yeah, was an authentication issue for me, line remained synced with dial-tone, just would not accept username/password. luckily my two ADSL circuits were the 2nd backup for the two main circuits (One from Neos and the other VM). If you want to do it properly, get three carriers involved.

In reply to a post by clmfsh:

yeah, was an authentication issue for me, line remained synced with dial-tone, just would not accept username/password.

Same here (Oxfordshire).
Eventually came back after just over an hour but with the internet being close to unuseable (around ISDN speed).
BT speedtest kept saying 34000kbps (give or take) but even the most basic of web-pages taking an age to load. Speedtest.net giving around 96kbps!!!
Back now, but still not quite right (obviously some major re-routing involved).

No problems here at all. Speeds and pings completely unaffected.

I believe I'm routed through Edinburgh though (not sure about that though!)

That must explain why Orange WBC (hosted by BTw) failed to authenticate (LCP/CHAPS) both today & yesterday early PM. It;s been OK now for 3h 15m.

In reply to a post by orly:

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

..and if you couldn't it probably had

In reply to a post by camieabz:

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.

Its very random, I've got four BT business broadband lines up in Moray, two are working, two are down. Odd.

Hi there,
i experienced this too, i have just got a strange ping on speedtest.net my best ever! it is usually around 35-40ms but look at this! Result
and my bt business connection was also offline here in cornwall near newquay today, so was our office! between 12:30~ish and 13:30~ish
My Home BT Business Broadband Ping Snapshot

In reply to a post by orly:

I believe I'm routed through Edinburgh though (not sure about that though!)

Unfortunately I'm located right in the problem area
I had a sync throughout the period (mainly because I'm not actually in Birmingham and the sync is just between home & cabinet) but was unable to get internet traffic due to the problem in Birmingham.
AIUI the problem was a power outage in a Birmingham exchange and my routing does go in that direction (Speedtest.net selects a test server based on lowest ping, and it always picks either a Birmingham or Coventry server).

Pretty much back to normal now.