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Snowdog123
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28 days ago

Connection intermittent for 3+ weeks because ‘known issue in the area’

My connection has been intermittent (read: pretty much useless for work or streaming TV without issues) for 3+ weeks now. Whenever I log in and check broadband issues, it says that there’s a know issue in the area but that the root cause has been found. It also lists that an engineer is planned to fix it. I subscribe for notifications and after a few days I always get a message saying the an engineer is now fixing the issue, followed by a message that it’s fixed. Then, about 1h later, the same issue reoccurs. A few hours later, there’s then another ‘known issue in the area’ that’s showing when I log into my Virgin account. I spoke to others in the street and they are experiencing the same issue. This patterns has repeated itself 4 times now, and 3 weeks later, my internet connect is still so unstable that I have been forced to go into the office every day to work. I tried to get to speak to a human at Virgin, but that’s just impossible… Can anyone please advise? I’m getting to point where I’m thinking of leaving Virgin especially now that I just got my bill for the full amount despite all the issues!

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  • Hello Snowdog123,

    Welcome to the Community and thanks for taking the time to post here on the forums. I’m sorry to hear of the issues that you’re having with your connection at the moment. I've looked into this and can see that there is still an area fault with an estimated fix time of 3pm on Friday 16th May, this has been logged under reference F011812032. We're not able to provide any further information about the issues at the moment however we hope to have the issues resolved before the current estimated fix time.

    Kind Regards,

    Steven_L

    • dixo4060's avatar
      dixo4060
      Just joined

      Hello,

      We’re obviously in the same area and have had the same issues for several weeks, exactly as you described, on the same reference number.

      I think we need a better update - I note that at 3pm the completion ETA immediately switched to 4pm and issues continue. That is probably the 10th time it has been pushed back in the past 3 weeks (after an earlier fault reference was closed and this one immediately opened to replace it).

      Any attempt to log it over the phone for compensation purposes immediately gets cut off as it’s a ‘known fault’. Next step is the ombudsman I suppose. 

      • John_GS's avatar
        John_GS
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        Hello dixo4060 
        Thanks for posting and welcome to the community. We're sorry to hear you're affected by an area issue. From a system check, there is an SNR issue in the area (signal to noise ratio). Fault number is F011812032. The current estimated fix date is tomorrow, the 19th May at 5pm. Hopefully fixed sooner for you.

  • @John_GS - re writing the the current fix time from the status page is not helpful. There is new current fix time given every few hours on the status page and a text is sent. Same thing happening for the last one month! either virgin gives a confirmed fixed fix time even if it is 3 month away (so that we can take remedial measures) or says they have failed and we cancel our contracts. what is it? surely virgin should not be so irresponsible and incapable understandingt the issue so badly that it keeps changing fix time every couple of hours! getting dropped out of inportant meetings, this way i am going to get fired from my job due to the worst possible service from virgin media 

    • Carley_S's avatar
      Carley_S
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      Hi Taskin 

      Welcome to the Community Forums. 

      Sorry to hear you're experiencing service issues. We aren't able to provide guaranteed fix times. All fix times are estimated and so can be extended or completed before the time/date advised. Intermittent issues are a lot trickier to locate and resolve, and so can take longer to resolve than some other faults. We assure you that the team will be doing all they can to have this resolved as soon as possible for you. 

      In the meantime, ensure that all your cabling for our equipment is tight, secure and free from any kinks, twists or damage.  Once the outage looks resolved/closed on the service status page, please do let us know if you're still experiencing any service issues.