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rightclickfix
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24 days ago
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NE34 Intermittent Loss For 3 Days

My family and I work from home and cannot work due to this issue that's now into day 4. As you can imagine we're very frustrated and would like it fixed asap! Can anyone at VM give me any information/updates on the issue please? I've had to quickly log in here to post this whilst it's active!

  • The engineer returned from his friday evening nightmare diagnosing the issue to finish it after a mix up with job allocations over the weekend. It was the 15 year old cable running around the outside of the house to fault so he quickly replaced it just now to finish it off. Cracking lad, very professional and knowledgeable! All good now thankfully :) 

    I'm just posting this in case someone searches and it helps them...

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  • Hi rightclickfix 

    Thanks for posting and welcome to the community.

    Sorry to hear of any service issues. No area issues/outages when we've checked today so I do hope all is resolved.

    Please let us know if not and we'll help :)

    • rightclickfix's avatar
      rightclickfix
      Up to speed

      its been a week now and its rare I can find this forum nevermind connect to the net. Stop talking n get it fixed! I've had many ftp files d/l empty files with zero content and we reboot the hub5 at least 4 times a day to reconnect (literally rebooted it now to get here).The routers riddled with t3 critical timeouts etc. So post a new hub out for starters and/or get someone to call or give me a number to call this is extremely frustrating! We've been here since telewest and it's a rarity for outages and interruption which we've suffered for a day or 2 over the years with upgrades or issues but this is dragging on with nothing happening...

      HELP!

       

  • here's a report from the latest outage around 11am

    [Mod note: Image removed as it contained personal networking data]

    • carl_pearce's avatar
      carl_pearce
      Superstar

      You won't get any further information by ringing.

      You'll just have to hold out till it's resolved.

    • Vikki_M's avatar
      Vikki_M
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      Hi rightclickfix,

      Thanks for your post and welcome to our community.

      I'm very sorry to hear about the service issues you're having. 

      Please check all the white cables are connected securely to the Hub, any TV boxes, splitters and the wall socket.

      Please then reboot the hub. 

      If that doesn't resolve things, you'll need an engineer visit.

      I'll send you a private message now. 

      If you do requite the engineer visit, please pop back to me there and I can get that arranged for you.

      Please look out for the envelope in the top right of the page. 

       

  • betamax_bandit's avatar
    betamax_bandit
    On our wavelength

    I have the exact same error in my region and unable to access certain sites like BBC, Speedtest....etc I also work from home and its been a nightmare today

    • rightclickfix's avatar
      rightclickfix
      Up to speed

      well we did phone and we got an engineer out n he fixed it! don't believe the hype!

  • Adduxi's avatar
    Adduxi
    Very Insightful Person

    I hate to sound like a broken record on these threads, but anyone who is WFH should have a backup connection.  There are no SLA's on VM Residential connections, only on the Business one.  A backup 30 day SIM card or similar might get you over the fault period?

    • rightclickfix's avatar
      rightclickfix
      Up to speed

      We've all got hotspots on our phones which for my accountancy daughter was fine, however I tf large amounts of data to/from servers daily hence the need for 1gb connection. Also, many people out there might not have a clue what a "sla" is or a 30 day sim card and also may not know of the residential vs business issue? Most end users just want the net. (full stop). So maybe rather than act like a broken record, maybe create a post informing us/them of it instead (sticky it so you can paste it) of trolling posts repeatedly and save yourself a lot of time :)

  • The engineer returned from his friday evening nightmare diagnosing the issue to finish it after a mix up with job allocations over the weekend. It was the 15 year old cable running around the outside of the house to fault so he quickly replaced it just now to finish it off. Cracking lad, very professional and knowledgeable! All good now thankfully :) 

    I'm just posting this in case someone searches and it helps them...