BT suffers huge broadband failure across much of UK
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Re: BT suffers huge broadband failure across much of UK
#2Down again this morning for us, at 8AM we lost connection and (at 12:50) still haven't got it back. Routing our connection through our DR site.
Edit @ 13:50, back up, but so slow it's making doing anything impossible, still routing through DR site
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#3Mine was out for 4.5 hours yesterday.
They seem to be down playing the outage, the paper this morning mentioned that it was out for only an hour or so.
When I spoke to a support guy yesterday he said that 30% of their network was out and this was 4 hours into the outage.
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#4"Business users were particularly badly affected, with many reporting considerable lost revenue as a result."
It's a shame that these businesses that have so much hinging on their Internet connections don't have any kind of backup line arranged.
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#5Using 3G as my local exchange is actually out, sad that so many businesses did not have a backup if they are dependent on a single point of failure for revenue.
Re: BT suffers huge broadband failure across much of UK
#6Mine was out for 4.5 hours yesterday. They seem to be down playing the outage, the paper this morning mentioned that it was out for only an hour or so. When I spoke to a support guy yesterday he said that 30% of their network was out and this was 4 hours into the outage.
Yeah, I was told by a support guy that between 25-30% of BT users were affected.
We managed with iPad 3G with MiWi tethered to iMac via WiFi and then sharing connection from iMac via Ethernet!
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#7"BT said the service has now been fully restored, advising customers to "turn their hub or modem off and on again"."
So Roy works at BT now!
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#8We had downtime yesterday because of this - massive outbreak of actual work in the office as a result.
Re: BT suffers huge broadband failure across much of UK
#9"Business users were particularly badly affected, with many reporting considerable lost revenue as a result." It's a shame that these businesses that have so much hinging on their Internet connections don't have any kind of backup line arranged.
Getting a second non BT line would probably cost some companies their entire revenue.
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#10"Business users were particularly badly affected, with many reporting considerable lost revenue as a result." It's a shame that these businesses that have so much hinging on their Internet connections don't have any kind of backup line arranged.
I work for one of those businesses and we were affected. The reason we didn't have a backup line, is because the other major ISP (Virgin) doesn't have its fibre in our region. Therefore, BT is our only option.