- Orange Outage
- Posted by Martin on October 17th, 2006
The BBC have run this report:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/6058154.stm
But they have stopped people adding comments on the state of the orange
Broad band outage.
a friend of mine has started a blog called Angry at orange
http://angry-at-orange.blogspot.com/ for anyone else to respond, which
will be submitted to oftel and orange eventually.
Hope people find it useful!
Martin.
- Posted by Gizmo on October 18th, 2006
"Martin" <Martin.Nikel@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1161094957.500021.157150@f16g2000cwb.googlegr oups.com...
All ISPs have outages, get over it.
Even Telehouse has had a couple of outages this year.
Buy cheap, get cheap.
Tough shit.
- Posted by Andrew Gabriel on October 18th, 2006
In article <1161094957.500021.157150@f16g2000cwb.googlegroups .com>,
"Martin" <Martin.Nikel@gmail.com> writes:
BBC Radio 4 covered the Orange outage on "You and Yours" at
lunchtime today.
--
Andrew Gabriel
- Posted by Pier Danone on October 19th, 2006
"Andrew Gabriel" <andrew@cucumber.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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| In article <1161094957.500021.157150@f16g2000cwb.googlegroups .com>,
| "Martin" <Martin.Nikel@gmail.com> writes:
| > The BBC have run this report:
| >
| > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/6058154.stm
|
| BBC Radio 4 covered the Orange outage on "You and Yours" at
| lunchtime today.
Oh thank God for the BBC. Is that the broadcaster who can't get the sound right
in the morning or get links to local studios without delay jumps?
Is that the broadcaster who can't get it's morning news staff to read without
tripping over their words?
In fact, I've had six BBC outages this year. I make a note of them when they
happen. 2 Specific to digital, the other 4 general. One just a week ago when
their Isle of White Transmitter went down. Who are they to comment on a free
service from Orange when they can't keep their paid for service working
properly?
- Posted by simonclark123@hotmail.com on October 19th, 2006
Check out www.theregister.com
They have an interesting snippet from an Orange 'insider'.
Apparently, a 'mistake' was made, which necessitated an engineer
visiting each of the 4,000 exchanges to restore normal service!
Regards
Simon Clark
Business Telecoms
- Posted by Mark Carver on October 19th, 2006
Pier Danone wrote:
A week ago ? that was only Monday, the transmitter (Rowridge) is on
the Isle of Wight. National Grid Wireless actually operate the site, as
the Beeb flogged off all their transmitters about 10 years ago. Power
failure, knocked out all four analogue channels, though ITV and C4
bounced back on a lot faster, and radio and DTT was only off for a
minute.
- Posted by Mark Carver on October 19th, 2006
simonclark123@hotmail.com wrote:
He must have been a busy chap then !
- Posted by Pier Danone on October 20th, 2006
"Mark Carver" <markcarver@onetel.com> wrote in message
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|
| Pier Danone wrote:
|
| > In fact, I've had six BBC outages this year. I make a note of them when they
| > happen. 2 Specific to digital, the other 4 general. One just a week ago when
| > their Isle of White Transmitter went down. Who are they to comment on a free
| > service from Orange when they can't keep their paid for service working
| > properly?
|
| A week ago ? that was only Monday, the transmitter (Rowridge) is on
| the Isle of Wight. National Grid Wireless actually operate the site, as
| the Beeb flogged off all their transmitters about 10 years ago. Power
| failure, knocked out all four analogue channels, though ITV and C4
| bounced back on a lot faster, and radio and DTT was only off for a
| minute.
|
Like an ISP, how the BBC operate their infastructure is not an issue the end
user cares about.
I find it ironic that the BBC can comment on other peoples outages and quality
of service!
- Posted by Mark Carver on October 20th, 2006
Pier Danone wrote:
So it's OK for an ISP to switch its customers from BTW IPStream to LLU
without telling them ?
- Posted by Maneate on October 20th, 2006
"Mark Carver" <markcarver@onetel.com> wrote in message
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Providing the quality of service, etc, is not effected I do not see why not.
You will probably find in the T&C's that they are allowed to change things
like this without asking the user first.
J
- Posted by NoNeedToKnow on October 20th, 2006
On 20 Oct 2006, "Maneate" <maneate@nospam.btinternet.com> wrote:
When it becomes as simple to migrate from an LLU service to any other, the
"etc" will finally "not be affected", IMO.
Yes, unfortunately, despite this aspect currently being a major problem...
