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[MR MISTER]

Anyone else having problems? The bb helpline is busy, and so is 150!

[chrisgixer]

Nope. Not now we're on Virgin.

[MR MISTER]

Big outage in Hull so had to pay £6 for a bt wifi day pass so wifey can do some work.

[tunnie]

From BT:

Due to suspected Cable Thefts & damage caused by 3rd parties, a small number of our customers in the below areas, may experience a loss of telephone and/or broadband services. We hope to have service restored as quickly as possible and apologise for any inconvenience this may be causing.

West Bromwich - 0121 (estimated clear date 22/10/2013)
Portglenone- 0282582-(estimated clear date 21/10/2013)

Wrington- 0193486-(estimated clear date 21/10/2013)

Tarvin- 0182974 (estimated clear date 21/10/2013)
Madeley- 0178275 (estimated clear date 21/10/2013)

Armagh- 02837, 02810 (estimated clear date 20/10/2013)
Egremont- 0194682 (estimated clear date 20/10/2013)
Gourock- 014756 (estimated clear date 20/10/2013)
St Buryan- 0173681 (estimated clear date 20/10/2013)
Killyleagh- 0284482 (estimated clear date 20/10/2013)
Canterbury - 01227 (estimated clear date 20/10/2013)
Please revisit this page for further updates

[MR MISTER]

That's not the one on the sky site. It says problems in Hull affecting Scarborough Filey Wakefield Pontefract and lots of other areas in yorkshire.

[MR MISTER]

Leven, Pontefract, Sandal, Scarborough, South Elmsall, West Ayton, Whitley Bridge and Withernsea. From sky service website.

[MR MISTER]

Back on, exchange fault apparently. Good old bt/openreach working on a Sunday

[chrisgixer]

Open reach need lining up against a wall IMO.

Readyaimfire.

[Gaffers]

Open reach need lining up against a wall IMO.

Readyaimfire.

Shooting them is a waste of perfectly good ammunition

[Taxi_Driver]

Open reach need lining up against a wall IMO.

Readyaimfire.

Ive always found openreach very good tbh, very quick......its the uselss contractors they use that take 5 weeks to dig a 3ft trench for them and then, so i was told, charge them £500 for the privilege. If my back wasnt iffy, id be there tomorrow digging holes for them at that price! 

[TheBoy]

Back on, exchange fault apparently. Good old bt/openreach working on a Sunday

Don't be so sure, Sky have an awful lot of LLU, because the daft morons bought up Easynet and (trying still) O2/Be. So it *may* be Sky equipment in the BT exchange thats failed, and needed a good kicking. If there was a lot of working BT WiFi or BT Openzone, as in the sort dished out by other residential customers, that does imply that at least some BT Retail customers were working, so at least some of the BT owned DSLAMs in the exchange were good

It could of course be that I was in one of the major Yorkshire point of presence sites last week, because I break everything I touch

[TheBoy]

Open reach need lining up against a wall IMO.

Readyaimfire.

Ive always found openreach very good tbh, very quick......its the uselss contractors they use that take 5 weeks to dig a 3ft trench for them and then, so i was told, charge them £500 for the privilege. If my back wasnt iffy, id be there tomorrow digging holes for them at that price! 

Its a flipping joke. I still did all that crap just when it started to change over that we had to get contractors to dig the holes to keep the do-gooders happy. Now my UG fault finding skills are piss poor, so there was always an element of guesswork. So pay £150 (I think it was back then) to dig the hole, I return once they have done this, open the joint, prove the fault is a bit further down, pay another £150, turn up again, find the fault is in the length, so need the original hole open again (as the go-gooders insist its only open 2 days)...   ...mental.

[Taxi_Driver]

Open reach need lining up against a wall IMO.

Readyaimfire.

Ive always found openreach very good tbh, very quick......its the uselss contractors they use that take 5 weeks to dig a 3ft trench for them and then, so i was told, charge them £500 for the privilege. If my back wasnt iffy, id be there tomorrow digging holes for them at that price! 

Its a flipping joke. I still did all that crap just when it started to change over that we had to get contractors to dig the holes to keep the do-gooders happy. Now my UG fault finding skills are piss poor, so there was always an element of guesswork. So pay £150 (I think it was back then) to dig the hole, I return once they have done this, open the joint, prove the fault is a bit further down, pay another £150, turn up again, find the fault is in the length, so need the original hole open again (as the go-gooders insist its only open 2 days)...   ...mental.

Its a bit easier for them now......handheld gadget that tells them how many feet away the fault is......so you only have to be able to use a tape measure really 

[TheBoy]

Open reach need lining up against a wall IMO.

Readyaimfire.

Ive always found openreach very good tbh, very quick......its the uselss contractors they use that take 5 weeks to dig a 3ft trench for them and then, so i was told, charge them £500 for the privilege. If my back wasnt iffy, id be there tomorrow digging holes for them at that price! 

Its a flipping joke. I still did all that crap just when it started to change over that we had to get contractors to dig the holes to keep the do-gooders happy. Now my UG fault finding skills are piss poor, so there was always an element of guesswork. So pay £150 (I think it was back then) to dig the hole, I return once they have done this, open the joint, prove the fault is a bit further down, pay another £150, turn up again, find the fault is in the length, so need the original hole open again (as the go-gooders insist its only open 2 days)...   ...mental.

Its a bit easier for them now......handheld gadget that tells them how many feet away the fault is......so you only have to be able to use a tape measure really 

We had Moles back then, although not heldheld like the modern ones, but they only work for broken wires, not for batt/earth faults (which most non-joint ug faults are). I believe they still have to revert to meggers and whatever that whestone bridge was called.

I did have a dis fault between a cab and a pillar, about 4km apart, once. Mole good for 2km. Measured from both ends, worked out roughly where it would be, and throw a spade in the ground....  ....straight on a joint (though fault was 20m away in another buried joint).