For those of you experiencing problems with VM broadband/tv tonight, there is a nationwide issue which has severely affected their services.
Broadband seems to be either mostly or completely down depending on where you live. Their website is down.
Phone and TV services are also going down completely in areas
You can track the progress of the fix here >
community.virginmedia.com/t5/Fibre-optic-broadband-cable/MAJOR-NATIONAL-ROUTING-FAULT-Please-inform-
us/td-p/973197
People are already speculating that its a ddos attack, but thats unconfirmed.
edit: On our UK server (with a usual ping of 20).
edited 2012-01-17 20:33:39
really annoying, it keeps lagging me out of my univeristy website cos of it and I'm tryna fucking revise for my extremely mindbogglingly hard exam tomorrow, fuming
':D'
apparently customer support is horrid though.
lmfao ;( mines still being shit did a speedtest only like 8mb where i normaly get 50mb ;( contently
im not mad... just jelly.
media customer and he had something wrong with his internet yesterday
EDIT: found the website :)
doublespeed.virginmedia.com/?buspart=googlesearch&utm_source=
google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=virgin%20media%20double%20
speed&utm_campaign=Bolt:%20Brand
edited 2012-01-18 17:19:58
edited 2012-01-18 17:11:45
p/973439
Our engineers have brought our services back on line and we're working to resolve any remaining problems at the highest priority.
We're very sorry for any inconvenience caused.
Thanks
EDIT: found the website :)
doublespeed.virginmedia.com/?buspart=googlesearch&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_t
erm=virgin%20media%20double%20speed&utm_campaign=Bolt:%20Brand
that's sick!
Soon.
edited 2012-01-18 17:55:17