Anyone else down?

sparkler · May 31, 2013, 21:12:33

this affected me as well in mid wales

scook94 · May 31, 2013, 21:13:22

Oops, spoke too soon. Browsing just gives me a BT Wholesale holding page.

sparkler · May 31, 2013, 21:17:05

use opendns

cavillas · May 31, 2013, 21:34:02

BT at it again. Whnever they get involved we have problems. Can't Idnet take over BT?

Christopher · May 31, 2013, 21:34:56

Was down here in North Essex,backed up to an earlier date and all seems ok,what's weird though is that the current time in the router log was "Current time: 2000-01-01 01:04:41" till about half an hour ago

cavillas · May 31, 2013, 21:38:48

BT Faults page https://btbusiness.custhelp.com/app/service_status_consumer/ss_cat/2468,2470 seems to answer a lot of questions.

Steve · May 31, 2013, 21:53:21

Not sure it answers anything, why are BT performing maintenance early on a Friday evening, sounds like bullocks to me!

Clive · May 31, 2013, 22:46:33

Mine was down in south Wales from 7pm until sometime after 9pm. I phoned ID Net who admitted they had a problem. BT Internet would have told me the problem was my fault.

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karvala · Jun 01, 2013, 12:20:32

Quote from: Steve on May 31, 2013, 21:53:21
Not sure it answers anything, why are BT performing maintenance early on a Friday evening, sounds like bullocks to me!

I've noticed that BT often perform maintenance late on a Friday afternoon or Friday evening; almost every time I have a BT-related problem (which is basically every problem I've ever had with the connection

) it occurs at the time. I'm guessing they have weekly targets or lists to get through, and suddenly spring into action on Friday lunchtime trying to get it done. That's why the errors occur; they rush things and don't bother to properly check their work.

Ruerin · Jun 01, 2013, 12:58:49

Was down 2 hours and has continually gone out for me again today, I always seem to get the short straw with BT maintenance.

Simon · Jun 01, 2013, 14:08:31

No problems here since it came back last night.

BrianM · Jun 01, 2013, 14:36:08

Was down here yesterday near Leeds when I switched on at around 7pm. Checked connections, filters etc. Noticed BT were working at top of the road at tea time, thought that might be the reason so gave up trying about 9 pm. Everything fine now though.

karvala · Jun 01, 2013, 16:53:37

Down here again: no loss of sync or BT IP address this time, but any attempt to browse takes me directly to the BT test page. Will shortly reboot the router, though I strongly suspect it's BT messing about again. This just happened in the last few minutes.

karvala · Jun 01, 2013, 17:07:41

....and back in business. As I suspected, BT were messing around and it only lasted a few minutes. Could still ping the router during that time as well, so the TBB monitor and router logs report nothing unusual. Could potentially have been more of those throughout the day and I wouldn't really have known.