Virgin Media Discussion Thread

Journey said:
I get 600-900Mbps down, 70 Mbps up and not a single day of down time, ping is 15-30ms very little jitter and I am now paying £3 per month for totally unlimited data. :)
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With what hardware, think best we have is 4g. That's worse than VM tho, other than marginally faster upload and monthly cost. :)
 
sandys said:
Seems odd as I stream 4K loads and I don't think I have seen it take more than 70Mb when doing it, so you'd think 100Mb would be enough, of course if you have other things going on within the network too 100Mb doesn't give much margin.

Did you update/clear DNS cache etc?
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Yup as I reboot the FW earlier in the week, so the cache was cleared etc.

I'll post on their Fackbook page later to ask why the streaming is soo ***** :) compared with Vodafone.

I'll review my kit setup again tonight, but had zero issues when on Vodafone. Unifi (yeah I know) pfsense/Untangle.
 
chroniclard said:
With what hardware, think best we have is 4g. That's worse than VM tho, other than marginally faster upload and monthly cost. :)
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A standard Huawei CPE Pro router/modem.

It's worse how? I dumped a 300Mbps Virgin connection over a year ago and have had higher speeds for less cost, and less service disruption. Virgin couldn't offer 1Gbps until Sept/Oct and they wanted £62 a month, that is the equivalent of 20.666 months vs what I am paying now.

20 months for the price of 1, with a slightly slower download speed...
 
Scope said:
I've just swapped my Hub3 for a Hub4.. All good so far, however I am unable to access the Hub4 when in Modem mode.. It is meant to change the IP to 192.168.100.1 (like the Hub3) but I cant Ping nor go to its webpage..
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Trying again.. Does anybody know the IP of the Hub4 when in Modem Mode?

** updated which mode I was after :)
 
Journey said:
A standard Huawei CPE Pro router/modem.

It's worse how? I dumped a 300Mbps Virgin connection over a year ago and have had higher speeds for less cost, and less service disruption. Virgin couldn't offer 1Gbps until Sept/Oct and they wanted £62 a month, that is the equivalent of 20.666 months vs what I am paying now.

20 months for the price of 1, with a slightly slower download speed...
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It's cheaper that's all, most people can get 1gb now and sadly I barely get 4g nevermind 5g. :cry:
 
chroniclard said:
It's cheaper that's all, most people can get 1gb now and sadly I barely get 4g nevermind 5g. :cry:
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I've had no downtime. I had days with Virgin in the space of 3 months I had 4 whole days with no internet access at all, and over 12 months it was silly. So no it isn't just cheaper.
 
Journey said:
I've had no downtime. I had days with Virgin in the space of 3 months I had 4 whole days with no internet access at all, and over 12 months it was silly. So no it isn't just cheaper.
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The downtime is luck of the draw really, I have had downtime on Three, Sky FTTC and VM, VM has had more over the period of time but the others aren't faultless.

I seem to match my VM connection with 5G and am tempted to cut the cord next year as we also watch mostly streaming services as like yourself my 5G is good, not so much on my hardware but the capability is there if we go by what the new iPhone can get which is ~1Gb/100Mb, my 5G router seems to fluctuate at 5-700 and 50up (VN007) still decent, latency wise VM and 5G have been equally variable but pose no impact to my interactive work on trials.

Only thing I haven't tested yet is a landline over 5G, that's something I want to look at as we still want to run DECT phones and have a seperate house number.
 
Journey said:
I've had no downtime. I had days with Virgin in the space of 3 months I had 4 whole days with no internet access at all, and over 12 months it was silly. So no it isn't just cheaper.
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Other than the recent hub PSU debacle mines been very stable. So other than cost no reason to go 5g, though will try it if it ever comes round here. :)
 
Scope said:
Yes I though so.. But mine is no longer responding on that IP.. Everything works though.. strange.
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After upgrading from SH3 to SH4 both in modem mode I had the same issue. I tried the usual work arounds for modem GUI access (as its on the WAN side) but no joy. In the end some traffic monitoring showed its making some odd requests (not responses) to the router during GUI connection which get blocked as they should but then it fails to continue responding to the outgoing web GUI requests.

The fix was to allow its IP address to connect in from the WAN whenever I need to access its GUI. Interestingly one firmware version did seem to solve this but then another update broke it again.

This also depends on your router/firewall and as a quick test try connecting directly to another SH4 port with your a device on the same 192.168.100.x network and see if the GUI now works.

It's also annoying that the SH4 no longer has an SMNP API like the SH3 which I was using to monitor single levels and notify me if they go out of range. However there was a security flaw that allowed unauthenticated access so an external web site could get data including your real WAN IP even when on a VPN (unless set to block local traffic) and rather than fix it they seem to have just removed it.
 
wifi on VM router is awful and my household are fed up and upset about this most times, im fed up with it all, so can anyone recommend an alternative router?
 
mercyless said:
wifi on VM router is awful and my household are fed up and upset about this most times, im fed up with it all, so can anyone recommend an alternative router?
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Archer C6 V3.2, can be had for £35, I get ~500Mbps + on 5Ghz.
If you want to spend more, go for an EAP245/EAP610, imo it's a waste spending the extra unless you need POE / faster speeds than what I mentioned.
 
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