Virgin Media outages and service status in Smethwick, England

Problems in the last 24 hours in Smethwick, England

The chart below shows the number of Virgin Media reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Smethwick, 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 Smethwick, England

The most recent Virgin Media outage reports came from the following cities: Birmingham, West Bromwich, Wednesbury, Bromsgrove, Walsall, Brierley Hill, Halesowen, Wolverhampton, Tamworth, Solihull, Sutton Coldfield, Stourbridge, Bilston, Dudley, and Rowley Regis.

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Birmingham	Wi-fi	48 minutes ago
Birmingham	Total Blackout	2 hours ago
Birmingham	Internet	1 day ago
Birmingham	TV	2 days ago
West Bromwich	Internet	2 days ago
Wednesbury	Internet	2 days ago

Nearby cities with recent reports

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Virgin Media Issues Reports Near Smethwick, England

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

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  Phil Queenan (@philq001) reported 3 minutes ago from Birmingham, England

  @Ian66232919 @virginmedia @02 have been awful and the reception is non existent, especially any where near Villa Park. May as well not take my phone out.

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  iamscorchy (@iamscorchy) reported 3 minutes ago from Wednesfield, England

  Virgin media is literally dog! Worst thing I've done is keep renewing with you every year next year 100% going with bt! Forever dropping out reconnecting utter pointless meant to be 1gig complete waffle! @Virgin #virginmedia

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  Andy Newton (@NewtonAndy) reported 14 minutes ago from Dudley, England

  @Niknaklady1 @virginmedia Oh dear. That's what made me think the problem may not be virgin, if you've got signal on another set. Hope you get it sorted 👍

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  Simon Neale (@nealesj) reported 16 minutes ago from Swindon, England

  It looks like @virginmedia name servers are not accessible so no DNS records can be resolved. A major outage for their services. Seems to be no comms from them. @BBCNews are you aware? #VirginMediaDown #VirginMedia

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  Stephen Bennett (@Stephen12857059) reported 21 minutes ago from Birmingham, England

  @virginmedia Nobody has called me and the WhatsApp chat is very frustrating and not dealing with the issue. This is very simple, I was sent contract paperwork with an agreed monthly fee of £86.75. Why have I paid two months of excessively higher payments. I should have left VM

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  Gordé 🦩 (@ReissOmari) reported 26 minutes ago from Birmingham, England

  @virginmedia Hi, I’m getting around 80mpbs now, should be 350 though, when I try and test it says there’s a problem in the area, but no further information

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  Frugalista (@frugalista1) reported 27 minutes ago from Dorridge, England

  @virginmedia Typical Virgin Media response. Passing me on. Not actually solving the problem. I will never come back to @virginmedia and will advise all my friends never to think of using you.

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  Satish Danny Paul (@________Danny) reported 29 minutes ago from West Bromwich, England

  @virginmedia I called cust serv today after logging complaint on 26th Nov and hearing nothing back. cust serv asked me to request my data and voice calls. listen to it myself and then send proof of being missold a contract/virgin error, so virgin can then resolve the matter and complaint

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  Stuart Henley (@HenleyStatic) reported 33 minutes ago from Halesowen, England

  @virginmedia footy on BBC1 through virgin box about 5 minutes behind tonight. Not good service

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  Evan Davis (@EvanD) reported 35 minutes ago from Birmingham, England

  @virginmedia Yes I’ve done that. My connection drops out for a minute or so every 30-60 mins. Hard to replicate. My account has notes regarding the reason why the credit was given last time. Ideally I don’t want to wait so long for the same issue to be fixed.

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  Colin Hunt (@HuntColin58) reported 37 minutes ago from Birmingham, England

  @virginmedia It took me best part of a day Friday 24/3/2023 to contact you to cancel my broadband but since I finally managed to you have been contacting me 4 times a day. We have signed a contract with someone else. Please stop harassing us we have cancelled

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  Jot Shoker (@jot_shoker) reported 42 minutes ago from West Bromwich, England

  I purchased @virginmedia high speed wifi but they are not giving a proper service We are totally frustrated

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  Stuart McCullagh (@stumccullagh) reported 42 minutes ago from Solihull, England

  @virginmedia right I’ve had issues for nearly a month I’ve done the link there’s a problem with the TV box please can I speak to a human ? This is seriously taking the mick now

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  Pretentious Opinions (@OpiniatedOne1) reported 47 minutes ago from Walsall Wood, England

  @virginmedia its nice you’re offering new customers ridiculously cheap deals but charging prices through the roof for an inferior service for a customer of nearly 20 years #CostOfLivingCrisis

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  Beard Punk (@BeardPunk) reported 51 minutes ago from Birmingham, England

  @virginmedia any updates on the VPN issue?

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  Alex (@laticwolf) reported 52 minutes ago from Bradmore, England

  @virginmedia good work 👏🏼 issues with WiFi being down constantly as soon as £7.50 monthly bill increases comes in! Currently on hour 5 of no internet and not due to be fixed before 1am 🙃

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  Garry (@paragaz) reported 53 minutes ago from Streetly, England

  @virginmedia hey. I am trying to speak to someone about my account but turns out nobody recognises my account number. Can you PM me to organise calling me please. I've tried the text message service

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  Howard Martin 💚 (@HJMKent) reported 56 minutes ago from Kidderminster, England

  @virginmedia Can you please explain why, when I renewed my package in March you reduced my last invoiced bill to reflect the change & took by DD what you said you would! Now you say you will suspend my service because I underpaid? You took what you wanted!

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  freckles n dimples (@xsasix) reported 56 minutes ago from Woodside, England

  @virginmedia how do you check the mobile phone signal in your area? I’ve had nine for a few days

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  TheBosz (@kolapoagunbiade) reported 57 minutes ago from Birmingham, England

  @virginmedia Unfortunately, you dont have a ticketing system or cobtact email to track issues, rather a phone system that requires you to wait forever to get through to an agent. A/c number: 095063606. I was charged x2.5 of what i was tp pay.

Virgin Media Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Filer (@FilerPlays) reported 1 minute ago

  @MachineGunLuk3y @virginmedia Majority’s of the ISP’s in my area run off the BT network so I’ve got fibre to the property with about 1GB down. I’ve had Virgin before and didn’t rate it, had issues similar to yourself as well mate.

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  Kay (@kaytydaty) reported 2 minutes ago

  @virginmedia I want to change bank details but online, the manage direct debit link, goes to ‘something’s not quite right, we’ve found a problem, please try again’ every time. Can you send me a direct link please? Thanks Kay

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  Jindu (@Phils_Cassidy) reported 3 minutes ago

  Good afternoon everyone I’ll briefly share my POV on choosing a good proxy. Here are the 3 major things you must check before using any IP: 1. ISP (Internet Service Provider)
This is the most important factor.
Think of it like our local networks — Glo, Airtel, MTN, or 9mobile.
Always pick residential consumer ISPs (e.g., AT&T, Comcast for USA; Telstra/TPG for Australia; Virgin Media, BT, Vodafone for UK) instead of datacenter providers (DigitalOcean, AWS, Choopa, etc.).
Websites easily flag datacenter IPs, but residential ones look like normal users on home Wi-Fi or mobile data. 2. Fraud Score / IP Reputation
Before binding the proxy, test it with tools like Scamalytics, IPQS, or Pixelscan. • ✅ Low Fraud Score (0–10) = Clean & safe. • ❌ High Fraud Score (30+) = Avoid. It will trigger CAPTCHAs, bot detection, or shadowbans.
Also check it’s not blacklisted on major spam databases. 3. IP Range (First 3 Octets)
Not all ranges from the same ISP perform the same. Some subnets get abused over time.
Australia examples:
❌ Avoid: 1., 101., 110.
✅ Good: 124., 121., 120. (Telstra) | 80. (TPG)
UK examples:
✅ Good: 86., 80. (Virgin Media) | 82., 78. (BT) Pick the right ISP and you’ll rarely get flagged. This was the main issue a lot of people faced with services like Outlier and Handshake. What proxy challenges are you currently facing? Drop them below

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  🅰️🅾️'🅱️🔻🍉 (@Weedabixxx) reported 5 minutes ago

  Why can't/wont either RTÉ or Virgin Media cover some of the Irish festivals with a live feed similar to Glastonbury? It's a damn shame.

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  † 𝕭𝖗𝖆𝖓𝖉𝖔𝖓 𝕽𝖞𝖆𝖓 𝕭𝖊𝖆𝖚𝖒𝖔𝖓𝖙 † (@Polythane) reported 6 minutes ago

  @VeltisLeEvil @Thatisdiffi You wait, I guess. But with Virgin Media, my internet very rarely goes down, and if it does, I can just go outside and do something else, like go watch some movies. It's never usually out for more than 3 hours

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  Banshee (@strikecenter147) reported 6 minutes ago

  @Benleo Ben bring up your hub on virgin media I guarantee you it’s been hacked and you get a warning. This is happening all over London and I can’t get anybody to help me with it. Bring up your own Virgin media hub and you will see what I mean.

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  Scuba (@RomeoLabia) reported 8 minutes ago

  Virgin Media (VM) "text stop to 30247" Me "stop" to 30247 VM - HA! here's some more marketing. VM - click here to unsubscribe from emails Me - clicks unsubscribe VM link is expired VM "text stop to 2394" me "stop" to 2394" VM - HA! don't be stupid, here's some more **** off

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  Ravi Pal (@ravipal1214) reported 8 minutes ago

  @virginmedia customer. Activated 24 July on Gig1. Nine days in: WiFi works in one floor of my house, upload is 40% below spec on router, I’ve been told I cannot order the equipment needed to fix it. 90 minutes on chat today produced a £5 offer and a suggestion that I cancel. Detail below. 🧵

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  Mark Oram (@markoram1) reported 12 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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  Brett Williams (@brettwill82) reported 12 minutes ago

  @virginmedia anyone’s lfc tv channels tv guide not working ?