In reply to a post by candlerb:

In reply to a post by Taras:

One thing, oneweb over 31/12/24 and 1/1/25 failed

I didn't say satellite couldn't fail - only that it wouldn't be correlated with failure of your main FTTP connection. (e.g. a fibre cut in your local vicinity isn't going to affect the satellite).

https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2025/01/oneweb...

so it wasn't the satellite in this case but certainly solar winds can disrupt!

In reply to a post by BranH:

Had Openreach FTTP for nearly 14 months. Within 2 months we had a 27 day outage, and last month an 8 hour outage.

That would have been a serious issue somewhere. But it happens to both ... My neighbour had FTTC and his outage was around 6 weeks - BT supplied a 4G modem as a stopgap. My FTTP - same pole and same head end exchange suffered no issues.

In reply to a post by BranH:

Had Openreach FTTP for nearly 14 months. Within 2 months we had a 27 day outage, and last month an 8 hour outage.

Are you quite rural by any chance there in Dumfries & Galloway…I’ll explain my thinking…

Pretty rural, yes.

It's also gone down again 2 hours ago.

No PON light on the ONT, or something else ?

I'm having a stab that effectively your service in D&G is via a Subtended Head End (SHE), like this...

https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2023/08/openre...

The normal red LOS , and the PON off

In reply to a post by BranH:

The normal red LOS , and the PON off

OK, was just asking for clarity, thank you.

In reply to a post by adslmax:

Does anyone keeping their FTTC (SoGEA) as a backup along with FTTP? How reliable is Openreach FTTP?

Could of sworn you got FTTP this time last year, after complaining about G.Fast etc, etc anyway that's in the past.

My personal FTTP experience with my ALTNET, is the line and speed is stable, we've had one major outage in the 14 months I've been a customer, and that outage lasted a day, possibly two due to a fibre cut in a field caused by vandals thinking it was copper.

If your main provider is a ALTNET I can't see having a Openreach FTTC connection as a bad idea, especially if your router/setup allows dual WAN and can set the FTTC connection to be used a back up.

If you're with Openreach for FTTP, I don't honestly think having a FTTC back up would be worthwhile as stated above due to the fact that they all kind of go the same way back to the internet.

Best to have 2 connections (if it's really important to remain connected) on two different platforms/providers.

Just for completeness, it came back on this morning around 11am. Would love to know the reason for the faults, prior to failure the upload speed fell away, making me wonder about a mechanical fault.