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Bloody fucking Virgin Media FFS…
Looks like the sporadic horrendous packet loss could be linked to a third-party monitoring service called SamKnows RealSpeed that they have on their proprietary routers which you cannot turn off (because fuck you). Technical support wait times? 40 minutes. Cancellation info wait time? 30 minutes.
• https://community.virginmedia.com/discussions/Speed/2gb2gb-fibre---interruptions-hourly---samknows-realspeed/5576770
• https://community.virginmedia.com/discussions/Wireless/packet-loss/5489734/replies/5545976
• https://community.virginmedia.com/discussions/Setup/turn-off-the-samknows-speed-tests-on-my-line-/5621655
• https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-samknows-cloudflare-platform/
@aral is this active even in bridge mode?
@andrewg Reportedly not.
@andrewg Mind you getting it into that mode is apparently a hassle in and of itself. Requires them to assign an ipv4 address etc. https://www.reddit.com/r/VirginMedia/comments/1ah1boq/hub_5x_working_modem_mode/
@aral ah, I have one of the older routers, it’s been running in modem mode for a few years now. 
