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Anyone else having rubbish internet today with drop outs and lag etc all evening? My connection has been uniformly erratic since late afternoon.
g8ina (28-04-2020)
VM ? being going since at least 5pm and still having issues; reboot everything and its fine for a bit then just dies again.
Yep Virgin Media has been up and down all day.
Jon
The oddest thing was that as soon as VM was tipping over my Three UK mobile signal went to pot at roughly the same time.
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for all intents it seems to be the same card minus some gays name on it and a shielded cover ? with OEM added to it - GoNz0.
The Virgin sim we have went down the exact same time as the broadband/telephone connection.
Jon
They're not giving away much in the way of details, but there are reports it has affected other Liberty Global ISPs across Europe, and I've also read a couple of places saying other UK ISPs have been affected too. Perhaps it has something to do with those ISPs leasing IP transit from Virgin in some way, or it's a wider routing issue like the BGP misconfiguration issues we've seen take out websites or large networks in the past.
The periodic nature of it is quite curious though.
Home broadband goes down, so people hop on mobile broadband instead and end up flooding that network too.Originally Posted by Terbinator
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cheesemp (28-04-2020)
No it was more exact than that, literally the minute the broadband went down the sim went down at the exact same time
Jon
As far as I know Virgin Media, having one of the largest fibre networks in the country, do provide backhaul for the likes of Three. It depends on what sort of service this is (leased line, routed IP transit or whatever) but it's conceivable this has something to do with it. Large ISPs do depend on each other more than many people realise, especially in more rural areas.
Coincidently a colleague forwarded this onto me yesterday. I very much doubt it is related, may not even be genuine but it makes you think
Ticket number: [redacted]
Ticket status: Open
Ticket type: Scheduled
Ticket update:
Problem fixer: RN Clearance Operations
Problem ends:
Ticket closed:
Ticket Summary: Emergency maintenance affecting [redacted] links
Problem Description:
We have been informed that an un-exploded World War 2 bomb has been discovered approx. 50M from the [redacted] cable that carries [redacted] services between Glasgow and Belfast.
The Navy are due to carry out a controlled explosion and will try to avoid any damage to the cable but there is still a high risk to the cable.
Cable repair teams have been engaged to travel to the location as a precaution.
At this time we have no information about the date or time of the detonation. We will provide further updates as it becomes available.
Affected:
[Redacted]
Actions: (none yet)
Fix:
Time to Fix: (unknown)
that's nothing. A number of people travel daily on the tube below, and right next to a famous UXB embedded by one of the primary road, pedestrian and rail bridges over the Thames. They can't risk disturbing it to extract it and so it just sits there. I'd love to see the risk assessment on that one!!Coincidently a colleague forwarded this onto me yesterday. I very much doubt it is related, may not even be genuine but it makes you think
Is the cable at sea or underwater somewhere?
Wondering why the Navy are dealing with UXB when the Army or RAF seem the more likely choice...
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if it's coastal it will be Navy. IIRC they also deal with some landbased ones in coastal areas too - isn't it based on a zonal thing to do with response time etc? i need to revise my course notes on UXO
Oh, yeah, wait a minute... I read Belfast, but my head said Bristol.
Yeh, of course that'll be in the sea!!
Today must be Tuesday.....
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ik9000 (28-04-2020)
Living near the underwater clearance school I have met a few of the people who do this sort of thing for a living.
As far as I know. Each branch of the military maintains it's own specialism based on the ordnance they use and the threats they face. IEDs (terrorist devices), land mines, shells are typically dealt with by the Army. Bombs and missiles dropped from aircraft the RAF deal with. Royal Navy take on sea mines, torpedoes, ship based missiles and shells. There is a lot of knowledge sharing, cross training and overlap. Response time can trump expertise.
Defusing is the last resort and they all know how to fashion a controlled bang. It's a running joke around here that if you report anything vaguely munition shaped you will have a squad of matlows tripping over themselves to take advantage of the 'training opportunity' and a day out the office.
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