Word is trickling down from several UK ISPs that equipment on the BT 20CN platform in Scotland and the North of England has been struck by a serious fault, which is preventing people from being able to establish a connection with their broadband ISP.



There are also more specific 20CN outages in the Nairn and Laggan areas, with an apparently separate 21CN issue affecting Stepney Green. In related news, some 2,200 residents and businesses in Newark are also being hit by a power fault.

It should be noted that the 20CN platform traditionally carries BT's older 'up to 8Mbps' ADSL broadband services, which ISPs are slowly replacing with the faster 'up to 24Mbps' ADSL2+ packages on 21CN.

UPDATE 14:52pm

We have learnt that the problem is centred on BT's Edinburgh node, which has suffered a RAS failure.

UPDATE 21st September 2010

The problems appear to have been corrected and service should now be back to normal for everybody. Any customers still unable to connect should power their broadband equipment off for 30 minutes before attempting to reconnect.