My BQM has had dropped packets since. Maybe I've got a worse gateway than prior. My first action when the problem came was to reboot router.

So what exactly was the problem. I see the register says " you may receive an error stating that your browser is unable to find the site specified" which sounds like it may have been a DNS issue which wouldn't affect me either as I don't us theirs.

It looks a bit that way from the usage graphs. A big drop in traffic, but the users online just displays some ups and downs between gateways as people reboot their routers to see if that fixes their problem.

Yes it was DNS, just look at the DNS Response Time Graph between 8:30am and 10:30 am.

Edited by deleted (Tue 04-Mar-14 16:38:55)

Don't know for sure if it's related but it looks likes it's still happening this evening in central Glasgow. Nearly unusable with pages taking an age or failing to load

edit - ...aaannd 10 minutes after I post that everything returns to normal. Typical.

Edited by deleted (Tue 04-Mar-14 21:08:51)

I've had the same on-and-off for the last hour or so.

Not had any issues with my PN BB connection any time I've had to use it today.

Was that another 5 minute wobble then?

Possibly - I had just read the article and comments on El Reg and when I tried coming back here got nothing. Back now, though...

Well I spoke to someone on another exchange at the time, and they too had the issues. Identical to yesterday.

At this rate, I'll be setting up my own routing tables.