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Virgin Media outages and service status in Watford, England

Service-wide status: Virgin Media

Some problems detected

Users are reporting problems related to: internet, wi-fi and total blackout.

Full Outage Map
  • Virgin Media generated 16 outage signals in the last 24 hours around Watford, including 16 direct reports.
  • The most common problems reported in this area mention Internet, Wi-fi, and Total Blackout.
  • Latest local activity: Sep 23, 8:19 AM GMT+1.

Share of direct reports from this area over the past 30 days.

  • 64% Internet (64%)
  • 18% Wi-fi (18%)
  • 11% Total Blackout (11%)
  • 4% E-mail (4%)
  • 2% TV (2%)
  • 1% Phone (1%)

The latest reports from users having issues in Watford come from postal codes WD18 , WD19 and WD24 .

Virgin Media offers mobile phone, television, broadband internet and phone service over the cable network. Virgin Media is part of NTL:Telewest. Virgin's mobile service is available under the Virgin Mobile brand, which operates as a mobile virtual network operator using the T-Mobile and Orange networks.

Problems in the last 24 hours in Watford, England

Virgin Media signals over the past 24 hours, with local activity from Watford, England and nearby areas. The dashed baseline applies to service-wide activity, not to local outage confirmation.

  • Service-wide signals
  • Watford, England and nearby areas
  • Service-wide baseline

September 23: Problems at Virgin Media

Virgin Media is having issues since 09:00 AM GMT. Are you also affected? Leave a message in the comments section!

Live Outage Map Near Watford, England

The most recent Virgin Media outage reports came from the following cities: Camden Town, Watford, London, Hammersmith, St Albans, City of Westminster, Barnet, Southall, Windsor, Ealing, Kensington, Edgware, Brentford, Hayes, and Hatfield.

CityProblem TypeReport Time
Camden Town Wi-fi 2 hours ago
Watford Wi-fi 11 hours ago
London Wi-fi 11 hours ago
London Wi-fi 11 hours ago
London Total Blackout 12 hours ago
London Internet 12 hours ago

Nearby cities with recent reports

London

53 signals in the past 7 days

11 hours ago
Hammersmith

6 signals in the past 7 days

1 day ago
Camden Town

3 signals in the past 7 days

2 hours ago
St Albans

1 signals in the past 7 days

1 day ago
City of Westminster

1 signals in the past 7 days

6 days ago

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Virgin Media Issues Reports Near Watford, England

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in Watford and nearby locations:

  • _Lewis_A
    Lewis Allen ⚒ (@_Lewis_A) reported from London, England

    So @virginmedia won't let me leave our contract despite their service continually crashing or not providing the speed it promises. Ultrafast broadband but getting nothing or 9mb download. Fed up with it now. Avoid them at all costs. #VirginMediaoutage #broadband

  • spandya1
    Sandeep Pandya (@spandya1) reported from Watford District, England

    Called @virginmedia , now a technician booked. Outages are now common, there’s little communication from @virginmedia on actual status, even the service status page is usually out of date and the call centre staff admitted to me they don’t know what’s going on.

  • BancoDePapa
    グラハム・スミス® ©Official (@BancoDePapa) reported from London, England

    I wonder if anyone has a #skyglass connected to a #virginmedia broadband? At least with #SkyQ your TV service will be unaffected

  • Griffo2018
    RICHARD GRIFFITHS (@Griffo2018) reported from London Colney, England

    @virginmedia Now I am told they will send me a new hub as they do think I have problems T the house . That’s why VM booked a engineer it was not me who did it . Time will tell if the goal post moves again today

  • angelstorm13
    Ella A Cutler (@angelstorm13) reported from Hatfield, England

    Virgin WiFi is up and down all the time, but now it's really down and not working. Can't even turn on my Alexa smart lights so stuck in the dark and soon landlines will be WiFi so that won't work either. @virginmedia #noservice

  • joybrenda
    Brenda (@joybrenda) reported from London, England

    @DannyMonez @virginmedia Yes sat down to watch final episode of " and just like that " and the screen is pixels all across. Just tried to watch on catch up is the same. Virgin Media i want a refund how can this be fixed. Can you tell me when sky will repeat this final episode.

  • Gosbo68
    Grant Osborn (@Gosbo68) reported from Northaw and Cuffley, England

    @Bazza_68 @virginmedia Up. Then down again. That’s the 4th time today.

  • jfcolomer
    Juan Folgar Colomer (@jfcolomer) reported from London, England

    @virginmedia what's the reason for the intermittent broadband service in the Charlton #SE7 area? Any ETA when this will be solved?

  • LinkedinMac
    Mac Laubscher (@LinkedinMac) reported from Bushey Heath, England

    @virginmedia any idea why services are down across the board in WD23 postcode area?

  • _Lewis_A
    Lewis Allen ⚒ (@_Lewis_A) reported from London, England

    @ameehan71 @virginmedia All new and reconnected. 200mb then next day nothing, comes on for a day then drops to 10mb. Talk to customer service and they don't have a clue. They also want over £400 for me to leave. Worst service I've ever known

  • silvergoatish
    The waving mechanical roadgoat™ (@silvergoatish) reported from Camden, England

    @virginmedia Duly noted. I'm not likely to be a customer for much longer though, with your general level of service and pricing.

  • Gosbo68
    Grant Osborn (@Gosbo68) reported from Northaw and Cuffley, England

    @virginmedia Wi-Fi still down.

  • iamAleFerrara
    Alessandro Ferrara (@iamAleFerrara) reported from Kensington, England

    @virginmedia Yes I did try to call but couldn’t get hold of anyone after a 20 min wait. As you can see from the screenshot above in previous tweet, every appointment I make gets cancelled. Are you able to do something about this? Any help would be much appreciated

  • GaborPfalzer
    Gabor (@GaborPfalzer) reported from Kensington, England

    @virginmedia After the two hour chat, it was finally resolved. Wife have arranged an internet connection to our new flat before this(with Virgin btw), took 5 minutes. Lot of hoops to jump through to cancel, when I just wanted to get it over with. No offers, just cancel.

  • Mustxkim
    Mustakim. (@Mustxkim) reported from London, England

    Virgin Media moving weird. My wifi is working but for certain things. YouTube, IG, Disney+ is all fine but Safari, Twitter and other apps ain’t working. Fix up man. I ain’t paying all this money for daily issues @virginmedia

  • GabrielaLungu
    Gabriela Lungu (@GabrielaLungu) reported from Kensington, England

    @virginmedia Yes, they are known issues; but they haven’t been fixed in over a month! Every day the message keeps changing. Thursday the promise is to have things fixed by Friday, Friday it moves to Monday aso… It’s been like this for a month 🤯 We work from home; we need decent broadband.

  • spandya1
    Sandeep Pandya (@spandya1) reported from Watford, England

    @virginmedia …and now download speed is 50-70 mbps as opposed to 500 mbps + before the incident (hard wired to router not over Wi-Fi). Please can you look into this?

  • angelstorm13
    Ella A Cutler (@angelstorm13) reported from Welwyn Hatfield, England

    And it's down again. #virginmedia

  • 1SLToo
    Andy (@1SLToo) reported from Rickmansworth, England

    Merry Christmas to all at @virginmedia who have left all of us in WD3 area with no TV or Internet for over a week (predicted) and probably longer over the entire festive period, moving to sky in the new year due to your continuing rubbish service and customer service

  • GaborPfalzer
    Gabor (@GaborPfalzer) reported from Kensington, England

    @Mike_Randazzo1 @virginmedia Oh, they did let me cancel, but I had to answer about 3 “last question”s before they proceeded 5 minute response time on chat, took me nearly two hours, after the 4 hours it took to connect an agent. We could get a contract with a credit check in 5 minutes.

Virgin Media Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

  • b0bbybux
    Bobby Bucks (@b0bbybux) reported

    @SBarrettBar @tescomobile Interesting, our fibre was down recently (Virgin Media, avoid like the plague) and our Tesco Mobile data coverage was absolutely terrible. If it haven’t been for my neighbour giving me access to his network, I would have been screwed. And we were down for a bloody week 🤬💩

  • ExpanseCon
    Expanse Consulting Ltd (@ExpanseCon) reported

    @MikeScheider_ Not a vodafone issue. Looks like a core switch failure, optical cross-connect fault or other fault inside one of the central carrier-neutral hubs. It has dropped interconnection across multiple fixed ISPs (Virgin Media, Eir, Siro, NBI) simultaneously.

  • CarryGaryUK
    ℂ𝕒𝕣𝕣𝕪𝔾𝕒𝕣𝕪 🇬🇧 (@CarryGaryUK) reported

    Virgin Media has such crap service honestly. No Internet for one week is just not good enough @virginmedia.

  • paulpresenteruk
    Paul Hulse (@paulpresenteruk) reported

    Dear @virginmedia I upgraded my package last night to add TV yet I wish to cancel this change due to the price for existing customers which is nearly double to what a new customer would get… I have tried to contact through various methods to cancel.

  • rhfrew
    Russell Frew (@rhfrew) reported

    @virginmedia The landing page is a pain in the backside. The user should be able to disable it if they want. Please issue a fix!

  • noimspartakus
    1965 Blue 1878 (@noimspartakus) reported

    @virginmedia do you have any issues in WA9? My internet has gone down 😡

  • PaulOBrienKil
    Paul O'Brien (@PaulOBrienKil) reported

    @VMSportIE I strongly urge anyone thinking of subscribing to @virginmedia to NOT do it. Took over a hour to get through to customer service & they still won't fix their mistake. Shambles of an organisation.

  • John_Of_Eng
    John 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧 (@John_Of_Eng) reported

    @virginmedia your app and customer service are absolutely dreadful. I only want to change a direct debit date for Christs sake.

  • DaveRutt2
    Dave Rutt (@DaveRutt2) reported

    @virginmedia can you help your call centres are useless!!! My sister has moved house as she and her husband are divorced and she has no contact with him. The ac is in his name , but she pays for it. All she wants is the ac to be in her name .. why is this so hard to do 🤬 ?

  • helenxbedford
    Helen Bedford (@helenxbedford) reported

    @virginmedia I have an engineer visit booked but it’s not showing on the app. I’ve raised a complaint about that but my complaint isn’t showing on the app. I started a live chat and was asked to move to WhatsApp’s, but didn’t receive any comms. How can I get a response from you?

Recent Virgin Media reports in Watford, England

Latest available direct user reports from this city and nearby areas. These are individual observations, not confirmed incidents or a complete outage history.

  • Camden Town: Wi-fi
  • Watford: Wi-fi
  • London: Wi-fi
  • London: Wi-fi
  • London: Total Blackout
  • London: Internet

Virgin Media detected incident history

These records describe service-wide increases in reported problems. They do not confirm an outage at every address. Recorded end times describe our detection window, not a provider-confirmed repair.

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    Detection ended: (17 minutes)
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    Detection ended: (1 minutes)
  • Detected:
    Detection ended: (19 minutes)
  • Detected:
    Detection ended: (3 minutes)
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    Detection ended: (4 minutes)
  • Detected:
    No end recorded. This alone does not establish the current status.

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