Played with everything, the online checker shower fault on their network.
we have no dial tone, but you can ring the house phone...but we cant answer it.
Broadband...was fine, suspect it went for a resync, found no dialtone, so gave up.
As for Sky, too many people I work with have real problems using our corporate VPN with them, as it is unsupported, and may even be against their t's and c's iirc, like using your own router on sky!
Ill stick to O2 cheers

Estimate fix date...16th, Im really hoping it comes back today.
How am I meant to know one 'netgear' network from another, thought I was connecting to a known one

(i use theirs occasionally, at times like this, signal is useless, and I have to be in a specific place with the wind in the right direction for it to work, not a substitute for my own by any means, but a handy 'get out of jail free' card)