WiFi pod not working
I have been sent one of the crème coloured WiFi pods which the limited instructions say to plug on, give it 10 mins, and it should work. The light on mine keeps flashing and the VM Connect app says it is offline. I tried relocating the pod to within a couple of metres away from the router just to see if it would connect but it still doesn’t work. I also tried to remove and re-add it via the VM Connect app but it wont re-add. There seems to be limited support for getting these working, would anyone know where I could look next please? Thanks4 Months of Delays Getting My Flat Marked as Serviceable + Installation Delayed Again to 18 Dec
Hi, I’m posting here as I honestly don’t know where else to turn. I’m hoping someone from the forum team can help, because I’ve been trying to get Virgin broadband installed at my new flat since early August, and what should have been a straightforward process has now dragged on for months. The Underlying Issue When I first entered my address on the Virgin website back in August, the message said the flat was not yet set up for services and that I should contact Virgin to discuss next steps. I knew Virgin could serve the building, because a couple of other flats already had Virgin installed with no issues. So I followed the instructions and contacted Virgin to get the ball rolling However, from early August onwards, I’ve repeatedly struggled to get the flat progressed through the steps required to be marked as serviceable, and for anyone to even come out and survey the property. At every stage I’ve had to actively chase this and have been faced with: • multiple call-backs that never happened • various updates promised but never provided • conflicting information • being passed between teams • emails going unanswered internally It’s taken months to get Virgin to even confirm someone would come and assess the property. Visit in October That Led Nowhere After various calls to the networking team and much chasing, someone finally came to visit the building in late October and spoke to my dad (who happened to be there doing some decorating work). This person Zack said installation would be possible and asked my dad for his mobile number to provide an update within a few days. No update ever came and we have not heard for him since. Again, I had to chase repeatedly with my contact in the networking team to find out what was going on. Each time I had to again call back myself to find out if there were any updates. I was told that the networking contact has been reaching out to various managers and the local area team, but was receiving absolutely zero acknowledgment or reply. Serviceability Only Completed Because One Employee Forced It Through Eventually, when I had to chase again in November, my contact in the networking team stepped in and explained that: • he had contacted local teams several times • nobody was responding to him either, and • the process simply wasn’t being progressed He eventually had to manually mark my flat as serviceable on the system, essentially forcing the installation stage to begin as no one was responding to either of our attempts to progress. Without his intervention, I genuinely don’t think anything would have happened. Only after that, in November, could I finally submit an order for broadband and TV with him. Pre-Install Team Error Two Weeks Ago Following my order and a confirmation of an installation date yesterday on 2nd December, a pre-install team attended the property a few days later without informing me, carried out work, but installed the cable on the complete wrong side of the building, away from my flat. I was not made aware of this issue until my installation date yesterday, over two weeks later. Yesterday, when the main engineer arrived for the installation, she immediately confirmed that installation wasn’t possible that day as: • the pre-install team’s work was incorrect • the cable position made installation impossible as the signal would die long before reaching my flat • There was a cable point on the pavement on my side of the property which should have been used • installation could not go ahead as a result The engineer told me that the pre-installation team were fully aware of the location of my flat in relation to the property and would have known that this cable position was not viable to servicing my flat, but went ahead with installing it there anyway. She was apologetic that this had happened and that installation couldn’t go ahead that day. She said that she would raise this with pictures and videos of the issue and that a follow-up pre-install visit would be arranged for this Thursday 4th December. An internal installation would then likely take place the following day on Friday. Now I’ve Been Told the Earliest Installation Is 18 December Today however I received a call saying the earliest new installation appointment is the morning of 18th December, over ANOTHER two weeks from now. This further delay following months of difficulties and a failed installation visit due to no fault of my own is frankly unacceptable. This Is Stopping Me From Moving Into My Flat I work from home and cannot move in until broadband is installed. Everything else is ready - furniture, decorating, flooring - but I can’t move without WiFi. I’m fortunate enough in that I don’t have to move in immediately, but it’s honestly unthinkable what someone in my situation would do if they didn’t have that option. The fact that it has taken 4 MONTHS of frustration, and active chasing to get to this point is frankly ridiculous and unacceptable. This is causing significant stress and frustration for me. What I Need I’m asking for: • A sooner installation date than 18 December. The failed installation date yesterday is solely Virgin Media’s fault. • Someone to oversee this properly so the pre-install is done correctly this time • Clearer communication from a UK-based team who can take ownership of this process. I’ve been trying to get this organised since the start of August, and each phase has involved errors, missed commitments, and lack of communication. A further two week delay caused by a mistake on Virgin’s side simply isn’t reasonable. If someone from the forum team or an installation coordinator can intervene and help resolve this urgently, I would be really grateful. Thank you.Intermittent service after multiple engineer visits
I'm writing here as I feel I have exhausted any possible avenues through customer services over the past 6 months or so, and I'm currently stuck in an endless loop. After my most recent call today I have a logged yet another complaint, but it seems that the only resolution suggested is to send a third engineer from the same team. For context, I'm running my Hub 5 in modem mode with a third party router, but I've confirmed the issue is still present when using the Hub 5 as a router. To summarise the current situation: At random intervals (this can happen multiple times in a day, or not at all for days) my connection will drop. This typically shows as T3 timeouts (often on all consecutive channels) in the network logs. There is no pattern that I have been able to ascertain. The connection will resume after a minute or so without any action needed, but obviously the the loss of connection will impact on anything I am currently doing (work calls, typically). The quality of my service other than this is fine, and I have no issues with speed or network quality outside of this particular issue. I can't put my finger on when the issue first started occurring, but there have been no changes to equipment or in the house since the connection was originally installed. After doing the usual troubleshooting and confirming there were no apparent issues on my end, the first engineer was sent out. The first engineer rebalanced the signals, as some of the power levels were out of spec. A check was also done on all of the equipment internally and externally. The problem still occurred despite this. After waiting a month or so, I escalated again and a second engineer was sent. The second engineer confirmed the quality of all of the cables and connections, and that there were no apparent issues with my equipment according to their tests. They did check the cabinet and informed me that one of the connections in there was loose (not even finger tight) and that they had rectified that. Unfortunately, the problem has persisted. Ahead of posting this, I set up Broadband Quality Monitoring and waited for the issue to reoccur. This morning it has happened twice, which I believe is reflected there. I've attached images from today of an example of the issue in the logs, as well as the information from the router, the BQM and the results from SamKnows. Removed all IPs and MAC addresses in the images. Any help would be greatly appreciated as customer services have essentially told me there is no issue that they can see.Hub 5 rebooting it self between 8pm - 10pm every night.
So as title states, for the last 2 weeks my virgin hub 5 has started to reboot it self any time between the hours of 8pm up until 10 pm that ive noticed. so i loose internet to all connected devices, wifi and wired for a few minutes. the white light on the hub starts flashing for a few minutes. This is not ideal. kids games consoles go off, we loose connection to our streaming services, and other smart devices around the home, including security. nothing has been manually changed in the hub. please help
New Hub 5 keeps dropping internet connection
I had a new Hub 5 a few weeks ago (replaced a Hub 3 and briefly a Hub 4) and have now had a few times where the internet just stops for a few minutes, then comes back. During the outages I am able to talk to the Hub 5 quite happily via Wi-Fi and see its status page , so this seems to be some kind of internet/cable modem issue rather than a Wi-Fi problem. All our devices lose internet at the same time, even those cabled into the hub via Ethernet. Note that we had zero problems like this with the Hub 3 for all the time it was here (a week or so prior to the Hub 5 arriving). I had a look in the Hub 5 status pages and during the outages had the following things logged: 24-11-2025 14:22:03 critical Unicast Maintenance Ranging attempted - No response - Retries exhausted;CM-MAC=70:7d:a1:74:e7:45;CMTS-MAC=00:01:5c:7b:ac:54;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.1; 24-11-2025 14:22:03 critical 16 consecutive T3 timeouts while trying to range on upstream channel 8;CM-MAC=70:7d:a1:74:e7:45;CMTS-MAC=00:01:5c:7b:ac:54;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.1; 24-11-2025 14:19:04 critical Started Unicast Maintenance Ranging - No Response received - T3 time-out;CM-MAC=70:7d:a1:74:e7:45;CMTS-MAC=00:01:5c:7b:ac:54;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.1; 21-11-2025 20:22:41 critical No Ranging Response received - T3 time-out;CM-MAC=70:7d:a1:74:e7:45;CMTS-MAC=00:01:5c:7b:ac:54;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.1; 21-11-2025 20:22:40 critical Unicast Maintenance Ranging attempted - No response - Retries exhausted;CM-MAC=70:7d:a1:74:e7:45;CMTS-MAC=00:01:5c:7b:ac:54;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.1; 21-11-2025 20:22:40 critical 16 consecutive T3 timeouts while trying to range on upstream channel 8;CM-MAC=70:7d:a1:74:e7:45;CMTS-MAC=00:01:5c:7b:ac:54;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.1; 21-11-2025 20:22:34 critical Started Unicast Maintenance Ranging - No Response received - T3 time-out;CM-MAC=70:7d:a1:74:e7:45;CMTS-MAC=00:01:5c:7b:ac:54;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.1; 16-11-2025 11:09:30 critical Unicast Maintenance Ranging attempted - No response - Retries exhausted;CM-MAC=70:7d:a1:74:e7:45;CMTS-MAC=00:01:5c:7b:ac:54;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.1; 16-11-2025 11:09:30 critical 16 consecutive T3 timeouts while trying to range on upstream channel 8;CM-MAC=70:7d:a1:74:e7:45;CMTS-MAC=00:01:5c:7b:ac:54;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.1; 16-11-2025 11:09:24 critical Started Unicast Maintenance Ranging - No Response received - T3 time-out;CM-MAC=70:7d:a1:74:e7:45;CMTS-MAC=00:01:5c:7b:ac:54;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.1; 14-11-2025 17:20:25 critical Unicast Maintenance Ranging attempted - No response - Retries exhausted;CM-MAC=70:7d:a1:74:e7:45;CMTS-MAC=00:01:5c:7b:ac:54;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.1; 14-11-2025 17:20:25 critical 16 consecutive T3 timeouts while trying to range on upstream channel 8;CM-MAC=70:7d:a1:74:e7:45;CMTS-MAC=00:01:5c:7b:ac:54;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.1; 14-11-2025 17:20:19 critical Started Unicast Maintenance Ranging - No Response received - T3 time-out;CM-MAC=70:7d:a1:74:e7:45;CMTS-MAC=00:01:5c:7b:ac:54;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.1; None of that means anything to me, but I have found other people with similar issues and this being a total pain to get sorted. I've just called the VM support number and they're going to book a techy to visit on the afternoon of 26th, but being an intermitted fault I suspect it's unlikely it'll do it whilst they're here. The person on the phone saw no issues when they looked at the connection (I'm guessing they don't get to see the Hub logs...) In the 3.0 Downstream Channels bit, one line stands out as significantly different to all the rest: Channel Locked Status RxMER (dB) Pre RS Errors Post RS Errors 8 Locked 39 196 761 All the other channels are at low single digits for Pre RS Errors and zero for Post RS Errors. No idea if that's related? The log messages are talking about upstream channel 8 and the above is downstream channel 8. Also, when we had the Hub 3 fitted years ago, a 6dB attenuator was fitted. I have no idea if that's still needed, I recall the installer saying the signal was a bit strong. Perhaps the Hub 5 would work better with this removed, or maybe it even needs a higher value attenuator? Can anyone tell me what range of numbers I should be looking for in the Downstream or Upstream sections? I'm guessing there's a normal operating range for the dBmV power levels? Thanks for any help, advice and suggestions 😊
Broadband outage since 20.11.25 in HX7 - any insiders know why?
I’m in West Yorkshire (hX7) and my broadband has now been down since 20th November due to an outage in our area. Virgin Media keeps giving me daily “it’ll be fixed by X time” estimates, but every time the deadline passes the fix time just gets pushed back again. I finally got a fault reference (F012083365), but the automated text updates are now giving me completely unrealistic placeholder repair dates like 29/11/2025 and 01/12/2025, which obviously aren’t genuine engineer estimates. It feels like the system is just looping without any real update or engineer activity. I’ve spoken to WhatsApp support, web chat, and phone support, but I keep getting copy-paste answers like “an engineer is on their way” or “external damage by a foreign element,” with no actual detail about what’s happening or when it will realistically be resolved. Is anyone else in the area experiencing the same outage? Or does anyone here who works/has worked for Virgin Media know what this usually means? Is this the kind of long-term fault where they’re waiting on contractors or permits, or is it more likely that the job is stuck in their system? Any insight would be massively appreciated the lack of real communication is the most frustrating part.Hub keeps going off / updating
I’m on a Hub 3.0 and everything was perfectly fine until about 3 or 4 days ago. I upgraded my Virgin Media plan from M350 to M500 since I was on a rolling contract, and ever since the change the hub keeps shutting itself off and then rebooting. It’s already happened four or five times while I’ve been home, and my family said it’s also happened a couple of times when I wasn’t around. Each dropout takes a good ten to fifteen minutes before the connection comes back, sometimes longer. At first I assumed it was the hub being updated for the new plan, but this has been going on for days now. When upgrading I believe I was informed the new plan would start from 11th December. As we speak, the connection was lost 10-15 mins ago and I'm using my mobile hotspot to drop this message. Can someone from VM check what’s going on their end?
