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Ben2024
Tuning in
9 months ago

Several outages a week, for several hours at a time

Hi, I recently signed up to the M500 Full Fibre package and a few months down the line I’m regularly getting outages (2-3 times a week) during the day that usually last a few hours at a time. I end up booking an engineer to come look at it, it’ll eventually resolve itself and I cancel the engineer, rinse and repeat. Whenever this happens and I check the broadband service status it says everything is ok. Does anyone have any ideas of what this could be? My area has only had fibre rolled out to it this year so initially I just assumed it was teething troubles that would smooth out. But frankly I’m getting sick of this poor level of reliability as I work from home and I can’t really afford for this to keep happening. Thanks.

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  • jbrennand's avatar
    jbrennand
    Very Insightful Person

    Is anything being reported on the “free & automated” Service Status number - 0800 561 0061 - which usually gives the most up to date info. and tells you of more local issues and fix estimates, down to street cab/ postcode level.

  • Thanks, I've tried the number as it's just gone again (1hr and counting) but yet again, says there are no issues with the local service.

    • Adduxi's avatar
      Adduxi
      Very Insightful Person

      Ah, okay that's the new Hub 5X  First time I've seen the admin UI.  Not much to it really, and as you say the PON is disconnected.  Time to phone VM and this fabled "ring fenced" XGS-PON team .....   

    • Martin_N's avatar
      Martin_N
      Icon for Forum Team rankForum Team

      Hi Ben2024,

      Thank you for your post and welcome to the community. 

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

      We can certainly take a look into this. I will private message you now. 

      ^Martin