Why not go straight to the horse's mouth Capricorn ? Give the CS team a call and ask what's what, then post back in here and let us know ? Re: posts being cryptic...hmmmm not from my reading.
Simon posted that there would be some downtime while new hardware got swapped in...followed by an (admittedly uncharacteristically terse) post to say the work had been delayed.
I read from it that they were going hard at it getting the situation resolved (ie no time for marketing-speak in the posts). You're not onboard with IDNet yet and of course you won't have had a chance to 'see them in action' as it were...main reason no-one's jumping up and down like you might see on other ISP Boards is we're all pretty comfortable that whatever's needing done is in hand. I'm no apologist for poor CS - it's my prime reason for being their customer. Sure we'll see further info before too long.