Home
 » ISP News » 
Sponsored Links

UPDATE3 BT Based Broadband ISPs Struck by National UK Outage

Friday, Mar 30th, 2012 (12:02 pm) - Score 2,332

Several BT based ISPs, including Zen Internet, Eclipse Internet, PlusNet and others, are reporting that “a significant number of our broadband customers lost connection to the internet” this morning.

The outage, which hit shortly after 11am this morning, appears to have affected providers across the UK and there are conflicting reports about current service status. Zen Internet states that their customers “suffered a brief disconnection but will have reconnected straight away“. Most routers automatically reconnect after a dropped connection but experiences do vary. Meanwhile other ISPs note the problem as being unresolved / under investigation.

UPDATE 12:33pm

The “huge issue” appears to be affecting thousands of circuits and some ISPs are reporting that the problem is coming out of BT’s Faraday (Hadleigh) telephone exchange. The problem is affecting both 20CN (up to 8Mbps ADSL) and 21CN lines.

UPDATE 12:46pm

It seems as though this is indeed an unresolved issue as several ISPs report customers reconnecting and then being dropped again.

UPDATE 1:35pm

Most broadband lines appear to be back online, albeit via “alternative routes“, although PlusNet claims that the “root cause of the problem remains unresolved“. Some disconnections are likely to occur as ISPs work to rebalance their networks and correct for BT’s changes.

AAISP suggests that 4% of its customers were affected which, when applied nationally, could be quite significant. This has had a huge impact across multiple BT based broadband ISPs but not unbundled / LLU services.

UPDATE 2:21pm

BT claims that the underlying issue has now been fixed but as usual it can take awhile for broadband networks to balance out (see above).

Tags:
Mark-Jackson
By Mark Jackson
Mark is a professional technology writer, IT consultant and computer engineer from Dorset (England), he also founded ISPreview in 1999 and enjoys analysing the latest telecoms and broadband developments. Find me on X (Twitter), Mastodon, Facebook and .
Search ISP News
Search ISP Listings
Search ISP Reviews

Comments are closed

Cheap BIG ISPs for 100Mbps+
Community Fibre UK ISP Logo
150Mbps
Gift: None
Virgin Media UK ISP Logo
Virgin Media £24.00
132Mbps
Gift: None
Shell Energy UK ISP Logo
Shell Energy £26.99
109Mbps
Gift: None
Plusnet UK ISP Logo
Plusnet £27.99
145Mbps
Gift: None
Zen Internet UK ISP Logo
Zen Internet £28.00 - 35.00
100Mbps
Gift: None
Large Availability | View All
Cheapest ISPs for 100Mbps+
Gigaclear UK ISP Logo
Gigaclear £15.00
150Mbps
Gift: None
YouFibre UK ISP Logo
YouFibre £19.99
150Mbps
Gift: None
Community Fibre UK ISP Logo
150Mbps
Gift: None
BeFibre UK ISP Logo
BeFibre £21.00
150Mbps
Gift: £25 Love2Shop Card
Hey! Broadband UK ISP Logo
150Mbps
Gift: None
Large Availability | View All
The Top 15 Category Tags
  1. FTTP (5473)
  2. BT (3505)
  3. Politics (2525)
  4. Openreach (2291)
  5. Business (2251)
  6. Building Digital UK (2234)
  7. FTTC (2041)
  8. Mobile Broadband (1961)
  9. Statistics (1780)
  10. 4G (1654)
  11. Virgin Media (1608)
  12. Ofcom Regulation (1451)
  13. Fibre Optic (1392)
  14. Wireless Internet (1386)
  15. FTTH (1381)

Helpful ISP Guides and Tips

Promotion
Sponsored

Copyright © 1999 to Present - ISPreview.co.uk - All Rights Reserved - Terms , Privacy and Cookie Policy , Links , Website Rules , Contact
Mastodon