Nationwide BT outage

Glenn · Mar 30, 2012, 15:37:09

http://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2012/03/bt-based-broadband-isps-struck-by-national-uk-outage.html

Rik · Mar 30, 2012, 15:55:35

I wonder who tripped over the cable.

Simon · Mar 30, 2012, 16:00:22

... or pulled out the wrong plug...

Lance · Mar 30, 2012, 16:01:11

sorry.

Ardua · Mar 30, 2012, 16:41:22

I was out when the internet was out if you know what I mean. I see the hand of Govt here. Media reports 'Consumers rushing out to stockpile bandwidth in case of further shortages'. A spin doctor's attempt to deflect us all from criticising their inept handling of the fuel tanker drivers' strike (what strike?).

Rik · Mar 30, 2012, 17:04:15

I've got two jerrycans full of bandwidth now.

Glenn · Mar 30, 2012, 17:08:39

Stored in your garage I hope, and don't decant it.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-17560534

Rik · Mar 30, 2012, 17:11:50

I only decant port.

Glenn · Mar 30, 2012, 17:14:28

And never pass it to the right.

Rik · Mar 30, 2012, 17:15:50

Never pass it anywhere.

Glenn · Mar 30, 2012, 17:16:29

mervl · Mar 30, 2012, 17:18:41

Think it must be all my fault, as every time there's a reported national outage, it's after I have an outage several hours earlier (but not at the same time as everyone else). Probably the petrol crisis too. I filled up both cars on Monday (ignorant of any strike proposal, that's my story), not knowing that everyone else was watching and would draw their own conclusions. Oops.

EDIT: BT did for several years advertise my telephone number as that of the village clairvoyant. Perhaps they knew something I didn't?

Rik · Mar 30, 2012, 17:22:16

It must be Chaos Theory in action.

Baz · Mar 30, 2012, 17:25:10

dont think i was out and ive been in all day so would know if I was out

Baz · Mar 30, 2012, 17:27:14

...or in as the case may be

Technical Ben · Mar 30, 2012, 18:08:15

Quote from: Rik on Mar 30, 2012, 15:55:35
I wonder who tripped over the cable.

I've got a sneaking suspicion the "equipment" problems are a ruse. It may have been this time the "invert selection" button was hit before the "delete" button. Sadly, it was IDNets name up last time, this time everyone else's.

Baz, you've given me an idea. If someone asks "were you in on Tuesday (or any day)" reply, "I don't know, I was out, so unable to check" then perhaps "I could knock on the door next time to see if I'm in".

nowster · Apr 01, 2012, 15:20:37

Quote from: Rik on Mar 30, 2012, 17:22:16
It must be Chaos Theory in action.

What? Um... Ah... Yes... Dinosaurs! That was it.

Rik · Apr 01, 2012, 16:33:02

pctech · Apr 01, 2012, 20:51:48

According to this http://status.zensupport.co.uk/incident/5/2573 the fault was caused by a faulty switch within the BT network.

One switch goes down and it tekes down the DSL network? Sounds like bad design to me.

Niall · Apr 01, 2012, 22:06:09

And yet, not that much of a surprise

pctech · Apr 01, 2012, 23:25:17

How is that that small companies like IDNet and Zen spend thousands on their equipment and redundant kit to back it up to avoid where possible a total network failure while our former state monopoly's network can be floored by the failure of a single switch.

Oh that's right, BT is too big to fail and it can get away with giving shoddy service.

I'm sure the Government would be rushing to bail it out if it found itself to be a bit cash strapped.

Rik · Apr 02, 2012, 08:55:02

They'd have to, Mitch, like the banks, the country would fall over without them.

pctech · Apr 02, 2012, 17:31:52

Another reason to mutualise Wholesale/Openreach.

Rik · Apr 02, 2012, 17:56:58

A definite excuse to.

pctech · Apr 02, 2012, 19:14:25

A few outages aside, both LINX and LoNAP seem to work well with that business model.