Broadband

Mon 4 Jun 2018, 08:32 (last edited on Mon 4 Jun 2018, 08:33)

Sun 3 Jun 2018, 20:56

Download speed back to normal - 70+ MB/s

Sun 3 Jun 2018, 15:20

Which cabinet was that? Ours is up the east end of Enstone Rd near the Slade/Nineacres crossroad. I got the impression it wasn't just this cabinet that must have failed to cover the areas unless the wiring is even weirder than expected! Forgot about the batteries, which we found out about following the car collision event a few years back. Perhaps if there is a fail upstream it means that all below in the distribution need to be reset. I find it rather disconcerting how tenuous the thread holding the internet together is, seeing how dependent I am on it now. It's not been a long time - been "on the internet" since to 80s and the founding of GreenNet with everything ftp'd. And then the founding of Demon when the World Wide Web began to form in the early 90s. It's not that long when you think about it. ADSL, cable etc is really only since the early 2000's for always-on connection. Frightening.

Sat 2 Jun 2018, 22:35

After they trip out, the cabinets run off battery back-up power for a number of hours. When the battery eventually runs down, internet access dies. This explains why it cut out some time after the storm passed. Very informative eningeer explained whilst rebooting the cabinet.

Fri 1 Jun 2018, 23:23

Mine was disconnected at 11pm last night. :(
Happily it is back on now.

Fri 1 Jun 2018, 22:48

Malcolm

I think you are correct. A number of cabinets in Charlbury were isolated from the exchange progressively this morning. Whilst you appear to have been disconnected in the early hours (well early for me), Dyers Hill was not disconnected until 8.30am. A little odd for a storm that had passed by 10pm?

On the upside my sync speed is now considerably fastet

Fri 1 Jun 2018, 22:29

I wasn't asleep at just after 5am when the internet suddenly quit mid-streaming a podcast (anyone else get fibromyalgia "painsomnia"? - you'll know what I mean..)

As far as I was aware there wasn't any significant rain at that point, the storm had been hours before when water started encroaching on the Rosie pub. So if a box got shorted by water it must have had a leak work through a seal, or run-off accumulating with a time lag. However, when I contacted the Phone Coop tech support at 5.30am they told me there had been 28 dropouts on my line since 13.00h the day before, indicating a hardware problem (increasing?). It could have been coincidence of course, with two separate faults. I'm going to contact the tekkies now that I am reminded to see if things have improved since coming back online. A tip - if you want to talk to a real engineer ring in the early hours, the script-kiddie "technical" support go home earlier...

Fri 1 Jun 2018, 20:01

Back on for Dyers Hill. Spoke to the Open Reach engineer. The cabinet had simply tripped out in the storm.

Fri 1 Jun 2018, 20:00

But slow - getting only 4mb/s in Wychwood Paddocks..

Fri 1 Jun 2018, 19:02

It's back

Fri 1 Jun 2018, 17:52

No BT Broadband up on Elm Crescent either

Fri 1 Jun 2018, 13:29

No internet on Dyers Hill.

Fri 1 Jun 2018, 12:58

No internet here on the green all morning so far

Fri 1 Jun 2018, 12:36

Talk Talk working in Woodfield Drive (surprisingly!).

Fri 1 Jun 2018, 12:19

The WiFi is working at the Community Centre and there's plenty of space to work in the cafe/library area.

Fri 1 Jun 2018, 11:20

Update BT say won't be fixed until 10am Saturday !

Fri 1 Jun 2018, 10:06

None here in Wychwood Close BT.

Fri 1 Jun 2018, 09:40

No plusnet / BT at The Green when I left for working this morning around 9:25am

Fri 1 Jun 2018, 09:14

We're on BT near Fiveways. No problems.

Fri 1 Jun 2018, 09:13

I'm on BT no probs

Fri 1 Jun 2018, 09:10

Alas, my ISP (Zen) said it is a MSO (Major service outage) and won't be fixed until around 6:00 pm this evening.

Fri 1 Jun 2018, 08:38

BT reports that fault reported at 4.17 and should be fixed by 9.18.

Hope so!

Fri 1 Jun 2018, 08:16

None on the Green (BT) this morning

Fri 1 Jun 2018, 08:03

All fine up here.

Fri 1 Jun 2018, 07:47

No Talk talk broadband in Ticknell Piece

Fri 1 Jun 2018, 07:40

Also no WiFi. Was OK last night, but down now. Ditchley Rd area.

Fri 1 Jun 2018, 07:39

No internet here :(

Fri 1 Jun 2018, 07:19

Is anyone else got no internet this morning after last night's storm