All surrounding streets have Virgin Media with FTTP except mine
Hello! I live in London, and I have been waiting for fibre for several years. I have checked the fibre rollout map and it looks like in my area, Virgin Media is the only provider available for FTTP, openreach has plans to build but the entire area does not have openreach at all. I currently have FTTC (fibre to the cabinet) with BT but I have not renewed contract in the hopes that I would get fibre by 2026. It's now nearly the end of January and still not a single update since the beginning of last year. Upon further research, I found out that literally all streets surrounding mine has full fibre with virgin media available except mine, which is incredibly frustrating. I have filled out interest forms before but no luck. The only information that I have is that fibre is "planned" but honestly by the time Openreach comes I most likely won't even live here anymore. Is there any way to contact somebody at Virgin Media to come take a look at a possible connection? It's literally a 10 second walk from my street to the one that has fibre, and I believe my other neighbours would most likely sign up as well.Switch date changed
I ordered a VM fibre broadband package early September with an installation date of 10th December (that was the earliest available). I assumed it was because VM would have to inspect it my existing line (it's fibre already) was sufficient and a backlog of orders. I got an email on the 8th October from my current provider that VM had changed my switch date to 26th October. When I look at my VM order it still says the December date. I've not received any equipment or other emails from VM since I placed the order. Should I be concerned that I'm going to be left without internet? What should I do?Virgin Media accessible on main road but not our road.
Hi, I've recently moved into a new flat in a converted house and I'd love to get virgin fibre currently the only broadband suppliers offer FTTC (~60mbs) and my address is listed as inaccessible. The main road which my road branches off (a gated community area) gets virgin fibre but my road doesn't. I'm wondering if the inaccessibility was due to lack of access to check the site or if it is actually inaccessible (I can follow the BT lines down to my flat) and if this needs a survey or engineer. I've checked with the landowner, block and ground management and they're happy for virgin to fit fibre to the building but I'm not sure what I can do, the sales teams have told me its not possible. Thanks!Pole Junction Box Damage
I have tried to call, but there seems to be no suitable options. We have a fibre line and the junction box on the pole outside our house is hanging off. It will need some urgent attention as is hanging by the fibre lines. How do I go about getting hold of someone to sort this issue please?Repeated failed installs is driving me insane!
Plea for help. We have recently moved and simply wanted to move our VM to our new home, which is literally 100 metres away. There is some pre-install work required, we are on the 5th floor and the fibre needs to be connected to our apartment from the gardens below, the box is in situ but no fibre. The home install teams have been efficient, on time & pleasant - FOUR TIMES! Every time we are told the external work has not been completed resulting in a failed install, with teams to turning up and unable to help. We have now been without WI-FI over a month. I work from home for NHS and have been hotspotting from my phone which is unstable and not reliable when working with large data files, cloud based files or with Teams. The latest failed pre-install was today, we have yet another home install due tomorrow and know it will again be a waste of time, so rinse and repeat the last four visits. I cannot cope with yet another phone call and more false promises from the call Center, they are pleasant people with a difficult job, but I find it so condescending, I’ve have not known such poor customer service since the Telewest days. I want to cry with frustration. My question is, I’ve not had any issues previously with VM, but I’m at the point of throwing my hat in and going elsewhere. The compensation will probably only just cover my mobile phone bills. Anyone had similar and managed to overcome the false promises, failed pre-installs and even more delays?
Latency Issues
Hello, Just had virgin fibre installed and my latency in game seems to be about 20ms higher than it was with BT (not FTTP). What is going on? surely virgin FTTP should be faster latency? I attach image of my latency trace also. It seems to be constantly spiking up and down in a strange fashion every 15 minutes. [MOD EDIT: IMAGE REMOVED DUE TO PERSONAL INFORMATION BEING DISPLAYED]Just joined and my connection drops several times a day, every day (Hub 5, newly cabled area)
Hi everyone, I "upgraded" to a Virgin 1gig connection a month or so ago in a newly cabled area. Unfortunately I'm having issues with my connection dropping repeatedly. It mainly affects MS teams and Zoom calls which disconnect and then reconnect a few seconds later but i've also noticed an issue with Canva (online design software) and Google slides where both kick into "offline mode". I have a Hub 5 and two black pods set up. Speed is reasonable (upwards of 100mb in the most slowest area). I've rebooted the hub a good few times and Virgin have also reset the hub. Their technical support has been pretty unhelpful with little beyond the resets. I've set up a quality tracker here: https://www.thinkbroadband.com/broadband/monitoring/quality/share/ae93be1977c7171df0ae808ba8f0f820334d3a42 It's showing a weird cycling saw tooth pattern that repeats roughly every hour and 45 mins. Any suggestions of what this might mean or anything else that I can do to figure out what's going on and hopefully kick VM into action would be massively appreciated. Fingers crossed!Virgin fibre query - box outside
Hi, I have a query on when NTL(now virgin) going back over 20 years. When NTL for some reason stopped running cable in my cul-de-sac, I did hear that a couple of neighbours of mine didn’t want a box outside there house but would like to know if this was the case? I’m more than likely I’m in the wrong part of the forum so apologies in advance Sa128yn area Chris [MOD EDIT: Subject title changed for clarity]