200M : Virgin Media down accross the country.

[RichardCoulter]

Originally Posted by spiderplant

Yes, that's exactly what was done. Often the systems will do it automatically without you even noticing the break, but in this case it required manual intervention.

Does this sometimes cause pages to take ages to load or connect, or is it so fast that the end user wouldn't notice?

[spiderplant]

Originally Posted by RichardCoulter

Does this sometimes cause pages to take ages to load or connect, or is it so fast that the end user wouldn't notice?

It will vary depending on the nature of the fault. Some faults are easier/quicker to detect than others.

[RichardCoulter]

Originally Posted by spiderplant

It will vary depending on the nature of the fault. Some faults are easier/quicker to detect than others.

Ahhh, ok