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This message was authored by: Ahridan

Broadband dropping constantly

Its not all the time, and it can go hours or days before it happens again, but my broadband has been dropping constantly for the alst few weeks. Sometimes its multiple times in an a few minutes, to the point of nearly 30 mins of broken time, other times it might happen 3 times a day but over the coarse of the entire day. Its incredibly frustrating when im trying to work/game and i just drop out and lose all progress all the time, because it makes doing anything a risk as to whether ill lose it or not with a disconnect. Its at the point that im ready to jump ship in any hopes of fixing this

The lights go as follows

  1. Internet light off / Voice amber
  2. Internet flashing amber / Voice amber
  3. Internet amber / Voice amber
  4. Internet green / Voice amber
  5. Internet and voice green

My PC is connected to the Sky router via ethernet, so i know its a issue with the router or my broadband in general, as our phones will lose wifi also. And our household only has two mobiles, a pc and laptop, and firestick connected on the network, which id say is far less than a normal household so its not like that should be the cause either. When i run the broadband tests from the Sky app, it always come back with there being no known issues in my area, however 2 out of the last 3 times its gone down, and ive run it, it has come up with "An engineer needs to fix the problem" though this comes up after im reconnected to the internet and only comes up once the broadband test wants to try to increase my speeds, and also this issue has been happening for weeks if not months, and this message never popped up before this.

 

Ill be away the next couple weeks though so ill have to wait to see if the engineer does indeed fix it after i return and arrange a date, unless there is another way to fix this problem

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This message was authored by: JimM1

Re: Broadband dropping constantly

@Ahridan If you get time post your hub stat's from the link below.

 

How to read your Sky Hub statistics

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This message was authored by: Ahridan

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Here are my hub stats

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This message was authored by: JimM1

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@Ahridan From your stat's you posted, time to call sky, have them run the diagnostic they will hopefully see you have a noisy line, and arrange for an Engineer to fix. Not sure if you have a newer style master socket and a old ADSL filter lying around, if so you could try connecting up to the test socket to see if any better and eliminate any internal of master socket issues.

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Re: Broadband dropping constantly

I have an engineer coming today so I'll update this if it fixes it 

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Engineer came, and i had the same issue later that day, so ill contact sky and pass over the diagnostics and info on the problem im having

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@Ahridan What did the Engineer say to you when he was there to fix the fault!

This message was authored by: Nimbob

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Hi there, I’ve escalated your post to our Community Messaging team who will invite you to a private chat shortly and help you with this.

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Here's more information on how Community Messaging works - Escalating-a-post-to-a-Sky-expert 

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Thanks for escalating this. We’ve sent @Ahridan an invite to chat.

Please be aware conversations automatically close if there is no response within 48 hours.

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Perfect thanks, ill start the conversation later today once im back from work

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He just said he pulled back the wires because they looked worn/short, and then swapped out the box or just the front panel, i cant remember

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@Ahridan Your post was escallated to sky for assistance, so go that way now!

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