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]84Views0likes2CommentsJust 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!340Views0likes5CommentsChanging to fibre telephone if you only use the Superb as a modem?
I already had a perfectly good (and secure) router installed in my home when I moved to virgimedia. Rather than use the supplied superhub as a router, I used the UI to switch it into modem mode and connected my existing router to it It's been working flawlessly for many years and I have no intention of changing this. Today, we've been given advanced warning that we are being migrated to telephone over fibre. The instructions say that our DECT base station will have to be connected to the Superhub. Does anybody know if this will work if the Superhub is merely a modem?Solved340Views0likes2CommentsVirgin 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]Fibre 130 speed question
So, I have recently taken out a contract with Virgin Media for the Fibre130. I have speed checked using speedtest.net aswell as had it checked by the engineer which installed it today. I was just curious regarding the speeds, I was under the assumption that I would be getting the full speed of 130mb when downloading a game from Steam however its only giving me 16.7mbps I know that its sometimes under megabits per second rather that megabytes however i was under the assumption that I would get the full 130mb while downloading rather than the speed I am getting (16.7) I know this is probabaly a silly question but I just wanted to check more than anything as I had always thought fibre was the full package speed not a percentage of it like I had previously with a different company before my upgrade.Solved1.2KViews0likes4CommentsService Availability
Hi, Virgin fibre was installed on the street several months ago. Ordered at the first opportunity. Lads came round and installed the box outside, went to connect it on the street and found a problem. Said the order couldnt be completed and it would several months before it would get fixed. Order got cancelled and the availability of the fibre service was removed from the online checker. I checked in earlier this week and its still unavailable for me but the rest of the street can order the service. Can anyone help identify whats going on and why I still cant order. Regards MHub 5 keeps disconnecting and flashing red
Hi I've had no luck getting through to a human on the phone so I hope this will help. For the last 24 hours our Hub 5 has been constantly losing connection. It regularly goes into a state where the red light flashes over and over. And even when it does come back on, sometimes we're left with only a 10th of what our internet speed should be. We had it fitted in December and it was fine until now. It's not overheating, is connected properly and is in a well ventilated area. We've tried all methods of refreshing, restarting and resetting and we're worried this issue will keep happening. Every time I call or check on the app/online it simply states that everything is fine, which is obviously not the case. It seems to be working fine now, but it's only a matter of time before it goes down again. We both work from home so this is affecting our work quite severely. Also, the WiFi connection is poor/non existent at the living room end of our flat (all one single level, ground floor), so if this could be addressed too that would be great, otherwise we'll have to explore other provider options. Any help will be greatly appreciated. A technician visit, a new hub, maybe pod extenders? Thank you.2.5KViews0likes1Comment