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Old Feb 10, 2016 | 08:31 PM
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Thats the same as last one
http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/i/1541634264
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Old Feb 10, 2016 | 08:33 PM
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See thats better but mine didnt last
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Old Feb 10, 2016 | 08:34 PM
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Take it it's the 5g connection it's offering 2g and 5g what did you use ?
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Old Feb 10, 2016 | 08:36 PM
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Yes 5g
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Old Feb 10, 2016 | 08:45 PM
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Originally Posted by peter zippy reid
Yes 5g
Two iPads two iPhones a MacBook Pro Apple TV and smart TVs and still giving 100 mb + will monitor it see how it goes
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Old Feb 10, 2016 | 08:46 PM
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Hope it stays stable for you mate
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Old Feb 10, 2016 | 08:55 PM
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All I look for is it to be able to stream from YouTube on my iPad to my Marantz music steamer and the old 150 feed would drop out stall etc a long call to virgin and then good for a week then back to stutter and stall. Have a virgin moby sim in iPhone put it off wifi to 3G it plays to the Marantz perfect. So Deffo something Amis with their wifi.
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Old Feb 10, 2016 | 08:58 PM
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My daughter gets kicked from games online as wifi drops her connection its not like its cheap at £51 a month thats with phone line
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Old Feb 10, 2016 | 09:07 PM
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Tell me I am on the XL with any calls unlimited, BT Sports catch up ,on demand etc £89 a month

http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/i/1541678238

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Old Feb 14, 2016 | 06:00 PM
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So wifi is still dropping is there anything i can do about it
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Old Feb 14, 2016 | 06:00 PM
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Plus only getting 30mb on wifi now was getting 186mb
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Old Feb 15, 2016 | 08:37 AM
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Originally Posted by peter zippy reid
Plus only getting 30mb on wifi now was getting 186mb

So the two biggest causes I had when I worked for faults, the device can't support quicker and other things are using the bandwidth.

Disconnect everything from the route and test the speed with a single machine wired to it.

Full speed? then you have ruled out VM being the issues.

Next connect something you know can support quick speeds, like a laptop with an N rated card.

If you aren't getting the speed, then you can look at the channel, distance etc with the router. If still no luck, try and borrow someone else's router, put the router in modem only mode and use the route to test the speed. If it works ok, then call VM and have a new router sent out.

Very rarely the router is the cause, normally PC or settings.
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Old Feb 15, 2016 | 08:44 AM
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Cheers pimmo downloaded a wireless anyliser app to check what channel i was on and other people near me its more the fact is disconnecting and reconnecting
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Old Feb 16, 2016 | 10:27 PM
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Mine is still laggy when gaming and watching stuff on 'Kodi'

Just done a speed test, 2.79mb download


http://beta.speedtest.net/result/5092054738

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Old Feb 17, 2016 | 08:42 AM
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Old Feb 17, 2016 | 09:00 AM
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Made my daughters xbox wired now fine 153mb
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Old Feb 18, 2016 | 07:13 AM
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Originally Posted by peter zippy reid
Made my daughters xbox wired now fine 153mb

So you know the service is ok, the router could still be faulty.
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Old Feb 18, 2016 | 07:53 AM
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I think the router was jumping from 2g to 5g mate as i told my phone to forget 2g and its not dropped again
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Old Feb 18, 2016 | 07:58 AM
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your phone was jumping not the router, most new phones have the ability to detect if the network is poor and switch, I had to disable that on my phone as whenever I got to more than a certain distance from my router, it would jump to 4G. turning it off the connect was fine.
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Ok cheers for info mate
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Old Feb 20, 2016 | 03:26 PM
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Originally Posted by pimmo2000
your phone was jumping not the router, most new phones have the ability to detect if the network is poor and switch, I had to disable that on my phone as whenever I got to more than a certain distance from my router, it would jump to 4G. turning it off the connect was fine.

I had that. iPhones certainly give issues with this.

They especially do not like it if both the 2.4GHz and 5GHz networks have the same SSID, as I used to have (macs and PCs were fine)...the iPhone (6S) just would have a paddy connecting and jumping between them. Now my 2.4GHz and 5GHz networks have separate names its resolved the issue; can still switch between them though, but seems to prefer being on the 2.4GHz.

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I had that. iPhones certainly give issues with this.

They especially do not like it if both the 2.4GHz and 5GHz networks have the same SSID, as I used to have (macs and PCs were fine)...the iPhone (6S) just would have a paddy connecting and jumping between them. Now my 2.4GHz and 5GHz networks have separate names its resolved the issue; can still switch between them though, but seems to prefer being on the 2.4GHz.

Which is odd, as the 5g should in theory be the cleaner connection.
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Old Feb 22, 2016 | 09:38 AM
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Best using the vm superhub in modem mode and buying a decent router, massive improvement and no dropping or cutting out, im getting a nice steady 208 mb on wifi with mine now.
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.....

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Old Apr 9, 2016 | 11:20 PM
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show off!!!

I'm getting 2 meg wifi and 20 meg wired. I've been told it's due to an 'upgrade' in my area. Should be finished by 27th, so we shall see
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Old Apr 14, 2016 | 01:18 PM
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Originally Posted by pimmo2000
Which is odd, as the 5g should in theory be the cleaner connection.
I thought that.

But I guess with Apple, they have to be different for the sake of being different.
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Old Apr 14, 2016 | 01:21 PM
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From the day i upgraded my kids keep moaning about getting kicked from xbox
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