Virgin Media outages and service status in South Benfleet, England

Problems in the last 24 hours in South Benfleet, England

The chart below shows the number of Virgin Media reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in South Benfleet, England and surrounding areas. An outage is declared when the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line.

Live Outage Map Near South Benfleet, England

The most recent Virgin Media outage reports came from the following cities: Southend-on-Sea, Basildon, Grays, Wickford, Brentwood, Gillingham, Rochford, South Benfleet, Billericay, Canvey Island, and Ingatestone.

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Southend-on-Sea	Internet	4 days ago
Basildon	Internet	5 days ago
Southend-on-Sea	Internet	6 days ago
Southend-on-Sea	Internet	6 days ago
Grays	Wi-fi	6 days ago
Southend-on-Sea	Internet	7 days ago

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Virgin Media Issues Reports Near South Benfleet, England

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in South Benfleet and nearby locations:

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  Richard Noble (@Richard09499442) reported 4 minutes ago from South Ockendon, England

  @virginmedia im trying to sign in to my virgin account says i need to verify username in email i click verify & it says I've already verified username and so the circle of misery begins again, please help & dont say phone virgin as i cant get through or cant understand Filipino!

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  Gary Thompson (@goonergeek2000) reported 8 minutes ago from Grays, England

  @virginmedia right I’ve just about had enough of virgin customer services. Cancelled service on 10 December. Today find out account is live after logging in. On hold four times for over 45 minutes. Latest on hold for 1hr 19 minutes. Call gets answered then cut off! What the hell

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  Tolu (@tolu_____) reported 9 minutes ago from Basildon, England

  @virginmedia How about just provide me a link to download the less than 10mb of pdf? Admin fee to provide a link or email a customer of over 3years? What have you offered me in return for the many times of INTERRUPTED service when I’ve had to turn to my mobile hotspot?

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  Katie Purkiss (@KatiePurkiss) reported 9 minutes ago from Southend-on-Sea, England

  @virginmedia I’ve sorted the issue. But now there’s no way of cancelling the engineer! Can’t get through on phone. Appointment isn’t showing on their account, so can’t cancel there. WhatsApp is useless - been waiting for an Agent to be available since about 1pm!

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  Claire - with a capital C (@c1ormy) reported 10 minutes ago from Gravesend, England

  @virginmedia since outage in DA12 yesterday i have no services. Apparently on fault check status there’s no fault. Any advice? #virginmediadown #noservices

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  ꧁༒☬𝓢𝓾𝔃𝔂𝔀𝓸𝓽𝔃☬༒꧂ 🌷🐼🎪⭐️👸🏽 (@suzywotz) reported 13 minutes ago from Gravesend, England

  @JooMarsden @virginmedia I truly have never experienced anything like this before , there’s gonna be a launch here soon … this router out my bloody window and I couldn’t give a toss where it touches down @richardbranson it certainly won’t be a safe landing where’s our service we are paying for ?

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  Mark Gould (@yiddo71) reported 14 minutes ago from Rochester, England

  @virginmedia Your missing the point my phone works now my complaint was about the fact it took 9 days to activate and Virgin changed the number

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  Scott Jackson (@AViTSCJ) reported 17 minutes ago from Gravesend, England

  @virginmedia why is it when you request cancellation of service via phone and getting cut off mid call , then sending and email and also trying to chase via web chat which I also sent my request for cancellation and then move out two months later . They keep the account open 🤬

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  Mark Gould (@yiddo71) reported 20 minutes ago from Rochester, England

  @virginmedia No as normal Virgin customer service go quiet until I am forced to ring them again and as for the bill no additional charges you just seem to have doubled the bill

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  Onearmedjohn (@onearmedjohn) reported 24 minutes ago from Gillingham, England

  @virginmedia No and there’s no point. You’ve had two years to fix this. I’m not paying any more and you can sue me. See you in court.

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  Paul Ilett, Author (@Paul_Ilett) reported 25 minutes ago from Southend-on-Sea, England

  @fingers_terry @virginmedia I hope so. I’d hate to have to cancel my subscription.

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  paul fouracre (@moleyfozz) reported 30 minutes ago from Rochester, England

  @virginmedia since you upgraded me for free to intelligent wifi, ive lost all signal upstairs arghhh. How can i switch back?

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  Carol Dover (@CarolB29041964) reported 33 minutes ago from Stifford, England

  Just how **** are Virgin Media...my email was down for two evenings and probably the days as well earlier in the week, and now it's down again. Virgin Media i need to access my emails....this level of service is unacceptable. I'm paying for this crap service! @virginmedia

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  Darren Young 📺 (@Just_Daz_Young) reported 34 minutes ago from Gillingham, England

  @virginmedia No its ok.... ill get a proper company to take the contract over and cancel you. @BBCWatchdog are surely interesting in your customer service as I have screen shots.

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  grizzly_gooner (@GoonerGrizzly) reported 36 minutes ago from Thundersley, England

  @virginmedia A number of times. But let’s be honest, they’re nothing but messengers. There is no escalation, and they can’t even call the construction company to escalate issues. As someone who has worked within many projects teams, and mapped business processes, yours is simply shocking

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  Mark Gould (@yiddo71) reported 42 minutes ago from Rochester, England

  @virginmedia Just to know you still have not fixed my phone line despite a guarantee and you have just sent me a bill@for double my monthly bill.....way to go @virginmedia worst customer service ever!!

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  Onearmedjohn (@onearmedjohn) reported 45 minutes ago from Gillingham, England

  @virginmedia I’ve had two lengthy phone calls with your ‘technical support’ people; it briefly got quicker then stopped working completely. On their instructions I’ve changed some settings on my router which apparently may take 48 hours to fully take effect…

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  Mark Gould (@yiddo71) reported 47 minutes ago from Rochester, England

  Why is it every companies customer service line is so crap and does not want to help in any way shape or form #curryspcworld #virginmedia @BBCWatchdog

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  Russell Norris (@rrrussboy) reported 52 minutes ago from Southend-on-Sea, England

  @virginmedia You’ve now sent me the same unhelpful link about compensation 3 times. This will only compensate me if I have no service, and as I have a service (albeit 3mbps) this, as I’ve repeated several times, doesn’t help me. Another example of poor customer service

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  Scott Wickham (@Scott_Wic) reported 60 minutes ago from Rochester, England

  @virginmedia My request to support was about the hub5 and some Wi-Fi extenders/boosters which I’m entitled to, they said that it was sorted and would be in the post and now only the hub5 has turned up!!! Does this mean I have to contact support again…….

Virgin Media Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  meeeee (@baldiecute5) reported 8 minutes ago

  Just about had enough of this company and haven't even been connected yet ! Engineers turning up on wrong day or not at all ! Customer servicea shockingly hard to understand! And pretty useless , last chance tomorrow before I cancel transfer @virginmedia

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  Dety (@Dety0) reported 12 minutes ago

  Love tech like this WAS-110 XGS-PON SFP is a a module that allows you to bypass most USA/CA routers (AT&T's BGW320, Virgin Media's Hub 5X, or Bell's Giga Hub) by copying info from your router to this module and insert into a third party router or media convert from SFP to Ethernet to a router Get better stability, performance, and stronger QoS settings / firewall etc compared to the default setup I hope 1 day i find someone that needs this done

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  Raymond Watts (@raydwatts) reported 13 minutes ago

  @virginmedia I have still recieved no response from your help team

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  MrBazza 🎬 (@MrBazza) reported 17 minutes ago

  @virginmedia I logged a complaint a few weeks ago regarding mis-sold broadband rate. I rejected your initial offer in writing, then spent over 1 hour on hold only to be promised a callback in 20 minutes that never happened. Please check my complaint.

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  Sophie 🏳️‍🌈 (@FarrantSoph) reported 19 minutes ago

  @virginmedia really disappointed with the customer service I received today. Phoned to cancel my tv package (my contract ends in 41 days) I only require broadband. More in comments.. @Ofcom

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  Jack Ball (@j_ball13) reported 20 minutes ago

  .@virginmedia your bereavement team are a nightmare. We’re trying to transfer account from my deceased parent but we’ve been told we have to immediately cancel within 24 hours? Baring in mind we haven’t got anything else sorted to continue? Is this policy you promote to everyone?

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  Mark Oram (@markoram1) reported 21 minutes ago

  And goes on more broken promises of a call to resolve , if you have the opportunity leave @virginmedia as soon as you possibly can .

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  me (@helentink) reported 21 minutes ago

  @virginmedia your customer service..wow..wat can i say. Double our bill then say nothing you can do to help with offers and will juat charge us a 500 pound cancellation fee...you obviously dont care about long term customers...

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  Mark Oram (@markoram1) reported 28 minutes ago

  @virginmedia inc movies & sport & 1gb broadband all for a lady who has never used either and only sends the odd email . We have just spent another evening waiting another missed call and still no response to an email we sent a couple weeks ago . This is all causing her distress .