Anyone on Virgin media having any issues today? Some sites seem to be having real problems loading, either really slow or time out -123-reg and virgins own community site for example - but some are just fine, like overclockers, google and most of the other places I've tried.
Virgin media issues?
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Probably their DNS servers being useless again. I've had far far less issues with Virgin broadband since pointing my router at Googles DNS servers instead. (8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4)
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are any of you guys living in or near reading?
if you are then the problem is that virgin are being inundated by students wanting internet, and the hub is getting overloaded.
virgin has said that the problem is low priority, and they need 10% of their customers to complain before it gets sorted
if you are then the problem is that virgin are being inundated by students wanting internet, and the hub is getting overloaded.
virgin has said that the problem is low priority, and they need 10% of their customers to complain before it gets sorted
Really...? Well I'm only down the road in Winnersh so...are any of you guys living in or near reading?
if you are then the problem is that virgin are being inundated by students wanting internet, and the hub is getting overloaded.
virgin has said that the problem is low priority, and they need 10% of their customers to complain before it gets sorted
Where you hear that from anyway?
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its what the people on the helpline said when my housemate was complaining at them
also, everyone i know in reading with virgin media (two other houses) has the same problem as us
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When dont we have issues with virgin media
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Fine here in Derby. I'm using Google's DNS servers though.
Thanks for the replys guys - I'm already on google DNS as it happens, but I don't think its a DNS issue, as the pages are coming down, just slowly.
I'm in Newbury so pretty close to reading. Is this student issue a new thing, because until last night, my broadband has been impeccable?
I'm in Newbury so pretty close to reading. Is this student issue a new thing, because until last night, my broadband has been impeccable?
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nope, been happening for at least a month
Control Panel > Network and Internet > Network and Sharing Center > Change Adapter Settings > right click the connection you want to change the DNS addresses for > Properties > Click 'Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4)' > Properties > Select 'Use the following DNS server addresses' and fill out the new DNS addresses.
We have had the issue for several days, so have many of my friends... They are playing dumb as a engineer is coming out tomorrow to swap the router out...
This site (ocuk) works flalessly, but the majority of others I use are suffering.
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This site (ocuk) works flalessly, but the majority of others I use are suffering.
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Our Virgin broadband had all the pace of an arthritic tortoise on Tuesday night and then died completely - working fine last night and tonight though.
probably just overloaded, you did start posting at peak times, i pay for the 30mb cable line and between 5 and 7pm i have trouble streaming iplayer and radio, to the point that it is un-watchable/listenable.
i blame it on the hub being overloaded as this is peak time. no excuss though, i pay for the 30meg line i should never have issues streaming radio.
i blame it on the hub being overloaded as this is peak time. no excuss though, i pay for the 30meg line i should never have issues streaming radio.
no problems here
Ours suddenly started working fine from around 10pm last night...
Suppose it's a guessing game as to what tonight is going to be like.
Well tonight I'm downloading (from Nvidia) at 10KB/s, Virgin rang me earlier (the twitter team)
he said he couldn't something my router, not enough complaints for it to be an area fault (yet), technician coming out on Wednesday -.-
he said he couldn't something my router, not enough complaints for it to be an area fault (yet), technician coming out on Wednesday -.-
