Announcement re Peterborough BRAS issue

[PuncH]

Been a while since I've seen this at this time of night!!

[Simon]

Oh, the joy of happy smiling faces!    Hope it's now fixed for you, guys. 

[joll200x]

huzzaah!



I was a bit scepticle of BTs approach of 'lets try pulling cables until the packet loss stops' but hey if it resolves the problem and they lick every patch cable in their posession I don't care!

Now I can update my anti-virus which has been nagging me

[klipp]

It's starting again..............

[cwmusson]

I can confirm huge packet loss AGAIN. 

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$ ping www.idnet.net
PING www.idnet.net (212.69.36.10) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from www.idnet.net (212.69.36.10): icmp_seq=1 ttl=58 time=34.0 ms
64 bytes from www.idnet.net (212.69.36.10): icmp_seq=7 ttl=58 time=34.3 ms
64 bytes from www.idnet.net (212.69.36.10): icmp_seq=9 ttl=58 time=34.3 ms
64 bytes from www.idnet.net (212.69.36.10): icmp_seq=10 ttl=58 time=34.8 ms
64 bytes from www.idnet.net (212.69.36.10): icmp_seq=11 ttl=58 time=33.5 ms
64 bytes from www.idnet.net (212.69.36.10): icmp_seq=13 ttl=58 time=34.3 ms
64 bytes from www.idnet.net (212.69.36.10): icmp_seq=14 ttl=58 time=33.8 ms
64 bytes from www.idnet.net (212.69.36.10): icmp_seq=16 ttl=58 time=33.8 ms
64 bytes from www.idnet.net (212.69.36.10): icmp_seq=19 ttl=58 time=33.4 ms
64 bytes from www.idnet.net (212.69.36.10): icmp_seq=20 ttl=58 time=33.7 ms
^C
--- www.idnet.net ping statistics ---
20 packets transmitted, 10 received, 50% packet loss, time 19048ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 33.430/34.044/34.870/0.431 ms


[PuncH]

Yup...had 50% packetloss to www.idnet.net at just after 7pm.

Surprised I've been able to post this message to be honest.

[cwmusson]

It seems to be working ok again now ...

[klipp]

Back for now...

[cwmusson]

It's broken again. 65% packet loss.

[stuart_sjb]

Hmmm, it's back to its old ways here in Cambridge as well. I'm thinking of implementing RFC1149 until BT get this fixed...

[Technical Ben]

Hmmm, it's back to its old ways here in Cambridge as well. I'm thinking of implementing RFC1149 until BT get this fixed...

I did have to google that one... but I had heard of it before. 

[esh]

This is, quite frankly, unbelievable. I am so thankful I don't have this issue as I currently am watching my servers and internet line with a hawk-eye as we have a scientific data run over the course of these few days and any notable downtime would be a problem.

Is there any estimate of number of people affected by this? How many ISP technical lines are swamped under? Is 56k dial-up actually better than that?

[Rik]

No idea on numbers, esh, but it's certainly affecting all BT-based ISPs.

[klipp]

Has to be many thousands.

[Rik]

Probably tens of thousands.

[klipp]

Well it's that time of night again.

[Rik]

It's getting to be a bit like waiting for the Blitz, isn't it.

[PuncH]

It's getting to be a bit like waiting for the Blitz, isn't it.

LOL...there's certainly an impending feeling of doom in our house at around 7pm it must be said!

Not only is the net important for me (gaming) it's important for our eBay shop as well, so all's good when it's working.

[Rik]

And time to take up watching Norwich when it's not?

[PuncH]

And time to take up watching Norwich when it's not?

PAH!

Would rather sit out in the snow than watch that rabble 

[stuart_sjb]

Anyone else experiencing the return of the Problem of Doom, albeit intermittently, this evening?

[PuncH]

So far I haven't (touch wood, fingers crossed, white rabbit etc etc)

But then I haven't touched the PC for about an hour. Just checked my router logs and there are no drops/disconnections.

[stuart_sjb]

Keep the rabbit close to hand :-p It is only intermittent for me, but since about 7:30pm I've been seeing a combination of lost packets and very high latency (in excess of 3 seconds for servers for which the round trip is usually only 30-40ms), leading to rather unpredictable downloads and browsing. But it's certainly an improvement on yesterday!

[Steve]

Just had a look at AAISP they seem to be confirming packet loss still continues to occur after the replacement part

[cavillas]

Must have replaced the parts with more cheap Chinese bits.