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Ciaran3000
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Issues with cabinet/beyond engineer support

I am having major issues with my virgin media internet. I had I think my 6th engineer visit this Saturday just gone (11th October) since march ISH time.

I have had multiple hub replacements, isolator replacements, attenuator changes, in and out of modem mode with multiple routers tried when in modem mode. They've also moved me in the ports on the cabinet twice. It doesn't matter what I do or the engineers do, it just keeps disconnecting.

The engineer that visited this Saturday did something different though. He actually bothered to check other residents in my buildings connection to see if they also get drops at the same time. And surprise surprise, they do. He then called another engineer to get a number for "networks" which I assume manages the cabinet and beyond, the stuff he can't fix. He put his colleague on speaker as he explained the situation and his colleague on the phone said it was a KNOWN ISSUE. So I've been going through this all year and virgin media are fully aware it's a networks issue not my equipment and have done nothing.

The engineer said he would escalate to the networks team and his boss and call me before the end of the day to let me know if networks were going to take the case or not and actually finally fix the building. But he didn't call me...

What am I supposed to do? I pay £70 a month for internet and it doesn't work. And I've just found out from the source that they know it doesn't work and are doing nothing about it. This quite frankly is outrageous. What am I paying for? How do I escalate to networks myself? I'm at a loss of what to do.

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  • Client62's avatar
    Client62
    Alessandro Volta

    Share the Upstream & Downstream signal levels that are at the root of this.

    • Ciaran3000's avatar
      Ciaran3000
      Just joined

      Not home right now so can't, but I can tell you my signal has been over 10 a few of the times hence the attenuator changes. But the engineer on Saturday is confident it's not my equipment or the cable from the cabinet to the flat, it's the networks side of it. 

      • Carley_S's avatar
        Carley_S
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        Hi Ciaran3000 
        Welcome to the Community Forums. 
        Sorry to hear of your ongoing service concerns and that you didn't receive the call back the engineer advised.
        Checking the service on our side, we cannot see any raised issues in the area that are currently affecting you. However, as the engineer raised this to networks, they'll investigate further. 
        I've reached out on our side to see if we can find more information on any known area issues for you that you mentioned the engineer advised. 
        Please keep us posted if you do hear back from them this week, and we'll keep you updated here too should we also hear back.