Virgin Media Discussion Thread
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Soldato
I'm baffled by mine, it's been in modem mode since installation and getting 375mbps solid. Today there was an outage and when it came back up the hub was syncing at a lower speed. After an hour and a half on hold to VM they asked me to factory reset the HH3 and connect to it in router mode.
In router mode it syncs back at a higher speed and speed test shows 375mbps, putting it back into modem mode it syncs at the higher rate but it's still only getting 200mbps on speed tests.
I know this sounds like it's an internal network issue but it was absolutely fine right up to the point of VM dropping out.
In router mode it syncs back at a higher speed and speed test shows 375mbps, putting it back into modem mode it syncs at the higher rate but it's still only getting 200mbps on speed tests.
I know this sounds like it's an internal network issue but it was absolutely fine right up to the point of VM dropping out.
Soldato
Acquired Downstream Channel (Hz)
331000000
Locked
Ranged Upstream Channel (Hz)
39399951
Locked
Provisioning State
Online
Channel Frequency (Hz) Power (dBmV) SNR (dB) Modulation Channel ID
1 331000000 8 40 256 qam 25
2 203000000 7.9 40 256 qam 9
3 211000000 8 40 256 qam 10
4 219000000 7.8 40 256 qam 11
5 227000000 8 40 256 qam 12
6 235000000 7.6 40 256 qam 13
7 243000000 7.3 40 256 qam 14
8 251000000 6.9 40 256 qam 15
9 259000000 6.1 40 256 qam 16
10 267000000 6.1 40 256 qam 17
11 275000000 6.8 40 256 qam 18
12 283000000 7 40 256 qam 19
13 291000000 7.5 40 256 qam 20
14 299000000 7.9 40 256 qam 21
15 307000000 7.5 40 256 qam 22
16 315000000 8 40 256 qam 23
17 323000000 8 40 256 qam 24
18 371000000 8.1 40 256 qam 26
19 379000000 8 40 256 qam 27
20 387000000 7.8 40 256 qam 28
21 395000000 7.3 40 256 qam 29
22 403000000 7.5 40 256 qam 30
23 411000000 7.4 40 256 qam 31
24 419000000 7 40 256 qam 32
That's my DS stream stats
331000000
Locked
Ranged Upstream Channel (Hz)
39399951
Locked
Provisioning State
Online
Channel Frequency (Hz) Power (dBmV) SNR (dB) Modulation Channel ID
1 331000000 8 40 256 qam 25
2 203000000 7.9 40 256 qam 9
3 211000000 8 40 256 qam 10
4 219000000 7.8 40 256 qam 11
5 227000000 8 40 256 qam 12
6 235000000 7.6 40 256 qam 13
7 243000000 7.3 40 256 qam 14
8 251000000 6.9 40 256 qam 15
9 259000000 6.1 40 256 qam 16
10 267000000 6.1 40 256 qam 17
11 275000000 6.8 40 256 qam 18
12 283000000 7 40 256 qam 19
13 291000000 7.5 40 256 qam 20
14 299000000 7.9 40 256 qam 21
15 307000000 7.5 40 256 qam 22
16 315000000 8 40 256 qam 23
17 323000000 8 40 256 qam 24
18 371000000 8.1 40 256 qam 26
19 379000000 8 40 256 qam 27
20 387000000 7.8 40 256 qam 28
21 395000000 7.3 40 256 qam 29
22 403000000 7.5 40 256 qam 30
23 411000000 7.4 40 256 qam 31
24 419000000 7 40 256 qam 32
That's my DS stream stats
Not bothered to check tbh, had VM for many decades, so I know if their service status page is down its due to millions clicking on it so they're working on the issue.
The only support page that works is here :
https://downdetector.co.uk/status/virgin-media/
If you click on your area, you can read the comments and many had the same issue as myself, yoyo service or up and down or disconnect and reconnect.
Clearly they're feeling the strain last 2 days !
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Anyone in Leigh area, friend in Wigan say's his is fine. Tho I am having any issue's like bad high ping on discord, I reply to someone on there and it stays grey for like 9 seconds then it posts, pages slow loading and images not loading. Speed checks vary, like virgin speedtest times out half way through download then I retry and it does the download fully then shows nothing on upload or other way round if I try again. Always bottom left hand corner of page loading it says "establishing a secure connection" and lingers on that for ages until page loads and it's usually instant. Youtube circle spinny thing... I'm on 350mb package and never had such poor connection, it's always been rock solid stable.
It's beginning to make me itch now.
It's beginning to make me itch now.
See my 2 post right above yours, what you have described it pretty much what many are getting still now even for the past 2 days.
You can tell when there is an issue since the Virgin Media status sites saying oops could not display, I find it's easier to go here :
https://downdetector.co.uk/status/virgin-media/
Click your area and read the comments and check the graph with hours, I can see from 8am-12pm(now) VM went belly up. I am assuming people are working from home and the demand just cracked VM in my area.
Hopefully VM are on it and fix it soon.
I do love a good distro
This is with frugalusenet.com, £4.09 per month and as fast/faster then giganews or xsusenet. (my previous providers)
£3.86 right here right now, not bad at all!! Just grabbed one, then I can set 150 connections in nzbget and see what sort of magic happens with these new Linux distros
Soldato
Good man
Sometimes less is more so don't be too quick to jump straight into 150 connections, mine saturates by M500 connection with 50.
Sometimes less is more so don't be too quick to jump straight into 150 connections, mine saturates by M500 connection with 50.
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Good man
Sometimes less is more so don't be too quick to jump straight into 150 connections, mine saturates by M500 connection with 50.
Indeed, usually get errors if you try and max out anyway - am I reading it right that you get 50 max on the main servers and the other 50 is on the “back up” server? Which only has a 1TB allowance?
I’m going to try get as close as possible to that magic 10Gbps
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Does the Virgin hub 3.0 support POE - power over Ethernet?
Getting an Access point, but would be better if don't have too plug it in.
Getting an Access point, but would be better if don't have too plug it in.
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Nope. You'll need to use a PoE injector or switch.
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Thank you.
Anyone here used
TP-Link AC1350 Wireless Access Point?
We've good 500mb internet.
What is coverage like? Can it be put on middle floor and give good signal too floor above?
Anyone here used
TP-Link AC1350 Wireless Access Point?
We've good 500mb internet.
What is coverage like? Can it be put on middle floor and give good signal too floor above?
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Soldato
Just for closure my issue was resolved by factory resetting my Draytek. I flashed it as well because there was improvements to the throughput when not using hardware acceleration. Back up to 380Mbps, don't really understand what happened though but to be fair it needed a factory reset as it still had the FTTC BT profile in there and whilst I doubt it was causing issues it's never a bad idea to go from a clean slate.
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Anyone? Also I'm confused if it comes with POE adapter, seen some sites saying it does.
Looking at the TP-Link website - https://www.tp-link.com/uk/business-networking/ceiling-mount-ap/eap225/#specifications - it says its included:
Ceiling mounted AP’s are designed to provide coverage below them, not above.
It's not a directional beam so should be fine.
While the azimuth is not directional in the sense you are suggesting, what you say isn’t correct - ceiling mounted AP’s provide relatively poor coverage above, that’s ignoring the metal mounting plate/ceiling/floor directly above.
See here: https://help.ui.com/hc/en-us/articles/115012664088-UniFi-Introduction-to-Antenna-Radiation-Patterns
‘Since most UniFi access points are designed to be mounted on the ceiling or wall, the signal has been optimized for the direction opposite of the mounting side or in the direction facing the U symbol. For that reason, Ubiquiti has opted to exclude the elevation from 90 - 270.’