Internet down, anyone else?

[zappaDPJ]

It went down just after midnight but it looks like I'm the only one?

[Simon]

I've been online quite late these last few nights, and I've certainly noticed a slowdown of the Internet after midnight.  I've not lost service at all, to my knowledge, but something certainly seems to be going on. 

[Clive]

I'm never online after midnight!   

[davecollins]

Mine was down for a while last night too:

[Gary]

Maybe the maintenance was to put smaller routers in...after the initial speed up feeing things seem slower all round during the day, and late at night.

[Steve]

I'm not on it long enough at home lately to appreciate any differences.

[Bill]

I was pounding my ear by then, but nothing showing on the BQMs.

I had an RSS earlier today that IDNet have installed a couple of new mail servers this morning (also on the Status page), but don't see why that should affect very much.

[Gary]

I had no disconnections last night according to my logs, unless it was BT work, Zens status page is your friend for that. They have upcoming works and faults for your Phone code area, may be useful as a sticky, it would ge great if IDNet did their own version.

http://status.zen.co.uk/broadband/

Edit: the GMS webmail interface they use for my domain mail has been updated, I noticed the other webmail ones have been too. Saying about being slow its flying along now.

Unless its me the status page post was updated two seconds before the original post was made

[zappaDPJ]

As it was only two of us I guess it was BT maintenance. It's a strange thing, a few years ago BT maintenance took place only once every 5 years or so and the Internet was rock solid. In recent times it seems to occur very regularly, sometimes nightly, and the Internet is unreliable.

Or to put it another way, in the first 5 years of using the Internet, my router recorded two outages. One was a BT planned maintenance of which I was informed and the other was when I had to pull the plug on it. The number of outages I've had in the last 5 years must be in the hundreds.

Location might be a factor. This area is plagued with BT line problems. We've had our line drop a number of times since moving here and there's always an engineer working on the cabinet. Maybe that's the problem

[mervl]

As it was only two of us I guess it was BT maintenance. It's a strange thing, a few years ago BT maintenance took place only once every 5 years or so and the Internet was rock solid. In recent times it seems to occur very regularly, sometimes nightly, and the Internet is unreliable.

Virtually all my (regular) nightime outages are maintenance/upgrades in the BT Wholesale network. Frankly isn't that necessary, and something we should be grateful for with the expotential growth in data traffic. If they stuck with the levels of capacity of five years ago, then what would the congestion be like?  If there's such a thing as faultless IT though I'd like some please, provided I don't have to pay for it.

[zappaDPJ]

I agree, it would be silly to object to planned maintenance and upgrades if that's what they are. The problem is I don't really know what they are because I can rarely find any information relating to the outages. I suspect though that there's something going on in this area that's causing a lot of the outages. Our neighbour for example have been without a working line for over a week.

[mervl]

Agreed, the lack of any - even less accurate - information is, I think, the biggest bugbear of broadband in the UK. The players make a rod for their own backs.

And we all draw our own conclusions, inevitably for the worst.

[Wooloff]

Mines just gone down again, 4th time in as many weeks.

I might have to start looking at Infinity.

[andrue]

Mines just gone down again, 4th time in as many weeks.

I might have to start looking at Infinity.

If the problem is not within IDNet's network then changing to Infinity is unlikely to help.