Virgin Media outages and service status in Cardiff, Wales

Problems in the last 24 hours in Cardiff, Wales

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

Live Outage Map Near Cardiff, Wales

The most recent Virgin Media outage reports came from the following cities: Cardiff, Newport, Pontypridd, Weston-super-Mare, and Barry.

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Cardiff	Internet	1 day ago
Cardiff	Internet	1 day ago
Cardiff	Internet	1 day ago
Cardiff	Internet	2 days ago
Cardiff	Internet	3 days ago
Cardiff	Wi-fi	4 days ago

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Virgin Media Issues Reports Near Cardiff, Wales

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

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  Ariane (@MissAzzaB) reported 19 seconds ago from Cardiff, Wales

  Anybody else in Cardiff have reeeeeally slow and inconsistent internet these last couple of weeks? Trying to do anything involving the wifi - work or streaming - is so painful! @virginmedia #Cardiff

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  Benjamin Hartrey (@benj8min) reported 2 minutes ago from Cardiff, Wales

  @virginmedia It doesn't. No changes made. I had major problems setting this up, it went through someone in your complaints department and they had to do something manual to set the package I was on up. Clearly, even they are incapable. I've had TV for a few months, then it's just gone off.

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  Brody (@brodyanderson_) reported 3 minutes ago from Cardiff, Wales

  @virginmedia Yeah have already called. Reports no service issues in my location despite online reporting intermittent issues this morning. Ability to book an engineer has disappeared. Help appreciated - now over 24h without connection

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  Rob Weaver (@welsh1lad) reported 5 minutes ago from Barry, Wales

  @virginmedia Define active, if you mean do I have Service’s no , do I still use my email account yes.

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  Katieeeeeeeeeeeee 👻 (@SewScandalous) reported 7 minutes ago from Newport, Wales

  Oh, maybe not. Even though the website says no problem, there is a problem with the broadband round here 🙄 @virginmedia

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  Paul Ivins 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 ♎ 💙🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇪🇺 (@ivinsp) reported 7 minutes ago from Cardiff, Wales

  @richie_rich77 @virginmedia If it's just a WiFi issue and your LAN connection is OK maybe try a mesh system. Works great here with BT

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  Darren Coomber (@Dazc090861) reported 7 minutes ago from Cardiff, Wales

  @virginmedia Firstly a refund of £351 for the Mobile part of the Oomph bundle as it was stopped a couple of months after starting the contract..still not paid to me! The Media part..nothing has been done at all..no solution..just continual pestering to pay by debt collectors or cut service!

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  Noga Fett (@darth_noga) reported 11 minutes ago from Barry, Wales

  Absolutely shocking service from @virginmedia a 47% price increase for a customer of over 25 years and would rather lose a customer than give us a deal that new customers get. @BTCare @SkyHelpTeam can you do any better?

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  Mark Smith (@markccfc70) reported 14 minutes ago from Cwmbran Central, Wales

  Been with @virginmedia back as far as old NTL days. Downgrade our package for the first time ever to keep costs down, and the Internet must have crashed at least 8 times today, the day after we changed. Absolutely useless, on the phone tomorrow to cancel this **** completely.

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  Jordan (@welshcuriosity) reported 17 minutes ago from Cardiff, Wales

  Upgrading to gigabit broadband meant getting a new router from VirginMedia, so took the opportunity to tidy up and remove old cabling and extension leads. Didn't realise just how much unused crap I still had plugged in/taking up space

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  Steve George🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 (@George66Steve) reported 17 minutes ago from Cathays, Wales

  @virginmedia And if it's 'some customers' it's an awful bloody lot of them!

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  MaartenX. (@MaartenSleeckx) reported 18 minutes ago from Victoria, Wales

  @virginmedia Screw you. Only me dying bothers anyone, literally anyone, it's always impossible to help me until people understand that I will kill myself. You're no better than them. See you in 2 weeks or not "AB".

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  MH 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 #yescymru (@cymboi) reported 19 minutes ago from Newport, Wales

  @virginmedia @O2 Why is your Hotspot so poor? Never connects!

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  Ryan Davenport (@Welsh_Saint14) reported 24 minutes ago from Cardiff, Wales

  @virginmedia So myself or my wife has to spend our working day trying to get through to ypu just to be fobbed off to different departments and get no where 🙄🙄 customer service skills at best

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  Christina Macaulay (@macauc01) reported 32 minutes ago from Cardiff, Wales

  @virginmedia terrible service. You booked to install my equipment on 13th Dec 2023. Wrong year and no one will sort it out. Your fault entirely

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  Katieeeeeeeeeeeee 👻 (@SewScandalous) reported 33 minutes ago from Newport, Wales

  @virginmedia Imagine being a customer service agent and not having a clue how to do your job hahaha! 🙄

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  Jambo🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 (@Cluchman1) reported 37 minutes ago from Treforest, Wales

  Virgin Media is **** down forth 5th time in 2 days. Someone's doing a **** job. #virginmedia

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  Benjamin Hartrey (@benj8min) reported 43 minutes ago from Cardiff, Wales

  @virginmedia I dunno mate, that's why I tried to call you lot. You can't help, so don't worry about it. Another weekend without TV and internet, waiting for your engineer to turn up. Another complaint. Another refund.

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  Kevin Fortey (@GiantVeg) reported 44 minutes ago from Cwmbran Central, Wales

  @emmalunn @virginmedia Absolutely. Just had to improvise from a mobile phone with similarly shocking service too

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  MaartenX. (@MaartenSleeckx) reported 49 minutes ago from Victoria, Wales

  @virginmedia Clearly not as the issue keeps coming back after multiple engineer fixes outside AND in my home. You're lying through your teeth and leaving me in the dark literally. Stop hiding behind "standard business" replies, be human and help me.

Virgin Media Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Filer (@FilerPlays) reported 2 minutes 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 3 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 4 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 7 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 9 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 9 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 13 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 13 minutes ago

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