Bloody BT and above.net

Tony

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Oct 8, 2012, 6:31:05 PM10/8/12

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I know there's no one here any more, but I felt like ranting.

BT have had issues with their above.net peering since Friday. At about 7pm
it goes to shit, by about midnight it's not bad again. It's been like that
every night.

It's obviously either BT or above.net but it's impossible to get through to
anyone in a company the size of BT who understands that.
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Jim Crowther

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Oct 8, 2012, 9:06:32 PM10/8/12

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In uk.net.providers, on Mon, 8 Oct 2012 23:31:05, Tony wrote:

>I know there's no one here any more, but I felt like ranting.
>
>BT have had issues with their above.net peering since Friday. At about 7pm
>it goes to shit, by about midnight it's not bad again. It's been like that
>every night.
>
>It's obviously either BT or above.net but it's impossible to get through to
>anyone in a company the size of BT who understands that.

Guess (just one reason) why I'm staying with A&A, despite the extra
cost. ;)

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Jim Crowther

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Tony

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Oct 9, 2012, 3:07:03 AM10/9/12

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In uk.net.providers, Jim Crowther

I moved because I can't get cable in this area and I like ~68Mbps. Mostly
the service is excellent, just can't seem to get through to them that this
issue is real.

Stephen Wolstenholme

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Oct 9, 2012, 6:39:22 AM10/9/12

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On Mon, 08 Oct 2012 23:31:05 +0100, Tony <to...@darkstorm.invalid>
wrote:

>I know there's no one here any more, but I felt like ranting.
>
>BT have had issues with their above.net peering since Friday. At about 7pm
>it goes to shit, by about midnight it's not bad again. It's been like that
>every night.
>
>It's obviously either BT or above.net but it's impossible to get through to
>anyone in a company the size of BT who understands that.

I have not had any trouble with btinternet.com so they must have
something working.

Steve

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Tony

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Oct 9, 2012, 6:42:59 AM10/9/12

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On 2012-10-09, Stephen Wolstenholme <st...@npsl1.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 08 Oct 2012 23:31:05 +0100, Tony <to...@darkstorm.invalid>
> wrote:
>
>>I know there's no one here any more, but I felt like ranting.
>>
>>BT have had issues with their above.net peering since Friday. At about 7pm
>>it goes to shit, by about midnight it's not bad again. It's been like that
>>every night.
>>
>>It's obviously either BT or above.net but it's impossible to get through to
>>anyone in a company the size of BT who understands that.
>
> I have not had any trouble with btinternet.com so they must have
> something working.

They have everything working outside 7pm to midnight, and even then,
anything which doesn't require peering with above.net works fine. So
for example, Facebook, the BBC, and many other sites and services work
fine, but Twitter, EA online games, Eve Online all suffer shocking
packet loss.

Daniel James

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Oct 10, 2012, 8:09:30 AM10/10/12

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In article <k4vk59$pgh$1...@matrix.darkstorm.co.uk>, Tony wrote:
> I know there's no one here any more, but I felt like ranting.

I'm here ... and I like a good rant ...

> BT have had issues with their above.net peering since Friday.

Would that be this?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/10/09/bt_peering_trouble_prevents_som
e_customers_from_accessing_certain_websites/

Seems a little bad publicity in the right places can get things moving!

(Call that a rant? Could do better!)

Cheers,
Daniel