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As I am unable to speak to a human at Virgin Media and the Live Chat wasted an hour of my life without giving me an answer, can anyone help me please. I renewed my Virgin contract in February however when I looked at my account today it seems to be giving me the option to renew again at £12 cheaper than the amount I’m paying. I don’t want to click on the renewal option in case I mess up my contract - has anyone else had a similar situation?Green box at side of house
Hi There is a Virgin Media green box located directly against the side wall of my house. I’ve recently spoken with engineers installing a new box a few feet away, and they informed me that the old box is scheduled for removal. The issue I’m facing is that the original box was positioned tightly against the wall, preventing me from roughcasting the area behind it. Once it’s removed, I’ll be left with a large, exposed square patch that will look noticeably out of place and unfinished on the exterior of my home. Could you please confirm whether Virgin Media will take responsibility for repairing or roughcasting the area once the box is taken out? This would help restore the property's appearance and avoid any long-term damage or visual inconsistency.What we're watching now...Continuing
The thread 'what are you watching now' was locked due to it's size and the thread continuing it by the moderator, was amalgamated and also locked.❓ to access the old thread which is now read only Original What are you watching now thread So this is a new thread with a slightly different Tittle.... Continuing.... Planet X appears to be hidden behind the Sun in our Solar System What Made Spartans So Much Better At Fighting INSANE AI Video Generator you can use NOW! I Got Early Access to Suno's New AI Tool - Here's what I Did With It! Udio's New Feature is a Gamechanger for AI Music
taskbar logo
Hi all, I seem to have lost the email logo that used to reside on the taskbar on my PC. This means I can no longer see any notifications of new email in my NTLworld address. I get them on my phone no problem but not on my PC. I get the ' outlook ' logo on the taskbar complete with notifications of new mail. I can't find any reference to email other than outlook. How can I replace the missing email logo ? cheersOfficial: VM worst pay-TV provider
In the latest official complaints stats from Ofcom VM has the worst record for pay-TV complaints of the major providers. Saying that both TalkTalk and EE had pretty dreadful sets of results across the board. As usual Sky did very well. https://www.ofcom.org.uk/phones-and-broadband/service-quality/latest-telecoms-and-pay-tv-complaints-revealed4/
Been amazing 5+ years and time to move on
I have used Virgin Media for 5+ years and initally was a rocky start with Wi-Fi but after investing in my own router( not very expensive £75) it never gave trouble again. Despite the negative reviews on Trustpilot I would rate 8/10. 1 point deduction because of their Hub 3 & 4 and 1 point for their customer service robots. But otherwise got what I paid for. Now Openreach have installed FTTP so I wanted to try out this new tech. All the best everyone.
Cheerio @blueyonder
That's me out. I'm giving up my @blueyonder email address after 3 decades. I have been very loyal to telewest and virgin media, bypassing competion offers year after year but, enough is enough. Price hike in April takes my bill to £190 per month in May. I can get the same package + free Disney and Netflix included for 57% less. When are VM going to realise that the card up their sleeve is their product. They would have everybody onboard if they benchmarked a package that was the same for new and existing customers. Everybody would be happy. Yes I had a discount when I joined benefitted for 2 years but since then, it's been the worry of changing that's kept me as a customer.Virgin broadband blocking Snapchat
I use snapchat for messaging at home and recently I keep getting a notification saying Smapchat has changed over to mobile data as my broadband is blocking access. I've looked in my settings and all parental controls are off. I've tried Googling, I've searched other settings on Virgins website. I don't know what else to do, as my signal on mobile network isn't brill at home. Anyone else had this issue and been able to solve it? ThanksDoes anyone know who Blix Solutions are?
I have just restarted my router and my external IP has changed. When looking up the IP using Whois, it says it relates to Blix Solutions? Who are Blix Solutions and what relevance do they have to Virgin Media and my external IP address? They seem to be based in Normay, though another site suggests Estomia. % This is the RIPE Database query service. % The objects are in RPSL format. % % The RIPE Database is subject to Terms and Conditions. % See https://docs.db.ripe.net/terms-conditions.html % Note: this output has been filtered. % To receive output for a database update, use the "-B" flag. % Information related to '185.41.242.0 - 185.41.242.255' % Abuse contact for '185.41.242.0 - 185.41.242.255' is ' @blixsolutions.no' inetnum: 185.41.242.0 - 185.41.242.255 netname: GB-BLIXLONDON descr: Blix Solutions - London country: GB geoloc: 51.509865 -0.118092 language: EN admin-c: BLIX-RIPE tech-c: BLIX-RIPE status: ASSIGNED PA mnt-by: BLIX-MNT created: 2017-01-28T13:58:07Z last-modified: 2018-08-02T09:17:55Z source: RIPE role: RIPE MANAGER address: Jerikoveien 26, N-1067 OSLO admin-c: EH752-RIPE tech-c: BLIX nic-hdl: BLIX-RIPE abuse-mailbox: @blixsolutions.no mnt-by: BLIX-MNT created: 2012-08-29T12:30:38Z last-modified: 2020-08-04T09:12:02Z source: RIPE # Filtered
