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Living in England, you really need a downtime strategy for your internet connection. While it's seldom a complete country-wide thing like this one, you can sti
by jasonkester 10y ago
Living in England, you really need a downtime strategy for your internet connection. While it's seldom a complete country-wide thing like this one, you can still expect your broadband to drop out for up to an hour at a time at least once every day.
BT is just that incapable of providing DSL to residences.
I live in a tiny village in rural France half the time, and never really think about the internet connection. Just like you never worry that water won't come out of the kitchen sink when you turn it on.
But then I come back to England for the summer and there at the front of my mind several times a day is the Internet connection. Why is it super slow all of a sudden? Hey, it dropped again. I hope it comes back soon because I need to check stuff in. I have a personal hotspot set up on my phone that gets used within my house on a weekly basis. There's an OpenReach van parked out back a couple times a year fixing yet another fault on our line.
Nowhere else I've lived has it been anywhere near this bad. I look forward to the day where BT has some actual competition.
- jon-wood 10y agoI think to an extent it depends where you are. While I'm far from BT's biggest fan, the actual internet connection they provide is pretty reliable here. The piece of crap router on the other hand needs rebooting to bring the wireless networking back up every few days, and has absolutely no logging to diagnose why that's the case.
- ChrisMeek 10y agoI've been with BT for a very long time (5+ years) and other than during unseasonably violent storms this is the first time that I've suffered any kind of outage at all. Not only that but I'm in the middle of nowhere and still get fibre (to cab at least)
- Nexxxeh 10y agoThen you're been very lucky. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/02/03/bt_blames_faulty_router_for_mass_internet_outage/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/02/03/bt_blames_faulty_rou... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/11/17/bt_outage_three_days_fix/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/11/17/bt_outage_three_days... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/07/29/bt_broadband_in_broadbased_brownout_and_titsup_incidents/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/07/29/bt_broadband_in_broa... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/12/12/bt_infinity_working_to_fix_the_problem_after_three_days_of_outages/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/12/12/bt_infinity_working_... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/06/30/bt_major_dns_outage/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/06/30/bt_major_dns_outage/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/02/25/bt_cable_theft/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/02/25/bt_cable_theft/ And that's in just over two years.