Netflix is DOWN – with thousands of customers across western Europe reporting they cannot access shows
- Large swathes of Britain and Europe receiving error message when they log on
- Users seeing ‘something went wrong’ message and are unable to access shows
- Comes as Virgin Media internet provider went down leaving people offline in UK
Netflix is down in large parts of Britain and Europe leaving hundreds of thousands of people unable to watch their favourite shows.
Users in the UK, France, Belgium, the Netherlands and other European countries are simply being told ‘something went wrong’ when they sign in.
Others are receiving ‘NSES-504’ error messages with viewers desperately grappling to access their TV shows and films of choice.
It comes after Virgin Media experienced a nationwide outage with many Britons still unable to get online at all.
An outage map shows large parts of the UK and western Europe unable to access Netflix
DownDetector, which monitors outages, saw users unable to access Netflix from 7pm
DownDetector, which monitors outages, saw users unable to access Netflix from around 7pm UK time.
Virgin Media problems have been persisting since 5pm UK time on Monday.
The coronavirus lockdown has seen a huge spike in online viewing, with people forced to stay in their homes.
But while subscriptions of streaming services such as Netflix are up, the pandemic is proving disastrous for revenue with filming of new content ground to a halt for the foreseeable future.
The coronavirus lockdown has seen a huge spike in online viewing on Netflix, with people forced to stay in their homes