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Virgin Media outages and service status in Smethwick, England

Some problems detected

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

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  • Virgin Media generated 8 outage signals in the last 24 hours around Smethwick, including 8 direct reports.
  • The most common problems reported in this area mention Internet, Wi-fi, and TV.
  • The most recent signal from this area was received Sep 1, 7:03 PM GMT+1.
  • 48% Internet (48%)
  • 23% Wi-fi (23%)
  • 14% TV (14%)
  • 8% Total Blackout (8%)
  • 7% E-mail (7%)
  • 1% Phone (1%)

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 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.

September 1: Problems at Virgin Media

Virgin Media is having issues since 06:00 PM GMT. Are you also affected? Leave a message in the comments section!

Live Outage Map Near Smethwick, England

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

CityProblem TypeReport Time
Wednesbury Internet 5 hours ago
Birmingham Internet 5 hours ago
Wednesbury Internet 5 hours ago
Tamworth Wi-fi 6 hours ago
Tipton Total Blackout 8 hours ago
Birmingham Wi-fi 9 hours ago

Nearby cities with recent reports

Birmingham

54 recent signals

5 hours ago
Tamworth

3 recent signals

6 hours ago
Wednesbury

2 recent signals

5 hours ago
Walsall

2 recent signals

12 hours ago
Dudley

2 recent signals

2 days ago

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Virgin Media Issues Reports Near Smethwick, England

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

  • stumccullagh
    Stuart McCullagh (@stumccullagh) reported from Solihull, England

    Not only did I have to go out to watch the football because Sky Sports doesn’t work BBC has gone down so can’t even watch MOTD thanks @virginmedia

  • measlewolf
    Steve Lees (@measlewolf) reported from Dudley, England

    @virginmedia Yes, the fault dates back from the 25th August and hopefully a fix will be made tomorrow, if not an engineer is booked for next week. When I finally got through the team were very helpful

  • measlewolf
    Steve Lees (@measlewolf) reported from Dudley, England

    @virginmedia I’m currently on hold. My mum is in her 70’s and waited in for an engineer only for them to send a text 10mins before to say you were coming in the 26th. The original appointment was the 21st and her TV service has been down for well over a week.

  • RobinB1971
    Robin 🤘🏻 (@RobinB1971) reported from Solihull, England

    @virginmedia signed up for your new broadband and still waiting for the stuff to arrive. Apparently parcel is still at @YodelOnline main hub. This is the SECOND day I've cancelled things and waited for it to arrive as yet to no avail. WTF is going on!?! 🤬

  • TheShannimal_
    TheShannimal🔜#i70 (@TheShannimal_) reported from Kidderminster, England

    @Cplcash @virginmedia Problem is other providers are so slow at installing fibre cables that most have no choice but to go with VM

  • a_Muss60
    Andy (@a_Muss60) reported from Swindon, England

    @matt_hanson70 @virginmedia Intermittent for 2.5 days, Sunday always v poor the worst is 0.4mbs with a 250mbs supply. VM's script always saying reboot etc.. Funny though following reporting an issue a week ago I suddenly recorded 256mbs for an hour then it slowly drops to normal! First ever hitting supply.

  • ReissOmari
    Gordé 🦩 (@ReissOmari) reported from Birmingham, England

    Mad that I pay £71 a month for 350mbps for @virginmedia Broadband for them to only supply me with 40mbps, internet is barely moving, can’t even load basic web pages on my MacBook or phone. Problems in the Birmingham area?

  • DeanCondliffe
    dean condliffe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 (@DeanCondliffe) reported from Birmingham, England

    The day ends with a Y 🤝 Virgin media not working again

  • stumccullagh
    Stuart McCullagh (@stumccullagh) reported from Birmingham, England

    @virginmedia But when a contract is agreed like a mortgage or a fixed energy deal surely the agreement should last the full term. I’ve had issues since September & been told I can’t leave due to being under a contract so why should my costs go up when I’ve got an agreement in place until Dec

  • ReissOmari
    Gordé 🦩 (@ReissOmari) reported from Birmingham, England

    Fed up of these “intermittent” problems with my @virginmedia broadband.

  • jenkin99
    jen (@jenkin99) reported from Birmingham, England

    @virginmedia We had issuse with our service, and was told we would need new cables. We the new cables installed. They left cabels hanging in the garden which has since been removed. Our grass is ruined (I have photos) it looks like next doors cable are also under or grass????

  • HuntColin58
    Colin Hunt (@HuntColin58) reported 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

  • ReissOmari
    Gordé 🦩 (@ReissOmari) reported from Birmingham, England

    And just like that my @virginmedia is off again, no internet whatsoever. Embarrassing service from them, very disappointed and frustrated.

  • ReissOmari
    Gordé 🦩 (@ReissOmari) reported from Birmingham, England

    @virginmedia Think we need to call an engineer out anyways, before the outage I was only getting 600mbps max when my package is the 1Gig.

  • NickHickey84
    Trickie Dickie (@NickHickey84) reported from Bradmore, England

    @virginmedia a customer of yours for years. Had a cpi increase letter to say leave with out penalty. Competitor massively cheaper than you for faster speeds. Only to be told by a colleague I have to pay £110 to leave today?

  • tarun65170952
    tarun (@tarun65170952) reported from Birmingham, England

    @virginmedia Im getting slow speeds on my broadband. My package is volt and which should be 250mbs im getting less that half of that. Please ask your team to look into this

  • CaseyRain
    Casey Rain (aka S-Endz) (@CaseyRain) reported from Birmingham, England

    Had an @virginmedia broadband outage on Sunday for 2 hours. Since then, connection so spotty that I'm getting 10 seconds of completely dropped packets followed by 20 seconds of slow-as-molasses ping times once every 10 minutes.

  • ________Danny
    Satish Danny Paul (@________Danny) reported 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

  • ThatNeilFleming
    neil fleming (@ThatNeilFleming) reported from Wolverhampton, England

    @fesshole Imagine having virgin media - those poor kids

  • stumccullagh
    Stuart McCullagh (@stumccullagh) reported from Swindon, England

    Any news on outages in B37? Also how do I get compensation for loss of svcs (inc my TV not working properly since September) @virginmedia

Virgin Media Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

  • Rach_EL_1982
    Rach A (@Rach_EL_1982) reported

    Virgin media charging a loyal customer of 20 years £114 per month is a little bit of a joke when we have a speed test of 63 and new customers get 500 …. Sort it out virgin media

  • TomJJarvis
    Tom J Jarvis (@TomJJarvis) reported

    @virginmedia I was sold Gig2 2Gbps symmetric in June. The upload was never delivered at the contracted speed. After three separate calls got nowhere, your Faults team corrected it, then applied a £6/month surcharge for the speed I had already bought. 1/

  • stephenm68
    Stephen Maddock (@stephenm68) reported

    @alan_reddish @virginmedia Day 34 here. And no proper answers such as whether any engineers have actually been out to try to fix things. Just stock answers from the @virginmedia script.

  • privatepilotuk
    Sekret Machines (@privatepilotuk) reported

    and still @o2 have done nothing about this disaster of a sign in process with @virginmedia Fire your developers. #Clueless

  • ConnorTWilson
    Connor Wilson (@ConnorTWilson) reported

    Virgin Media wifi is just **** innit

  • khal_lfc
    Khal (@khal_lfc) reported

    @Bev2810 @virginmedia I moved to YouFibre as @virginmedia was just too expensive and the service has been appalling over the last year

  • mastersdog
    master P (@mastersdog) reported

    @CheekyVic @virginmedia They r all the same. Was with Sky for 25 years now with Virgin. Not the best customer support

  • 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?

  • villa4ever29
    angela worley (@villa4ever29) reported

    @DianeRusse58708 @virginmedia I had the same issue. Did you have error code:CS2004? Mine is now fixed, but only within the last hour.

  • ExpanseCon
    Expanse Consulting Ltd (@ExpanseCon) reported

    @ulickdcox @VodafoneIreland 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.