house last week

speeds have now dropped to under a hundred

I feel very disappointed in VM, I never ring up asking for a price reduction and would rather not leave but sometimes you feel like a mug?

 

 

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jbrennand
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See this...

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Wifi speeds will always vary across your property.  Can we check first… are your speed issues only evident on wifi connections or do you see them at the same times on devices connected on ethernet cables? If you don't know, can you check on one to help diagnose whether it is just a wifi issue or it could be network connection/Hub related?

What Hub model is it? What are the various Hub lights showing/doing when this happens if a Hub3 is the base light a steady white(ish) or flashing green?

Report back on wired speeds


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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.

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jbrennand
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See this...

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Wifi speeds will always vary across your property.  Can we check first… are your speed issues only evident on wifi connections or do you see them at the same times on devices connected on ethernet cables? If you don't know, can you check on one to help diagnose whether it is just a wifi issue or it could be network connection/Hub related?

What Hub model is it? What are the various Hub lights showing/doing when this happens if a Hub3 is the base light a steady white(ish) or flashing green?

Report back on wired speeds


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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.

Martyn
Superfast

£80 a month is too much, you must be out of contract?? 1gig is only £33 (m500 volted)

Connection: Virgin FTTP Gig2 (XGSPON)

Hi John

Thanks for your answer, I have just tested and these are my speeds today ( this from a service that says I will get 1000MBs

Wired download 52.72 mbs, wired upload 8.17 mbs

WiFi download 25.84   wifi upload. 44.95 

I am on Hub 4, they have replaced it recently ( BTW not with a new one, it was clearly a very used one)

Lights steady white

 

 

Thanks Martyn, I have been with VM 18 years and have clearly made the mistake of trusting them. BIG< HUGE mistake with VM

jbrennand
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@Kidsneedwifi wrote:

Wired download 52.72 mbs, wired upload 8.17 mbs

 

Lights steady white

 


Is that on an old ethernet cable?  Can you try it on a new Cat6a one as old ones often fail and drop connection speeds to <100 - I have had several do that.

Are you on the 1GB package?  You must be out of contract and able to negotiate a much better deal and qualify for their wifi "guarantee" - but dont do that yet till the issues are sorted out

https://www.virginmedia.com/wifi-max

Lets see your connection data - can you do this...

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In your browser’s URL box type in http://192.168.0.1 (or http://192.168.100.1 - if in modem mode) (DONT click these links) - and hit return. No need to log in - just click on the “Router Status” icon/text at bottom-middle (Hub3/4/5) or top/right (SH’s) - of the Login page.
Then… Navigate to these “data pages” and just copy/paste the normal “Formatted Text” (not images) 3 FULL sets of data onto here – 2 tables from the Downstream, 2 from the Upstream, & the Network Logs pages. Don't worry too much about the formatting it can be easily read & DON’T include personal data or MAC addresses - blank them out - if you copy/paste the data, the board software will do this for you (you may need to click the "submit" button again). If character limits are “exceeded” - just do two posts

Also, If you haven’t already, set up a free, secure and “offlsite” - “Broadband Quality Monitor” 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.

jpeg1
Alessandro Volta

Just to add my voice to the chorus. VM have certainly taken advantage of your good nature in not renegotiating your contract. You are paying twice what you should. 

I suggest you find out what a competitor would charge, phone the 'thinking of leaving us' line, and demand that they match it. Consider also whether you really need that 1Gbps connection, many people have it because it's the best available, but few ever make full use of it. 

- jpeg1
My name is NOT Alessandro. That's just a tag Virginmedia sticks on some contributors. Please ignore it.

Thanks Jpeg1, very useful

Thank you very much John

check your speed here https://www.samknows.com/realspeed/

Connection: Virgin FTTP Gig2 (XGSPON)