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HH6 Signal Drop
16-05-2019 9:26 PM
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Just started having problems with FTTC & BT HH6 Issue seems to be with speed rather than signal strength,
Upstairs desktop & laptop full strength (5 bars) but speed is crawling so slow ookla couldn't even do a speed test
reporting high latency problems, even hard wired laptop to router speed test throwing up some randomly wild figures
at worst 3Mps & Best 38Mps Sometimes test couldn't finish due to upload speed error.
Nothing has changed with hardware & <6 months ago virtually all wiring from pole to phone socket was replaced and service was as good as you like until recently, this has been an occasional problem rearing its head every now & again only fault finding ive done is to swap out router with identical HH6 which cures problem for a while before it pops back again really annoying not least because its sporadic.
Im toying with the idea of splashing out on a shop router as I "think" that's the issue, any help greatly appreciated as its driving me nuts...
Re: HH6 Signal Drop
16-05-2019 9:36 PM
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Re: HH6 Signal Drop
17-05-2019 12:39 AM
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Hi Baldrick
Thx for your reply, yes & no is the answer when router "settles down" after reboot sometimes problem appears to have been fixed only to re appear later, or problem occurs immediately again.
FWIW almost identical problem ended in no internet at all about six months ago and after the legend that is openreach's engineer showed up and stayed virtually all day changing just about everything that could be changed including 3 different routers. He called in the techno wizard who did something (still not sure what) and service was up & running perfectly until now. Also worth noting I'm 300 yards from cabinet and normally get 38/10 all day long.
Re: HH6 Signal Drop
17-05-2019 9:24 AM
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Mr feeling is that it's not the router. Hopefully a Plusnet staffer will come along and show us a radius chart.
I would plug into the BT Test socket, no doubt if you have had previous problems you know how to do this, then if it still does it report a fault.
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Re: HH6 Signal Drop
17-05-2019 12:41 PM - edited 17-05-2019 12:54 PM
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Hi there,
I have tested the line and I could not find any issues with your connection. As shown below your connection has been stable for 13 days and the GEA service test is not detecting any errors.
Test Outcome | Pass |
Test Outcome Code | GTC_FTTC_SERVICE_0000 |
Description | GEA service test completed and no fault found . |
Main Fault Location | OK |
Sync Status | In Sync |
Downstream Speed | 40.0 Mbps |
Upstream Speed | 10.0 Mbps |
Appointment Required | N |
Fault Report Advised | N |
NTE Power Status | PowerOn |
Voice Line Test Result | Pass |
Bridge Tap | Not Detected |
Repetitive Electrical Impulse Noise | Not Detected |
Estimated Line Length In Metres | 210.1 |
Upstream Rate Assessment | Very Good |
Downstream Rate Assessment | Very Good |
Interference Pattern | Not Detected |
Service Impact | No Impact Observed |
Home Wiring Problem | Not Detected |
Technology | VDSL |
Profile Name | 0.128M-40M Downstream, Retransmission Low - 0.128M-10M Upstream, Error Protection Off |
Time Stamp | 2019-05-04T11:45:00 |
Parameters | MIN | MAX | AVG |
Down Stream Line Rate | 39.9 Mbps | 39.9 Mbps | 39.9 Mbps |
Up Stream Line Rate | 9.9 Mbps | 9.9 Mbps | 9.9 Mbps |
Up Time | 899.0 Sec | 900.0 Sec | 899.9 Sec |
Retrains | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Current and Last 15 Minute Bin Performance | ||
Parameters | Last Traffic Count(Upto 15 mins) | Current Traffic Count(Upto 15 mins) |
Start Time Stamp | 2019-05-17T10:21:45Z | 2019-05-17T10:36:45Z |
Ingress Code Violation | 0 | 0 |
Egress Code Violation | 0 | 0 |
Errored Seconds | 0 | 0 |
Severely Errored Seconds | 0 | 0 |
Unavailable Seconds | 0 | 0 |
This is likely to be a wireless interference issue, but just to make that this is the case, If you could please run the BT Speedtester service on here using a wired connection from your PC/Laptop to the router.
Once the initial result is completed please click Further Diagnostics, please type in your phone number and click run diagnostic test. This will run a test and send the results to the server for investigation.
Please let us know how it goes.
Re: HH6 Signal Drop
17-05-2019 1:03 PM
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Have you tried separating the 2.4 and 5GHz bands? See here for the Hub One instructions, the Smarthub 6 process is the same. https://community.plus.net/t5/My-Router/2-4ghz-and-or-5ghz-best-practice/m-p/1351966#M840. Try each band to find the best.
Another thing to try is to use a wifi sniffer app, I use Wifi Analyser on an Android phone. With this you can view your neighbours' transmissions. Check at both your router location and where you use your devices. If necessary go back in to the advanced wireless settings and manually select the quietest channel.
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Re: HH6 Signal Drop
17-05-2019 11:08 PM
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Thanks guys for help, true to form everything today back to normal I'm getting 38/10 all over.
Away over the weekend will run the BT speedtest on my return and report.
Wi Fi analyser shows a lot of congestion on 5g less so on 2.4, was thinking of splitting the frequencies before
May give that a go as well, will that enable me to select broadcast channel as well ?
Will report back
Thx
Re: HH6 Signal Drop
18-05-2019 8:47 AM
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No problem. Let us know how it goes.
I'm not 100% sure what you mean by broadcast channel, if you're referring to broadcasting the wireless network/SSID this should already be enabled by default if you're able to see the WiFi on your devices.
Hope this helps.
Re: HH6 Signal Drop
18-05-2019 9:57 AM
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You have full manual control over which frequency channel you wish to use on both the 2.4 and 5GHz bands. You need to go into the wireless network setting on your devices and select either the 2.4 or 5 GHz band.
Router auto freqency selection only monitors neighbours' transmissions at the router location. Hence the need to check at device locations before manually selecting the best channel. I get totally different results at the front and rear of my property.
The problem with having the two bands synchronised is that some devices spend their time flip flopping between the two bands, which kills wifi performance. I can't get my head around why BT and Plusnet ship their routers with this as the default configuration. The third party routers I have come across (only a few I confess) have come with the bands unsynchronised.
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