moof
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Re: Starting a discussion elsewhere
same here! ws able to post in COMMUNITY NATTER but no place else, currently awaiting 'approval' ?! Have tried to create a new post in various subs on here and there is no START A DISCUSSION button?! Google searched why there was no option and found a thread that linked to Community Natter and oddly THAT forum has the option available! Then I checked what happened if I logged out and bizarrely the button appears! (see below) tried dumping cookies for Virgin site, but that hasn't solved my START A DISCUSSION issue. All i wanted to do was post to discuss why I keep getting intermittent drops out that appear to be Google DNS related and not router outages.... {sigh} whats going on {confused}can't create new posts if I'm signed in?
Have tried to create a new post in various subs on here and there is no START A DISCUSSION button?! Google searched why there was no option and found a thread that linked to Community Natter and oddly THAT forum has the option available! Then I checked what happened if I logged out and bizarrely the button appears! (see below) tried dumping cookies for Virgin site, but that hasn't solved my START A DISCUSSION issue. All i wanted to do was post to discuss why I keep getting intermittent drops out that appear to be Google DNS related and not router outages.... {sigh} Anyone got a Discussion Starter solution? TIARe: Intermittent broadband since Nov30th
the 'must book' engineer came and went today, nice guy, helpful. Said everything was within spec as far as he was concerned. Could see we'd had a couple of signal spikes earlier in the week and that they could relate to the initial net drops we'd encountered since Nov 30th and the continuing VoIP echos I've had since switching to a CISCO spa 112/BT phones back in 2023. He suspects that networking has probably resolved whatever issues was causing our intermittent outages. He also said his tool was seeing good speeds. explained I suspect my browser wasn't speed testing correctly, and that I'd run a test from another PC on a seperate VLAN only this morning. Was seeing close to paid-for speeds, so I was pretty happy its all working as it should. ....as you see, 878Mbps with a listed max400Mbps firewall. This has been my experience with my last 3 Drayteks, getting way over the listed max throughputs.sudden decline in Mbps being reported by speedtest using Chrome
I routinely check and record my speeds to keep an eye on what I pay for vs what I get... on average I'd say I'm around the 900Mbps mark and happy with that on a 1GB subscription. Have done this for years. ethernet connected, third party router, VM Hub 5 in modem mode But since the turn of the year it fell off the cliff....way down 😕 Initially I opened a VMchat and said my connection speed was looking slow and they said "we can see an issue with your router we'll arrange an engineer" ...the date set was the same day I had also got info they were doing works in my area midnight-3am. I also wasn't convinced the VMagent realised the Hub5 was in modem mode. However after coming off the VMchat I ran the speedtest in an alternate browser and got a VERY different result, so cancelled the engineer. Nearly double! Chrome was around the 370/98 Mbps mark, Safari 782/100 Mbps. Same computer, same ethernet connecting, two different browsers. ....to throw a huge spanner in my investigation I was on a Win11 ethernet computer in another room and Chrome gave me a result of 209/856 (yes - upload was massive compared to download 😳). But I digress. Digging a little, I'm down the rabbit hole of turning off extensions in Chrome, clearing cache, fresh profile yadda yadda but no dice. If I use Chrome I'm seeing a HUGE decline in the reported speeds Anyone else?
