Serious BT broadband outages
p2p news / p2pnet: Problems with British telecom giant BT Group, which bills itself as the world’s oldest communications company, meant its broadband customers suffered significant outages between 8:30AM and 11:30AM on Wednesday.
"Three servers were the cause of the problem, which affected customers randomly around the United Kingdom, according to BT," says Silicon.com.
"A BT representative said the outages resulted from increased congestion on the network, preventing fresh users from logging on, although those already connected via BT’s broadband network experienced no service interruption."
The company says it’s launched an investigation, adds the story.
Also read:-
Silicon.com – Net outage hits Brits, December 1, 2005
December 2nd, 2005 at 3:53 pm
BT is probably the worse ISP you could ever choose. They are more expensive than the other services (which run on the same lines), and they impose download limits. The limits are usually something stupid like 3 gig a month.
I download on average, 3-6 gig a day, so that would be useless. I prefer to have a smaller bandwidth and no limits personally. Can’t wait for the new 20mb ukonline/BE connections to get to my area
December 2nd, 2005 at 10:27 pm
I’ll be on 8mbit LLU (Local Loop Unbundled) ADSL monday (Hopefully). Then next year ADSL2+. BT are always way behind everyone else anyhow. So will probably be glad to leave them.