See 403 forbidden only with Virgin wifi for a ticket website
I want to buy concert tickets from Melon Ticket Global, which is a legal ticketing website in South Korea. I can open the website with my data or with other providers' wifi, but can't open it with the Virgin Media wifi, which is also my home wifi. I saw "403 Forbidden" when I tried to access it with Virgin. Unluckily, I can't use my data inside my flat, thanks to the concrete building :( I think this might be due to that Virgin Media uses its own DNS address. I tried to change my home wifi's DNS to public IPs (Google, Cloudflare), but it still didn't work. I used NordVPN at home, still not working. I kind of doubt that Virgin Media forces me to use its own DNS. Maybe I'm asking too much, but I do feel very inconvenient to go outside to access the website. And I'm still not sure it's Virgin Media banning Melon Ticket Global, or the other way around.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 5.0 Connection Loss
Hello Community, I've just updated from a hub 3.0 to a hub 5.0 and now I'm saying frequent broadband interruptions. Here are the down stream channels - are these normal? Router status 3.0 Downstream channels Channel Frequency (Hz) Power (dBmV) SNR (dB) Modulation Channel ID 1 194000000 1 39 QAM 256 8 2 138000000 3.5 39 QAM 256 1 3 146000000 2.7 38 QAM 256 2 4 154000000 2.2 38 QAM 256 3 5 162000000 1.7 38 QAM 256 4 6 170000000 1.3 38 QAM 256 5 7 178000000 1.2 38 QAM 256 6 8 186000000 1 39 QAM 256 7 9 202000000 0.8 39 QAM 256 9 10 210000000 0.6 39 QAM 256 10 11 218000000 0.6 39 QAM 256 11 12 226000000 0.3 39 QAM 256 12 13 234000000 0.4 39 QAM 256 13 14 242000000 0.9 39 QAM 256 14 15 250000000 0.8 39 QAM 256 15 16 258000000 0.9 39 QAM 256 16 17 266000000 -1 39 QAM 256 17 18 346000000 -3.3 38 QAM 256 27 19 354000000 -3.5 38 QAM 256 28 20 362000000 -3.9 37 QAM 256 29 21 370000000 -4.4 37 QAM 256 30 22 378000000 -4.7 37 QAM 256 31 23 386000000 -5.1 36 QAM 256 32 24 394000000 -5.7 38 QAM 256 33 25 402000000 -6 38 QAM 256 34 26 410000000 -6 38 QAM 256 35 27 418000000 -6.6 37 QAM 256 36 28 522000000 -10.9 34 QAM 256 37 29 530000000 -10.9 35 QAM 256 38 30 538000000 -10.8 34 QAM 256 39 31 546000000 -10.8 34 QAM 256 40 3.0 Downstream channels Channel Locked Status RxMER (dB) Pre RS Errors Post RS Errors 1 Locked 39 24 0 2 Locked 39 515 20 3 Locked 38 493 18 4 Locked 38 683 76 5 Locked 38 376 19 6 Locked 38 38 0 7 Locked 38 16 0 8 Locked 39 17 0 9 Locked 39 84 0 10 Locked 39 284 0 11 Locked 39 350 11 12 Locked 39 45 0 13 Locked 39 35 0 14 Locked 39 42 0 15 Locked 39 37 0 16 Locked 39 279 17 17 Locked 39 112 0 18 Locked 38 223 0 19 Locked 38 251 0 20 Locked 37 416 0 21 Locked 37 703 0 22 Locked 37 771 0 23 Locked 36 861 0 24 Locked 38 1382 0 25 Locked 38 1554 0 26 Locked 38 1534 0 27 Locked 37 2236 0 28 Locked 34 36026 0 29 Locked 35 36910 0 30 Locked 34 36488 0 31 Locked 34 38684 0 3.1 Downstream channels Channel Channel Width (MHz) FFT Type Number of Active Subcarriers Modulation (Active Profile) First Active Subcarrier (Hz) 41 190 4K 3736 QAM 4096 148 3.1 Downstream channels Channel ID Locked Status RxMER Data (dB) PLC Power (dBmV) Corrected errors (Active Profile) Uncorrectable errors (Active Profile) 41 Locked 0 -21.9 28067657 971484094 Thanks, DDIntermittent Signal in your area
I’ve noticed in the past week or so that my internet speed has been dropping randomly. I’m meant to be getting 350 download and was up until this last week where now it can drop as low as 100. It seems to fluctuate randomly. When I run a check on the VM app I get the intermittent signal on my area message. Rebooting the hub multiple times doesn’t seem to change anything. any advice or help emojis be greatly appreciatedWiFi 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? ThanksHub 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?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 5x Installed – No Modem Mode? What Are My Options Now?
I’ve just had Virgin Media fibre installed and I’ve been given the Hub 5x. I’ve since learned that modem mode isn’t available and it’s not possible to use my own modem/router in a proper bridge setup. For my setup this is a major issue, I run multiple VPNs, custom routing and need full control of my network. The Hub 5x in its current state is basically unusable for my needs. I’m just trying to understand what my realistic options are now: Cancel the contract and move to another provider that allows bridge mode Check if Virgin Media Business can offer a proper modem/bridge solution Or… is there any confirmed timeline for Hub 5x to support modem mode? I want to stay with Virgin if possible, but without modem mode or the ability to use my own router properly, I’m not sure what the best path is. Any guidance or official updates would be appreciated
