FYI - it failed again at 17:41 this afternoon

- same pattern as tuesday - connectivity to various servers lost for about a minute and then all returned accept the connection to the same problem server. It's like something in the network switched over this morning and has now switched back.
Oh well - I'm off to London shortly - lets see if it's still bust when I return tomorrow night.
Judging by the people affected I would say it may be in the Nottingham network somewhere.