Hub 5x, 2gig up/down - packet loss / latency / disconnects every 30 mins
Hi, seems I am another victim of this disconnect and packet loss issue with 5x hub and 2gig fiber, which occurs every 30mins, which seems to be caused by 'RealSpeed' checking the speed of my connection (?!). Can someone from support PLEASE stop this from happening to my service? I need this resolved asap as I rely on the connection for WFH, competitive gaming and streaming with friends. The constant disconnects are making all 3 impossible to work with. Here's the issue SOLVED by doing exactly that (getting someone to turn off the auto speed testing): https://community.virginmedia.com/discussions/Wireless/upgraded-to-2gig-and-see-ping-time-outs-and-youtube-buffering/5537915/replies/5546444 It's extremely worrying that I can find many threads nearly 2 years old with this same issue. Waited nearly 6 months for the install due to 4 rescheduled installations - now this... feeling like I should've waited for BT to reach my area. 😢
Recent packet loss and large ping spikes
Hi. I have recently (maybe in the past month or so, unsure when it specifically started) been experiencing random ping spikes and packet loss, making the internet unusable for several minutes, this includes web pages never loading and online games becoming unplayable due to the high ping and packet loss. This occurs seemingly at random, for about 2 minutes, and then returns to normal, until the next time it happens. I've been with virgin in my current property for over 2 years and have never had issues like this before, I'd maybe have ping spikes once every 4-5 months for a few seconds, and then return to normal but nothing like this. I am on a wired connection to my router, and as stated above, this has been basically flawless up until about a month ago. I've used thinkbroadband.com to get some graphs for my internet over the past week or so, and you can clearly see where the issues are occurring. I've attached graphs for these dates, in reverse order (not sure why they uploaded like this) Sunday 1st June (Now) -> Saturday 31st May -> etc. etc. -> Monday 26th May I hope someone can help. Cheers [MOD EDIT: Images removed]Packet loss
Been getting packet loss for at least 4 months now consistently , Currently on hub 5 router mode, upgraded plan to Gigabit broadband, changed ethernet cable and tried tp link powerline adapters none of them yet to fix my issue. Notes: Gets alot worse when more people are on the wifi. The later in the day the more packets get lost it seems. (Tests taken at 7pm) currently using an ethernet cable from router to computer for this test.Inconsistent service, delayed/late packets or packet loss (BQM, Waveform, Router Logs provided)
Hi. I have been struggling with an issue for months now, and it progressively keeps getting worse. Broadband speeds are fine, I have the 500m package. I do get consistent 500/50mpbs, however playing online games is unbearable, constant rubber-banding and network inaccuracies, constant ping spikes and packet loss to the servers in and outside of the UK, but of course it gets worse outside of the UK. My current setup consists of this: VM Hub3 in modem mode (almost an 8 year old router) TP-Link Archer C80 Cat 6a ethernet wiring (I do not use WiFi for my PC) Things I have tried already with no fix in sight: Restarting and factory resetting VM Hub3 Restarting and factory resetting Archer C80 Testing over WiFi Isolating connection to my PC only and testing Different ethernet cabling My BQM and Waveform Bufferbloat Test: BQM Waveform Bufferbloat Status Item Status Comments Acquired Downstream Channel (Hz) 330750000 Locked Ranged Upstream Channel (Hz) 36599971 Locked Provisioning State Online Downstream bonded channels Channel Frequency (Hz) Power (dBmV) SNR (dB) Modulation Channel ID 1 330750000 12.8 40 256 qam 25 2 138750000 11 40 256 qam 1 3 202750000 10.8 40 256 qam 9 4 226750000 11.3 40 256 qam 12 5 234750000 11.1 40 256 qam 13 6 258750000 11.8 40 256 qam 16 7 266750000 11.9 40 256 qam 17 8 290750000 12 40 256 qam 20 9 298750000 12.5 40 256 qam 21 10 322750000 12.5 40 256 qam 24 11 338750000 12.8 40 256 qam 26 12 346750000 12.8 40 256 qam 27 13 354750000 13 40 256 qam 28 14 362750000 12.8 40 256 qam 29 15 370750000 13 40 256 qam 30 16 378750000 12.4 40 256 qam 31 17 386750000 12.6 40 256 qam 32 18 394750000 12.6 40 256 qam 33 19 402750000 12.9 40 256 qam 34 20 410750000 13 40 256 qam 35 21 514750000 13 40 256 qam 36 22 522750000 13.5 40 256 qam 37 23 530750000 13 40 256 qam 38 24 538750000 13.4 40 256 qam 39 Downstream bonded channels Channel Locked Status RxMER (dB) Pre RS Errors Post RS Errors 1 Locked 40.3 9 0 2 Locked 40.3 18 0 3 Locked 40.3 8 0 4 Locked 40.9 9 0 5 Locked 40.3 8 0 6 Locked 40.3 7 0 7 Locked 40.3 13 0 8 Locked 40.3 7 0 9 Locked 40.3 0 0 10 Locked 40.9 10 0 11 Locked 40.3 10 0 12 Locked 40.3 6 0 13 Locked 40.9 3 0 14 Locked 40.9 7 0 15 Locked 40.9 6 0 16 Locked 40.3 14 0 17 Locked 40.9 6 0 18 Locked 40.9 7 0 19 Locked 40.3 12 0 20 Locked 40.3 7 0 21 Locked 40.3 13 0 22 Locked 40.9 20 0 23 Locked 40.9 36 0 24 Locked 40.9 47 0
xgs-pon with own router...
Well... Wish I was advised of this during signup. Now cancelled BT which I was happily using (albeit without symmetrical 1Gbps upload), constant 0-8ms ping on games such as Fortnite or to Cloudflare DNS/Adguard DNS and a stable speed over to the "upgrade"..... Can't use my own router reliably, double-NAT, no modem mode (could use PPPoE auth with BT and Sky[Sky needs DHCP Option 61 enabled]), consistent 5-8% packet loss to GeforceNOW (plus the extra 6-10ms latency...), fluctuating download/upload speeds mainly affecting the upload (burst: 700Mbps then drops steadily until the end of the test sometimes as low as 300Mbps). BT had a speed guarantee of 700Mbps, what is it here? Is there any chance of using my own router without their router also being in "router" mode? I've tried everything I can think of to try and get it working and now I refuse to spend anymore time on it when the whole network was fine prior to moving to Virgin xgs-pon. The whole product seems rushed through the door so as to not lose out with new customer take up in new areas... When is this going to change? If it isn't in the next month can I still cancel or what because this is the worst FTTP implementation I've used....?WiFi packet loss and high latency. Ethernet port dead
Recently I have been getting constant packet loss and very high latency while gaming on PS5 over WiFi. It has been going on for a week straight now. I have tried restarting my router and my console to no avail. It may be unrelated, but the ethernet port in the wall by my PS5 no longer provides any connection. Looking for any advice or suggestions. My router logs are below.Persistent packet loss about 15% suddenly started
Last night while gaming I experienced a sudden disconnect, and when it came back I started getting total dropouts ever few seconds. I started monitoring this morning, and I'm getting frequent packet loss despite a good minimum latency. This makes gaming and video calls very difficult. I am on a VM Hub 5 (Gig1 Fibre plan), and am using a Netgear Orbi (RBR50). Any ideas what could be wrong? Is this likely on VM's side or possibly with my hardware? Live BQM (unfortunately I only started it this morning): https://www.thinkbroadband.com/broadband/monitoring/quality/share/8828e6cefc0ae2410c3efac9d109ed00f39b13e5 Pingplotter graphs showing what it's been like on shorter timescales: Any help on what I could check next, or who to contact would be much appreciated.Packet loss
Hello, I've been having packet loss issues for a while now and I have tried contacting Virgin Media via Whatsapp for support, but all that was able to be done was factory resetting the router, which did nothing. I have used multiple programs to try and observe the packet loss and try to figure out whats causing it, and most of the time it seems to be related to ip addresses that end with "network.virginmedia.net". This was with programs such as PingPlotter and WinMTR. I am using a wired connection to the router, and I've tested packet loss on other devices running on WiFi, they are very similar which is unusual considering wired should be better. When running the service status checker that Virgin Media has it always prompts me saying that there is a problem, except there doesn't seem to really be a fix for it, since it always resorts to either a factory reset or a reboot, either of which do nothing. Would appreciate any help or advice. Thank you.Internet keeps cutting out on wired ethernet connection.
On Monday 1st April, the internet was down for everyone in my postcode, it came back on 2nd April at around noon but since then my internet has been randomly cutting out on my PC every few minutes which is connected directly to the Hub4 router via ethernet cable. The task bar in the bottom right does not say I have lost connection to the internet or anything but games and apps such as Discord fully freeze up/cut out so I am definitely getting 100% packet loss or fully losing connection. I've attached two clips showing my issue below, please see the links below, if you aren't familiar with this game it may be a little hard to follow but you can see me lose connection, the characters either freeze or continue to walk in one direction before teleporting to where they're supposed to be. (You can see a red square with a warning symbol in it on the left in the first clip at around 0:04 seconds as well as a lightning bolt symbol which I know means bad/lost connection to the server and at 0:05 there is an icon on the left with 3 orange rectangles that signify packet loss. Same for the second clip. This happens literally every few minutes: https://streamable.com/syphlo https://streamable.com/sjnst7 I've shared my experience both in this forum and on the Virgin Media subreddit over the past couple of weeks but haven't been able to fix the issue I am facing. I will provide my Broadband Quality Monitor below but I don't think the issues are represented on there somehow. https://www.thinkbroadband.com/broadband/monitoring/quality/share/0c17ac529c00d48229d05cbf74cafcee343cba78 I have factory reset my router multiple times since the problems started occuring and even bought a brand new ethernet cable yesterday and even with both of these things taken into account I'm getting the same issues still. I'm thinking about purchasing a brand new coaxial cable too just to be fully sure it's not any of my own equipment. I had ZERO issues prior to the maintenance in my area on April 1st and there isn't any more maintenance scheduled for my area so I'm not sure what's happening. One thing that may be of note or just some strange coincidence is that about a week after the issues started, there was an electric power outage in my area and once the electricity came back on for everyone my internet was actually perfectly fine for about a day before returning to my previous problems. It's been 18 days now and I'm still having issues, any advice of any sort would be very much appreciated and I'd be more than happy to give any further info that is required. Thank you very much everyone.
