Who stole the internet?

[Bill]

I just want to know if anyones working to solve the problem

Yes.

http://forums.thinkbroadband.com/idnet/t/3896963-server-not-found.html

And if I know Simon, bloody hard...

[wecpcs]

hardly anything working now, bbc, facebook and this forum is taking forever to load  

If Idnet think they have completed their upgrade, then they had better THINK AGAIN, for me now it is even worse as a greater number of my usual sites I access regularly are taking even
more refreshes to display and then a number of them are displayed as text format which then takes another refresh to correct. I cannot access speedtest.net at any server location without getting various errors.
I have flushed the DNS cache rebooted the router and as a last resort turned off the router and PC for several minutes. This is totally unacceptable, but I will shut down now and try it again tomorrow before making any decision.

Colin

[Azy]

Thanks bill, glad they are working to resolve the issues     

[Technical Ben]

I obtained the open DNS numbers on my phone and stuck them into my router earlier but to no avail. 

Won't be far off 6 hours with virtually no service now, not amused.

Thank you Rapier Racer. I guess we now know: The problems do not effect everybody. And it is not fixed by using OpenDNS. Wonder why some have no trouble. 

[lozcart]

Wonder why some have no trouble. 

Possibly area related routing problems? I'm in Birmingham and have no page loading problems.

[Bill]

Wonder why some have no trouble. 

When they find that out, they're 90% of the way to fixing it!

[johnny5]

Everything is working okay for me now,seems to have been fixed in the last 15 minutes or so.

[Reya]

PS, perhaps if you try using Open DNS to see if this solves the problem? If it does, we can confirm it's a DNS problem, if it does not, then it's worse! 

I would, but...

"Firefox can't find the server at www.opendns.com." 

[idnetbarry]

Open Dns  208.67.220.220 and 208.67.222.222

Working fine for me.

[Niall]

Possibly area related routing problems? I'm in Birmingham and have no page loading problems.

Oddly enough, when I wasn't having issues, my sister was, and vice versa. We're on the same exchange, but about half a mile away from each other.

I think I'll reboot my router in a mo as I'm still having problems loading things.

[Azy]

cheers mate for them open dns numbers, internet working again for me

[Steve]

I think OpenDNS is worth a try but it is not a solution for everyone, I have no issues currently with IDNet DNS

[Niall]

Reboot no help for me. Can't access Steam store, and copy protection based within, so I can't play any games I want to Deviant art isn't loading, Facebook is having issues as is pretty much any site I look at now.

No disaster as I can get on the couple of sites I need to before I log off, but I think I'll just unplug my router for the night when I go to bed.

{edit} Now cannot log into MSN Messenger or hotmail. That is a pain in the arse, as I needed that. Ah well, might as well go to bed early and watch a film!
{edit 2} I'm now having issues seeing this forum!

[jameshurrell]

Just dropped in here and saw this slight curfuffle about the lack of internet  .

I monitor both my IDnet lines via the Thinkbroadband service. Both lines showed they (edit) lost contact with the outside world today, but I've not experienced any issues since this on one of the lines (the other is an office line so not using it this weekend).

Here's the graphs showing both drops:

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/ping/share/d61c677a77b2bea640cc5401a183b5ac.html
http://www.thinkbroadband.com/ping/share/fb61cbda7e641dee6ef7353322a8bc40.html

The lines are on different exchanges. I use OpenDNS here (out of interest).

[Bill]

That second graph is almost an exact copy of mine

I'd be surprised if you actually lost sync, those two red spikes were IDNet rebooting routers.

[DarkStar]

Now seems to be working OK for me during the last 30 mins or so, the site that gave the most trouble was Amazon, simply could not get it to load properly.
Had the same problems as everyone else this morning then the internet was absolutely flying for a couple of hours around midday. Come in from the garden and nearly all sites I tried to go to were a problem to resolve. Hopefully Simon has got it all sorted out now 

[Rapier Racer]

I saw open DNS working for someone else so was about to give it another go out of interest but of course I tried to open some sites again first and touch wood back in business, MSN signed in again too. Didn't expect a fix till tomorrow.

Credit where its due.

[jameshurrell]

You're right Bill - I should have said showing "a lack of connection"...

Can't check for certain as a brown out about 3 hrs ago has reset the router...

[klipp]

Urgh I am experiencing a lot of lag when browsing websites.  Speedtest returns a normal result so I'm not sure what the problem is or if its related to today's work.  Hopefully it will have magically fixed itself by tomorrow.

[Bill]

a brown out about 3 hrs ago has reset the router...

That's one of the reasons that my router is on the UPS

And the VDSL modem now I've got FTTC!

[DarkStar]

Spoke too soon, now having all sorts of problems again. Took several attempts to get on here 

[gyruss]

I'm on opendns settings 'now' have had the problems much like everyone else all afternoon/day.. found it was a name server issue mid evening, so switched to direct IP's on my teamspeak etc, then later did the open dns.

Whats the update on the actual work?  finished or still presenting issues?

[Simon]

Struggling here now too.  Internet like wading through treacle on sone sites, but ironically, IDNetters loads quicker than most.

[Gary]

Struggling here now too.  Internet like wading through treacle on sone sites, but ironically, IDNetters loads quicker than most.

Same here Simon, I used my landline to make the call I needed to on Skype, Open DNS sorts the issues out but tbh its late and I cannot be bothered, almost time to put the mac to sleep and forget about this till morning.

[Simon]

That's what I'll be doing soon, Gary.