Need help with home network

[HeaT]

I'm having connection problems with my home network. Here is my current setup:

 

Virgin Media Hub 3 provides the internet, That is connected to a Netgear R7000. I have a TP-Link SG108E switch connected to that.

 

I have my TV, Virgin media box connected to the Hub 3 using ethernet. The R7000 is in my gaming room. Connected to that is 2 play 1s and a play 5. I then have a Ethernet cable going to the switch which has my main PC, xbox one and second PC connected to.

 

Everything has internet connection but the connection does't seem stable. The xbox one keeps disconnecting on Fifa 18. Kicks me off the EA servers and some times fully off Xbox Live. The Sonos systems seem to keep the connection as music keeps playing fine. My main PC has problems streaming videos on Twitch(buffering) and websites can take some time to load up. 

 

 

Everything was working fine yesterday without the switch, The xbox was connected wireless and the second PC wasn't on the network due to lack of ethernet ports. I'm going to restart everything to see if that fixes the problem If not I'm pretty lost.

 

Here is a speed test from my Main PC

 

 

EDIT - Just restarted everything and the problem is still happening. Websites say "resolving host" and then load up after about 10 seconds. This doesn't always happen though.

 

Hope this makes sense to somebody out there and is able to help. If you need any more information and something explained better then please ask.

[mynameisjuan]

Sounds like its the switch or possibly a bad cat5 cable from the switch to the router. Also that looks like its almost a managed switch as it has some capabilities. I would recommend a dumb or non-managed switch. It could be the switch just couldnt handle the traffic which is common for cheap managed switches like that. 

[HeaT]

4 minutes ago, mynameisjuan said:

Sounds like its the switch or possibly a bad cat5 cable from the switch to the router. Also that looks like its almost a managed switch as it has some capabilities. I would recommend a dumb or non-managed switch. It could be the switch just couldnt handle the traffic which is common for cheap managed switches like that. 

I'll take a look at the cables, They were brand new and been working fine for the past few days. I can turn off all the settings on the switch to make it a non manage switch?

 

I can also put the Virgin media hub 3 in modern mode which I may try next. Makes me wonder if the hub 3 can't handle everything on the network and keeps locking up or something. You know what routers/moderns are like from ISPs!

[mynameisjuan]

6 minutes ago, HeaT said:

I can turn off all the settings on the switch to make it a non manage switch?

Yes try that first if you can. Sometimes they have a pure switch mode. 

 

7 minutes ago, HeaT said:

You know what routers/moderns are like from ISPs!

*works for and ISP*....yes....yes I do haha. Actually modems are quite solid, but the extra junk some providers have for extra features are more areas for bugs which is where the issues come up. Thats why I only approve the order for pure modems or tested modem/routers only.

[HeaT]

1 hour ago, mynameisjuan said:

Yes try that first if you can. Sometimes they have a pure switch mode. 

 

*works for and ISP*....yes....yes I do haha. Actually modems are quite solid, but the extra junk some providers have for extra features are more areas for bugs which is where the issues come up. Thats why I only approve the order for pure modems or tested modem/routers only.

Yeah thats a good point about trying the switch first. Was just about to click the button to change to modern mode!

 

I'll keep you updated and thanks for the help so far.

 

UPDATE

Changing settings on the switch did... nothing. Running the Hub 3 in modern mode did nothing. I'm going to try without the R7000 and see if its that.

 

UPDATE 2: 

Still doing it without the R7000.. Maybe my connection is just f*cked??

 

Update 3: Connecting directly to the Hub 3 to my PC and it seems stable. Nothing else is on the wired network just the Sonos on wireless. I'm really lost here at what could be the fault.

 

 

[HeaT]

Small update, I've left the sonos off the wired network and it seems to be stable. No connection drops or disconnections on xbox. 

 

Any idea why the Sonos would be doing that? Maybe the network can't handle the data being transferred?

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