How to connect Cat6 cables in 1 room to Hub5 in another
Hi, I'm currently nearing the end of a home renovation project where we've had a utility room built, featuring a cupboard that I've asked the builders to run Cat6 cables to. These cat6 cables connect to ports in rooms of the house which will allow us to have a hardwired connection to various devices. Currently our Hub5 sits in our lounge next door to the utility room. What would be the best way to connect the cat6 cables to the Hub5? Can I use a wireless router, linked to a network switch for the cables to plug into in the utility room, and connect the router to the Hub5 wirelessly if I put the Hub5 in modem mode? Would this work or is there a better solution? Many thanks!Google Wifi Drops Each Time Broadband Drops
I've used Google Nest Wifi for many years with my current Virign Media router (in modem mode), but I have noticed through this time that when my broadband connection drops it also makes my local wifi connection turn off too. In my mind the way it should work (and I am sure I have observed other home networks operating this way) is that the home lan (wifi and wired) operate independantly of the internet connection. Why would a user still not be able to continue to use local LAN resources (via wifi and wired) just because the gateway has stopped working. How do people who use things like plex (via a local wifi connection) continue to do so locally? I have home automation like Hubitat and Home Assistant that are wired into my lan. When my broadband connection fails these continue to work fine on the LAN but when the broadband drops my wifi drops and I cannot even see a wifi connection is even present. Its very frustrating, if I wish to access my hubs or network locations on my network to administer them I have to connect a wired connection to my laptop into my switch in order to do so. I'm not 100% sure but I think external and local ought to operate independently, or at least local wifi should continue to operate like the local wired lan does and continue to be able to utilise local resources like shared folders etc? Welcome others thoughts and experiences My setup is as follows 1 Google Wifi Access point in my house with the virigin broadband router in modem mode connected to it in one port, the other port connects to my lan/switch. I have a wired network that goes out to my office with another Google Wifi router connected to it via cable. I have 3 Google Wifi wireless pods around the house. These work fine with only an occasional reboot when they show they have a weak signal. My network operates on 192.168.86.X The Router LAN Address is set to 192.168.86.1 I can recreate the problem just by turning the power off to the Virgin router (in modem mode), as soon as I do this all wifi connections drop. A simple example of the issue I have having is if I am using WIFI fine but pull the plug on the virgin router (in modem mode) all wifi devices across my network fall off the wifi - all wired devices continue to work fine. ThanksBad WiFi but normal download speed
Hello, I’m having a very frustrating issue. I live in a 2 up, 2 down with one other person and have M350 fibre Upon running speed tests, I am mostly getting about 370mbps, however my internet is dreadful. If we are both scrolling on our phones it is incredible slow and when working from home I need to use an ethernet to get a decent connection. we have had a technician out twice but they have been unable to find any issues. It’s honestly dreadful. Surely 350mbps is enough to handle 2 people. also, WM Connect is unable to find my hub, no matter how may times I go through the set up or reset the hub. I don’t know what to do and unable to find any answers plesse can someone help with some form of solution.High ping, Random disconnections - Phone support states it's "Fine"
Hello, For a few months now I've noticed my internet becoming more and more erratic, I know around midnight theres a chance an update is pushed to the hub which knocks it off for a few moments which never used to be a problem but lately the hub will take several minutes to fully come back online. It will kick my devices offline, they lose connection to the internet first and then moments later it loses the WiFi signal, it regains the signal after a bit but then loses the signal again and again until it just randomly stabilises, this hasn't been the norm so it's odd and quite frustrating. Secondly, I'm noticing large ping spikes, which doesn't affect most things but certainly does effect gaming in a very negative way (30ms ping to 700ms ping spikes which lasts a few seconds and constantly happens then stops at random for a few minutes). I've had a talk on the support call line, the agent kept telling me everything looked fine and was operating normally, I raised my concerns about the errors and the power levels of the Downstream/Upstream channels and the fact that Virgins own website states: Broadband connection issues found Please wait for 15 minutes while we reconnect the WiFi Hub to our network. When I log in on the site and try to check out anything to do with my broadband from the website or the app itself, so how could it possibly be "Fine". I've now been told that I'm going to be paying a £25 fee for a technician to come out to my address, I assume because In their eyes, I must be imagining these ping spikes and issues I'm encountering, or they just refuse to acknowledge the problem. My network log is filled with a lot of these: RCS Partial Service;CM-MAC=[redacted];CMTS-MAC=[redacted];CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.0; No Ranging Response received - T3 time-out;CM-MAC=[redacted];CMTS-MAC=[redacted];CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.0; Lost MDD Timeout;CM-MAC=[redacted];CMTS-MAC=[redacted];CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.0; These errors repeat throughout the day, every single day. Here's the Downstream/Upstream stats also: Downstream bonded channels Channel Frequency (Hz) Power (dBmV) SNR (dB) Modulation Channel ID 1 203000000 0.2 38 256 qam 9 2 139000000 -0.4 38 256 qam 1 3 147000000 0 38 256 qam 2 4 155000000 0.4 38 256 qam 3 5 163000000 0.5 38 256 qam 4 6 171000000 0.9 38 256 qam 5 7 179000000 0.7 38 256 qam 6 8 187000000 0.9 38 256 qam 7 9 195000000 0.5 38 256 qam 8 10 275000000 1.2 40 256 qam 18 11 283000000 1.2 40 256 qam 19 12 291000000 1.2 38 256 qam 20 13 299000000 1.2 38 256 qam 21 14 307000000 1.2 40 256 qam 22 15 315000000 1.5 40 256 qam 23 16 323000000 1.7 38 256 qam 24 17 331000000 1.9 38 256 qam 25 18 339000000 2.5 38 256 qam 26 19 347000000 3 38 256 qam 27 20 355000000 3.2 40 256 qam 28 21 363000000 3.2 40 256 qam 29 22 371000000 3 40 256 qam 30 23 379000000 3.2 38 256 qam 31 24 387000000 3 40 256 qam 32 Downstream bonded channels Channel Locked Status RxMER (dB) Pre RS Errors Post RS Errors 1 Locked 38.9 48 0 2 Locked 38.6 54423 0 3 Locked 38.6 79676 345677 4 Locked 38.9 130935 263022 5 Locked 38.9 356 0 6 Locked 38.9 130 0 7 Locked 38.9 77 0 8 Locked 38.9 44 0 9 Locked 38.9 74 0 10 Locked 40.3 26 0 11 Locked 40.9 22 0 12 Locked 38.9 10 0 13 Locked 38.9 5 0 14 Locked 40.3 5 0 15 Locked 40.3 6 0 16 Locked 38.9 5 0 17 Locked 38.6 4 0 18 Locked 38.9 12 0 19 Locked 38.9 56 0 20 Locked 40.3 8 0 21 Locked 40.9 18 0 22 Locked 40.3 4 0 23 Locked 38.9 5 0 24 Locked 40.3 4 0 Upstream bonded channels Channel Frequency (Hz) Power (dBmV) Symbol Rate (ksps) Modulation Channel ID 1 49600000 55.3 5120 64 qam 1 Upstream bonded channels Channel Channel Type T1 Timeouts T2 Timeouts T3 Timeouts T4 Timeouts 1 ATDMA 0 0 0 0Internet frequently disconnecting when using RAS
Hi I have been advised by my work IT to contact Virgin about this. I work from home and connect to a RAS. I very recently got a replacement router due to a fault on the previous one, and shortly after that I have started having connection issues when connected to a RAS. All my personal devices are fine, it's just the RAS (work laptop) that keeps disconnecting. Can this be investigated, please? Thanks
Internet connection keeps dropping
For the last couple of weeks we’ve had intermittent problems with the Internet connection dropping. This afternoon is a case in point. Internet connection lost 6 times in a little over 2.5 hours. 4 of these were for less than a minute, but two were for 4 minutes and 7 minutes. Hub restart doesn’t seem to have much of an effect. I have a VM hub 5. For all of these losses, the hub light remained white. Usually, if there is an area outage, the Hub light goes red. This is not acceptable downtime when WFH. Ideas please / pull your finger out VM!
