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mousey57
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Lost Internet yesterday afternoon. Hub went green and kept flashing 2 green arrows. Turned it off, gave it a rest, turned it back on. Nothing. Finally rang Virgin at about 19:28 and reported it. Agent got us to unplug it, then plug it back it. Did that, nothing changed. Unplug all cables except power and Virgin cable. Did that. Went through security. Agent said 2nd team would monitor it. Then hubby got text to say engineer would be out between 8am and midday on 1st September. This is a joke.....yes? No Internet for a week....how can we run a business with no Internet for a week? Please tell me what to do....apart from twiddle my thumbs. Compensation surely is due? Had to post this using my phone's Internet....H apparently.

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jbrennand
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See these....
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https://www.virginmedia.com/help/automatic-compensation

https://store.virginmedia.com/the-legal-stuff/terms-and-conditions-for-fibre-optic-services/automati...

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John
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I do not work for VM. My services: HD TV on VIP (+ Sky Sports & Movies & BT sport), x3 V6 boxes (1 wired, 2 on WiFi) Hub5 in modem mode with Apple Airport Extreme Router +2 Airport Express's & TP-Link Archer C64 WAP. On Volt 350Mbps, Talk Anytime Phone, x2 Mobile SIM only iPhones.

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mousey57
On our wavelength

Amazingly the broadband is back online.

But waiting to see if it continues to stay connected before cancelling engineer.

Tudor
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"how can we run a business with no Internet for a week?"

You have a residential VM contract, if you want an SLA for fix times you need the have a VM business plan.


Tudor
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mousey57
On our wavelength

Thanks for that, Tudor.

I work from home so it could be considered business or residential in my view.

I'll be sure to take it up with VM if it happens again.

jbrennand
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See these....
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https://www.virginmedia.com/help/automatic-compensation

https://store.virginmedia.com/the-legal-stuff/terms-and-conditions-for-fibre-optic-services/automati...

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John
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I do not work for VM. My services: HD TV on VIP (+ Sky Sports & Movies & BT sport), x3 V6 boxes (1 wired, 2 on WiFi) Hub5 in modem mode with Apple Airport Extreme Router +2 Airport Express's & TP-Link Archer C64 WAP. On Volt 350Mbps, Talk Anytime Phone, x2 Mobile SIM only iPhones.

So at 17:15 today broadband went down just like yesterday.

Hub light flashing green, flashing green arrows and no broadband.

This is ridiculous.

17:39 hub light solid green, arrows flashing green.

Have tried to run test through status checker but "Can't test your equipment" is all I get. Phone Internet isn't able to stay connected. Hence why we have broadband.

jbrennand
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try 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 down to street cab/ postcode level.

If nothing shows on there, try calling it in as a fault

Free on 150 - VM line and Mobile - or 0345 454 1111 others - national rate in bundled minutes.

Then see what they say when they test your connection.

And to "monitor and record these drops" set up a free, secure and “offlsite” - “Broadband Quality Monitor” to continually monitor the state of your connection and record any true network dropouts , latency issues, packet drops, etc - it will thus allow you to differentiate between those and simple wifi dropouts. It does it 24/7/365 and it keeps a visual record of any/all of your network disconnections, useful data to have to match to the Network logs (in your Hub settings) and also in discussions with VM - note it will take a few hours to start seeing a sensible picture - post up the “link” to the “share live graph”. Click the lower link (Share Live Graph) then click generate. Copy the text in the Direct Link box, beware, there may be more text than you can see. On here click the Link icon (2 links chain to the left of the camera icon) In the URL box paste the link you copied and then click OK

https://www.thinkbroadband.com/broadband/monitoring/quality

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John
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I do not work for VM. My services: HD TV on VIP (+ Sky Sports & Movies & BT sport), x3 V6 boxes (1 wired, 2 on WiFi) Hub5 in modem mode with Apple Airport Extreme Router +2 Airport Express's & TP-Link Archer C64 WAP. On Volt 350Mbps, Talk Anytime Phone, x2 Mobile SIM only iPhones.

I have done the 0800 number....no issues in my area.

Rang 150. Agent checked his end but could do nothing. Earliest appointment for engineer is 1st September between 8am and midday.

Asked about compensation and he has raised the document. If there are any cancellations, they'll be in touch.

Ah well back to twiddling my thumbs again.

mousey57
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Turned hub off at wall today and then turned it back on after a while, went off and made a coffee and lo and behold...internet is back again! I have no idea how long it will last so am not cancelling engineer's visit on 1st Sept as yet.
How can one have internet and then it disappear almost at a set time.......17:15 seems a good time to go off.

Hi mousey57, thanks for the message. 

I am sorry to hear that you are having issues with the connection and this is not the experience which we want you to have with us. 

Please let us know how it goes with the engineer visit and hopefully they are able to get this resolved for you. 

Kind regards 

Chris