Dunstable exchange down.

[Koala5]

Hiya peeps,
Lost internet connection completely yellow adsl light. Easynet says Luton, Hemel, Leagrave and Dunstable have problems because of a fibre break.
Ok my mates son rang panicing because he cant get on his Xbox! and wants me to go round and have a look coz his Dads away on business, they are on the same exchange but with orange, are the problems likely to be related?

[Isitme]

They probably are, it looks like the fibre connection from the exchange to the internet is down.*

*I think it is called the 'backhaul'.

[Koala5]

Cheers for the reply! His rung me about 3 times tonight, poor little mite is lost cos he cant get his xbox on line, he cant understand why his mate down the road on Virgin is up and running, tried to explain to him about differen't providers and dug myself a bigger hole! he's only 12 I dunno kids of today anyone would think the world had come to an end lol, oh yeah it has! the Xbox cyber world
Must be fairly major its been down since lunchtime with no further update on easynet at the moment.

[Undecided Adrian]

well given that Virgin has been having problems since yesterday his mate isn't having all his own way.

What is going on at the moment there seems to be a lot of problems this week.

[Koala5]

Well someone round here's broadband is working, I haven't a clue who it is but they are not very good at setting up there wireless security !

[duckula67]

1am and it's still down. Anyone got any new info?

[Anqel]

Does anyone have any idea how much longer this is going on for,as this is interferring with my home phone also.I phoned sky yesterday at 4pm.I was told 4 to 5 hour`s. Luckily i have my son`s usb stick...LoL

[duckula67]

Oh my god. The wife is having Facebook withdrawal

[dsldude]

We are having connectivity problems to the the Dunstable, Hemel Hempstead, Leagrave and Luton exchanges.

This will affect customers with usernames @smdb, @smhh, @smlea and @smlt

Our engineers are investigating.

[09/03/2010 15:31:55]
This outage is being cause by a fibre break. Engineers are investigating

[10/03/2010 09:09:20]
Due to fibre break being underground it's taking a while to locate and fixed this issue

[10/03/2010 12:52:53]
Debris stuck in fibre duct, telco are trying to free it.

[10/03/2010 14:08:11]
Telco has told us that they expect the outage to be a further 24 - 48 hours and have declared it force majeure.

[Omgitsmachoo]

I think this is diacraseful that they have let it be down for so long. They told me that it should be fixed by the 15th