BBC News article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15154020

Was looking for the BT MSO wording.

Sounds more like a BT POP may have gone bang. In terms of failure while they say power issue, that could easily mean something blew itself up, thus making any backup power less useful.

Alas redundancy costs money, as any business will know, when it comes to planning for these things and other possibilities

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Yep it's major. Just logged in to our work monitoring portal (we monitor data connections) and I'm seeing around a couple of hundred connections (all xDSL broadband) down since 12:30. All over the country - Glasgow to Exeter.

Cue the legions of misinformed numpties invading the BBC website to give off like they were some Guardian commentator.

Dozens of replies from people without the faintest notion of how telephony or the internet works but they all know how to sort it out of course

..I was moved to try and inject a little sanity but I'll probably just get loads of down votes. Posting responses to articles on the BBC site is like widdling into a headwind most of the time.

Edited by Andrue (Mon 03-Oct-11 15:53:54)

Interesting. As a Plusnet (owned by BT) customer, I would have assumed BT's problems would gravitate to Plusnet too. No probs at 20+ miles North of Edinburgh.

I've quickly been scanning the comments on the BBC website and this brought a smile:

51 MINUTES AGO
This is pathetic, BT Openreach, revived huge amounts of public funding to update the countries ADSL backbone then they implement a single point of failure for the ENTIRE country, this is something that needs to be reviewed in parliament.

Where was the UPS? Where was the emergency power generation? this sort of failure should be impossible, its a key indicator of BT taking continual shortcuts.

You'd think reading the BBC site that the world had ended.

Was not aware the whole country was offline, and wonder what this huge amount of public money is?

Not too unusual for redudant power to a device to be dead, e.g. smoking/exploding PSU cause issues to device, then no hot swap replacement available.

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Was not aware the whole country was offline, and wonder what this huge amount of public money is?

Not too unusual for redudant power to a device to be dead, e.g. smoking/exploding PSU cause issues to device, then no hot swap replacement available.

I'm waiting for the bit where it's debated in parliament.

From what I've seen so far Andrew, it could be a BRAS / authentication problem (hardware failure etc) but I'm not giving it too much though. I'm not in work so I don't have to deal with our customer who are affected; I'm on a working C&W connection; and it's sunny outside.

North Hertfordshire was down for 50 mins. Looks like it was fairly major.

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BBC News article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15154020

"We're having some problems posting your comment at the moment. Sorry. We're doing our best to fix it"

Had to laugh at the BBC site