[Merged] Manchester Issues

scrotnig · 29-11-2005, 22:57

I'm in Manchester, and about half an hour ago broadband and TV died completely. Nothing at all. The boxes won't even boot.

I have been out of the business a while now, I am guessing that the network is no longer monitored outside office hours, so this will now be down until at least tomorrow....does anyone know any better?

I would say it's not a fault that will be affecting just me, I think others will be affected too.

And in case anyone's wondering, I'm posting from a dialup.

Wallace · 29-11-2005, 23:07

Quote:

Originally Posted by scrotnig

I'm in Manchester, and about half an hour ago broadband and TV died completely. Nothing at all. The boxes won't even boot.

I have been out of the business a while now, I am guessing that the network is no longer monitored outside office hours, so this will now be down until at least tomorrow....does anyone know any better?

I would say it's not a fault that will be affecting just me, I think others will be affected too.

And in case anyone's wondering, I'm posting from a dialup.

I am in South Manchester and TV an BB is fine, not gone off at all, sorry.

scrotnig · 29-11-2005, 23:14

Hmm, perhaps someone's vandalised a cabinet then or something. That sort of area really.

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Well the faults line is reporting an outage affecting Stockport....although that isn't exactly where I am, I happen to know that Stockport outages *always* affect me, so that'll be what it is.

Seems well handled then, you ring and there's a recorded message about it.....quite efficient really. What have they been up to since I left? :o

scoper · 30-11-2005, 00:03

ntl home120 modem

Upgraded to 10Mb from 2MB at the weekend. Been getting wildly random results however tonight seems to be particularly bad:

Tue, 29 Nov 2005 22:58:23 UTC
1st 128K took 1688 ms = 77649 Bytes/sec = approx 646 kbits/sec
2nd 128K took 218 ms = 601248 Bytes/sec = approx 5002 kbits/sec
3rd 128K took 657 ms = 199501 Bytes/sec = approx 1660 kbits/sec
4th 128K took 625 ms = 209715 Bytes/sec = approx 1745 kbits/sec

This usually shows around 7Mb but is obviously fairly terrible tonight.
Does anyone know of any problems in the area? I've checked the status and apparently no problems!

Marge · 30-11-2005, 00:49

I lost my connection about 9.30pm, tv and broadband and only just got back on now. I checked with the neighbours and they had lost their services too. Oh well, all now working and happily surfing ..........

ppolo99 · 30-11-2005, 00:56

Im in withington, all's been good here, gf lives in rusholme and fine there also :S

scrotnig · 30-11-2005, 00:58

Mine has just come back, so must be the same problem as Marge.

That was all very efficient...outage, recorded message, fix....sorted in less than two and a half hours. Can't complain.

Florence · 30-11-2005, 01:20

My connection also died last night I didn't expect to have it back until later today perhaps someone does care after all.
I go through Ashton/Oldham for my connections

altis · 30-11-2005, 10:03

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IMHO, there is mounting evidence of widespread problems around here.

garybuk · 30-11-2005, 10:56

My NTL was knocked out about 9pm yesterday till about midnight, Ran tech support up and they said a problem in the Stockport & Surrounding Areas was affected. I connect to Oldham but have a Stockport Postcode.

When I first upgraded to 10mb i was getting around 1.1mbps download now I usually am lucky to get 800kbps which Isn't bad compared to 350kbps on 3mbps but it's not great compared to what other users are getting.

I've not meithered NTL as it's still a trial yet but when it's out properly I may give them a ring and ask them to do a quick check and see if it's not my Cable Modem (a horrible looking Silver Ambit thing).

th'engineer · 30-11-2005, 11:27

strangely no outages must be a south manc problem

Florence · 30-11-2005, 11:45

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Originally Posted by th'engineer

strangely no outages must be a south manc problem

I go through Oldham and was out from 9pm till midnight I wonder if th'engineer has a new connection..

let see if the outage fixed all the irregular dropping of the internet that has plagued me for months now.

squirrel1970 · 30-11-2005, 15:32

Yup, same thing here last night (SK5 area). Modem did try a couple of times to reconnect, but it was about midnight when everything came back on and so far it's all tickety-boo around here.
Didn't have the luxury of dialup to reconnect (we had to remove the internal modem to fit in a decent graphics card some time ago and it's no fault of anyones but the computers manufacturer... so little space for anything!) to find out what was going on.
Finding that speeds had been fluctuating prior to the massive outage. Had been calling CS and TS for the last couple of weeks or so for upgrade in speed (usual stories.. Indian Call Centre.. blah blah blah)
Today, everything seems fine. Lets hope it stays that way

daxx · 30-11-2005, 20:41

No problem noticed last night (TV or BB) on baguely end of the bits, even tho I've got an SK postcode

Rone · 30-11-2005, 21:46

There were problems tonight, when mine went off earlier, i rang tech support, it told me "167 people waiting", and a "high volume of calls", that told me enough, so i hung and waited 30mins, on it came.
But recently the dead reliable NTL has been the crappest of services.
If its to do with 10 meg, ok, a bit of trouble is expected, lets hope it does'nt get worse than this.