BT & Plus Net down Broadband service suffers major outage Accross the UK

BT & Plus Net down Broadband service suffers major outage Accross the UK

July 20, 2016 0

GOD SAVE US ALL.. INTERNET Screwed

 

BT's broadband  & phone service is down with an outage leaving people unable to access the internet in several parts of the UK.

BT is country's biggest internet provider reported outages in several areas at around 9.30am on Wednesday 20/07/2017, said it was a power outage at a site in London. The company said it was working to fix the issue.

“We’re sorry that some BT and Plusnet customers are experiencing problems accessing some internet services this morning.” a spokesman said. “This is due to power issues at one of our internet peering partners’ sites in London. Engineers are working to fix things as fast as possible.”

 

Customer support Twitter account said it was attempting to restore service as quickly as possible.

 

Some BT Broadband customers have reported problems accessing websites this morning. Sorry, we're aware of a problem & working to fix asap

BT reported their phone line is down as well on many locations
You can look at the status page
www.bt.com/consumerFaultTracking/public/faults/tracking.do?pageId=31
You can try the folowing steps to get round few internet issues
Set your DNS to Google DNS to avoid some traffic delays
Google Public DNS operates recursive name servers for public use at the following IP addresses:8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 for IPv4 service, as well as 2001:4860:4860::8888 and 2001:4860:4860::8844, for IPv6 access. The addresses are mapped to the nearest operational server by anycast routing.
You can also get more information the Daily Telegraph article 

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