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Virgin Media outages and service status in Reading, England

Problems detected

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

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  • Virgin Media generated 0 outage signals in the last 24 hours around Reading, including 0 direct reports.
  • The most common problems reported in this area mention Internet, Wi-fi, and Total Blackout.
  • The most recent signal from this area was received Apr 15, 8:03 PM GMT+1.
  • 72% Internet (72%)
  • 14% Wi-fi (14%)
  • 8% Total Blackout (8%)
  • 3% E-mail (3%)
  • 3% TV (3%)

The latest reports from users having issues in Reading come from postal codes RG1 , RG6 , RG31 , RG2 , RG30 , RG4 , RG5 and RG10 .

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 Reading, England

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

April 17: Problems at Virgin Media

Virgin Media is having issues since 11:20 AM GMT. Are you also affected? Leave a message in the comments section!

Live Outage Map Near Reading, England

The most recent Virgin Media outage reports came from the following cities: Reading, Camberley, Henley on Thames, Farnborough, High Wycombe, Maidenhead, Marlow, Bracknell, Didcot, Tadley, and Fleet.

CityProblem TypeReport Time
Reading Internet 2 days ago
Camberley Internet 2 days ago
Reading Internet 3 days ago
Reading Total Blackout 4 days ago
Henley on Thames Internet 4 days ago
Farnborough Internet 4 days ago

Nearby cities with recent reports

Camberley

1 recent signals

2 days ago
Henley on Thames

1 recent signals

4 days ago
Farnborough

1 recent signals

4 days ago
High Wycombe

1 recent signals

6 days ago

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Virgin Media Issues Reports Near Reading, England

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

  • RNeacsu
    Razvan Neacsu (@RNeacsu) reported from Didcot, England

    @virginmedia Internet keeps disconnecting. Called, useless as always. Intermittent issues or connectivity issues. Just send an engineer to check, why wait for another 24h when this is an ongoing issue. I've even reset the hub, still same issues.

  • leaver_sharon
    Sharon Leaver (@leaver_sharon) reported from Bracknell, England

    @virginmedia Sorted now. Received an envelope last week with an adaptor. A leaflet inside stated we would receive an email when to change it. No such email received. Communication very poor

  • woodyturts
    Alex Turton (@woodyturts) reported from Farnborough, England

    @virginmedia service down in GU14?

  • 6thDr
    6thdr (@6thDr) reported from Wokingham, England

    Today I finally changed my phone. Goodbye #virginmedia #virginmobile never again shall I have such awful customer service service.

  • arintsie
    A Rintsie (@arintsie) reported from Marlow Bottom, England

    @virginmedia I am sorry but twice in 45 mins they cut me off as they did not know how to resolve the issue / easy way out

  • Pablocollier
    Paul Collier (@Pablocollier) reported from Wokingham, England

    @virginmedia Patchy. And the weekends enquiry regarding possibly upgrading... Non existent service.

  • Chateauneuf64
    Bowlesy (@Chateauneuf64) reported from Wokingham, England

    @virginmedia And there you have the extent of VM customer care folks!

  • PhilStace20
    Phil Stacey (@PhilStace20) reported from Maidenhead, England

    Hey @virginmedia I forgot how awful you were when it came to anything other than collecting my direct debit. Apparently you don’t have a complaints dept, genius, and after 4 calls to you today totally around three hours, you cut two of them off during the musical interlude!

  • Chateauneuf64
    Bowlesy (@Chateauneuf64) reported from Wokingham, England

    @virginmedia Broadband down again, 2nd week in a row. Had one day of service and stupidly canx Engineer due next day and hey presto back down we go again. 1 week wait for engineer, 1 day of BB, and now earliest slot for Engineer +1 week. Buyer beware. Typing whilst 50 mins holding with VM!

  • fayeharland
    faye harland (@fayeharland) reported from Reading, England

    @virginmedia Hi again. Just letting you know we’ve made contact with him and all seems fine. So please can we cancel the engineer for Friday.

  • AndyBarr79
    Andy Barr 🇬🇧🇪🇺 (@AndyBarr79) reported from Reading, England

    @virginmedia I can't sign in as I no longer hold an account, your CS don't care and obviously fobbing me off and not raising complaints as requested, I will just pursue via FCA and/or trading standards.

  • shaun1968
    shaun harley (@shaun1968) reported from Didcot, England

    @virginmedia I'm expecting a replacement set top box to replace a broken tivo. Told it will be delivered Weds. but I've had no confirmation email and not showing in my virgin app. Can anyone help

  • kqbrain
    Khurram Qayam (@kqbrain) reported from Reading, England

    @virginmedia let me down once again with their pathetic service. First the broadband was extremely slow all day and now the Hub is gone. No emergency appointment and I have to wait for a week for a technician visit. @Ofcom

  • pmross
    Paul Mackenzie Ross (@pmross) reported from Farnborough, England

    @virginmedia Nope. There’s “nothing wrong” with the broadband according to the status page. Never is. It’s always the hub supposedly downloading updates. 10 weeks of this now, getting a bit bored of the lack of service TBH. This needs to be escalated.

  • BagshotTwit
    Paul Austin (@BagshotTwit) reported from Camberley, England

    @virginmedia I upgraded to the Ultimate Oomph package in Jan but still waiting for the order to be completed. I’ve contacted customer services on numerous times but no success, I’ve also raised a complaint. How do I actually get some help to complete the order?

  • CM40UK
    CM40 (@CM40UK) reported from Blackwater, England

    @virginmedia Yes I have on multiple occasions, I have just been taking to engineer who running the 30 day test, while taking to him I had 3 lost connection issues. Your employees are trying say that I will have to pay to leave my contract, @Ofcom state, I can leave without penalty

  • kqbrain
    Khurram Qayam (@kqbrain) reported from Reading, England

    Another day of pathetic experience on @virginmedia broadband service. No broadband service in RG6 area. Regretting my decision to switch. @Ofcom @DowndetectorUK

  • CRJG_
    Cameron🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (@CRJG_) reported from Bracknell, England

    Huge congrats to @virginmedia for having a web chat service that is so bad that I joined the chat to upgrade my broadband, but after waiting for an eternity for replies I’m pretty much ready to just close my account

  • callum_penny
    Callum Penny (@callum_penny) reported from Fleet, England

    @virginmedia no WiFi for the past 4 hours now… have ran tests to solve issues. Says service is fine in area again now but still nothing? Gu52 area code

  • MikeBiscoe1
    Mike Biscoe (@MikeBiscoe1) reported from Reading, England

    @virginmedia *sigh*. Been directed to this many times. Had engineers referred many times. This is a persistent issue that raises its ugly head far too frequently

Virgin Media Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

  • cyberbob1uk
    Cyberbob1uk (@cyberbob1uk) reported

    @virginmedia what kind of tin-pot internet service are you providing? Broadband outages for multiple hours on April 4th, April 6th and now today, April 12th

  • LORDCANTl
    roach!! 🧀 INDONESIA IN 4 MONTHS!!! (@LORDCANTl) reported

    @virginmedia hey. can you explain why our virgin tv suddenly decided to become "cogeco" and insist we're in canada when we very much live in the uk and have never been to canada? we cannot access any streaming services.

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    🇫🇷OFFICIAL FRANCE 4K IPTV🇫🇷🇫🇷 (@ukiptv216695) reported

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  • formerprisoner_
    Reformed Prisoner (@formerprisoner_) reported

    @virginmedia 2/2 cont… ombudsman. You constantly failed to deliver a service, made constant promises and failed to deliver on them, so you were left with no choice but to agree to the cancellation. You are quite comfortably the worst broadband provider I have ever come across.

  • Gertrudemo81
    Andrea (@Gertrudemo81) reported

    @virginmedia Hi. We are having broadband issues in our area. It says fixed date 17th April. Surely that can’t be right? A week away to fix it??

  • LJHolden1986
    Leighton J Holden (@LJHolden1986) reported

    @virginmedia I need some help. I have had an O2 SIM card tagged onto my WiFi account. I never wanted this but I was told that I could just throw this away and not use it. I am now being charged £7.50 per month for absolutely nothing. Can you please advise on how I deal with this?

  • PHILROOKS
    just me (@PHILROOKS) reported

    @sharonmariahall @virginmedia It's not @virginmedia I find the issue, it's the poor customer service. I cannot understand how a CEO doesn't see all the bad reviews and do something about it.

  • BenEato46743114
    Ben Eaton (@BenEato46743114) reported

    @virginmedia Just cancelled my broadband because you want £33 for m350 but new customers get m500 for £24 how does that work been with you for nearly ten years but a new customer gets a better deal 👍.

  • loubylou60
    Karen Cheney (@loubylou60) reported

    @virginmedia your customer service is abysmal- sort it out

  • AlloquiStrix
    Alloqui Strix (@AlloquiStrix) reported

    @virginmedia and another update just received saying it will be fixed today. Honestly, make your mind up. The BB service is excellent when it works. When it doesn't you guys seem to take a trip to the local brewery and drink lemonde!