Virgin Media Outage Report in Smethwick, Sandwell, England
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Users are reporting problems related to: internet, wi-fi and total blackout.
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.
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E-mailProblems 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 and surrounding areas. An outage is declared when the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line.
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Most Reported Problems
The following are the most recent problems reported by Virgin Media users through our website.
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Internet (56%)
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Wi-fi (20%)
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Total Blackout (11%)
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TV (7%)
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E-mail (3%)
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Phone (2%)
Live Outage Map Near Smethwick, Sandwell, England
The most recent Virgin Media outage reports came from the following cities: Birmingham, Oldbury, Solihull, Sutton Coldfield, Walsall, Rowley Regis, Tamworth, West Bromwich, Dudley, Stourbridge, Wolverhampton, Brierley Hill, Bilston, Wednesbury and Cradley Heath.
| City | Problem Type | Report Time |
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 Birmingham |
Total Blackout | |
| Oldbury |
Internet | |
| Birmingham |
Wi-fi | |
| Birmingham |
Wi-fi | |
| Birmingham |
Internet | |
| Birmingham |
Internet |
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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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Ashley Day
(@AshleyDay1971) reported
from
Woodside, England
@virginmedia Internet down again, 3rd day I'm a row. Can't even check status on your website as its not loading properly. When will it be fixed?
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Martin Wilkinson
(@MartinWilko) reported
from
Birmingham, England
@pipjcee @virginmedia And not working again in Brum! #VirginMediaoutage
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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
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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.
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Martin Wilkinson
(@MartinWilko) reported
from
Birmingham, England
Virginmedia down Sutton Coldfield. National outage . Their website down, unable to report status. No reports or statements from Virgin media. Price rise of 13.8% #VirginMediaoutage @virginmedia
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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
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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?
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Yvonne 💙
(@Momrocks50) reported
from
Birmingham, England
Excuse me we pay enough for a "cough" service where is it? #virginmedia
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Simon Neale
(@nealesj) reported
from
Swindon, England
@virginmedia Dear ‘RP,’ I find your tone unacceptable. I don’t care how many times you’ve had to repeat the statement; customers are paying for a service they’ve not been getting, so dial down your level of obnoxiousness please.
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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.
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duggystone radio
(@duggystoneradio) reported
from
Swindon, England
Well hope @virginmedia and .#o2 get their act together it’s been shocking this week for robust network Had to kill the show this am could not even do audio stream Shocking we’ve got #duggysfest in may ….
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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.
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Adie Hughes
(@AdieJAMster) reported
from
Swindon, England
@virginmedia Internet has been down again for the whole night. When I spoke to you about the recent last 6 times it’s been down you said there was no issue! Looks like whole of UK was down now yet our bills go UP & UP & UP! #virginmedia
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Stuart McCullagh
(@stumccullagh) reported
from
Swindon, England
@virginmedia No , when I last spoke to someone on the phone the issue was still happening , it doesn’t happen as much now but still happens at least once a day
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TheShannimal🔜#i70
(@TheShannimal_) reported
from
Kidderminster, England
@MykeJD1 @virginmedia Gone down for a lot of people apparently
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Simon Neale
(@nealesj) reported
from
Swindon, England
Hey, ‘RP,’ again, @virginmedia is down. The lack of resilience is shocking and embarrassing for a major broadband provider. #VirginMediaDown #VirginMedia
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Simon Neale
(@nealesj) reported
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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Andraay Leung
(@Andraay) reported
from
Birmingham, England
@virginmedia having issues with Wi-Fi at home and your websites including the one on service status checks are not loading? As a result I can’t even report the problem.
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Scott badham
(@scbadham) reported
from
West Bromwich, England
@virginmedia really disappointed in the service lately all it does is keep dropping. I’ve had no Internet services for the last hour again the fourth time this week and it’s still not working
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Gordé 🦩
(@ReissOmari) reported
from
Birmingham, England
Ended up just reconnecting my TP Link router, it seems the problems were with my Hub 5 because everything seems to be working fine now. Not great @virginmedia
Virgin Media Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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Sujal Patel
(@_Master_P) reported
It really sucks that @virginmedia is the only option availabe to me. @zeninternet Hurry up and become available in my area!
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Sujal Patel
(@_Master_P) reported
@virginmedia just did a reset of my router thanks to one of you team members - speed is still atrocious. I cannot believe I now have to wait 30 days in the hopes they find an issue! WHAT A WASTE OF MY TIME AND MONEY! not even had it for 2 months and Im having issues.
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Zoe
(@cfcholland4life) reported
@virginmedia why are you causing me so much stress, WiFi issues for months, can’t send an engineer for eight days. 3 kids doing school work on teams & won’t give them free mobile data until the WiFi is sorted when I am paying your over £150 a month for this service😡
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Martha St. Arthur
(@marthastarthur) reported
@virginmedia just switched off our internet despite having spent over 10 hours on the phone to them over the last month trying to fix THEIR mistakes and being repeatedly hung up on and left on hold. **** you virgin and **** you capitalism and while I'm here **** you tories.
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سيد ثاقب احمد
(@saqs95) reported
@virginmedia I have had issues with my WiFi for a number of months now. No success in getting hold of a technician at all. Try to phone customer service they don't get back to you. Really awful service and they are supposed to be the best Internet service in the country.
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Rachael
(@mswalesenglish) reported
@smalltext1 @virginmedia @virginhelp Sky upgraded us (and it took our bill down - not sure how) during Lockdown 1.0 and we’ve had really consistent speed since then. I know they’re evil but needs must. Had crap experience with BT and Virgin in the past; seven years with Sky and we’re still happy.
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Harman Randhawa Music
(@MusicHarman) reported
@virginmedia No I haven't because when they have rang me they have cut me off, blamed me for cutting off and then also attempted to do multiple credit checks on my name once I've already passed. I just dont understand how they can be so bad
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Valerie Potts
(@Valmade) reported
@virginmedia why is your customer service number not working at all!!! My father cancelled his account in October. You have sent him a welcome letter and demand for payment, yet every channel he has tried to speak to someone there has been silence!
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Zoe
(@cfcholland4life) reported
@virginmedia can’t get a refund as it is the hub is that is the problem, your system showing wifi is going in to my home, so won’t give refund your get out clause again. All I want is for my kids to be able to access their lessons without issues, increase of data would solve this
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Liz Holland
(@lizholland7519) reported
@virginmedia We put the tv on about 6pm and noticed it. Agree not intentional however really upset about the service i received last night 4 HOURS on the phone