Temporary Congestion in Leeds, Manchester, Derby and Nottingham Areas

[sam.ridley90]

Taken from official O2 service status.

'We are making some improvements to the network in the Leeds, Manchester, Derby and Nottingham areas which may cause slower than usual browsing speeds with your broadband service. This work will take place between 10:00pm 09/12/2009 and 01:00am 10/12/2009'

[jayoasis]

Will this also be causing slowness in the WA10 area of St Helens?

[NewsreadeR]

Nope but this maybe. (in WA9) and it has been crappy all night.

Not sure if this is affecting anyone?

Within the last 30 minutes, the London Internet Exchange (LINX) has a major problem that caused instability and loss of connectivity. Our bandwidth providers have shut down their connections to LINX so we are no longer directly affected by it.

However, as LINX carries such an enormous volume of traffic (and the majority of the UK's internet traffic) it is quite possible that some connectivity may still be less than perfect as other providers may still have their port enabled and/or have congestion on other circuits.

We have that sent to us this evening by our hosting company.

Slow Internet This Evening

[jayoasis]

yes, they have a fibre out but they did say it wouldn't cause any issues

[NewsreadeR]

I understood this work was to be started after 10pm the internet has been goosed all night, from just before we got that email as printed above, that came through at 6.21pm this evening, so I am not convinced it's the scheduled maintenance.

As long as the other ISPs change their peering it should get better. Sky customers and o2 have been struggling all night.

[sam.ridley90]

Well, don't know whether it is related but I had a random router reset last night at around 10pm, my router dropped a meg off the sync (8812) and my throughput was only approx 1meg until around midnight. The best i've done is 3 meg in the last 24 hours.

The O2 tech support is down as well, they say its 'scheduled maintence' but when I rang up yesterday they said it would be fixed by this morning at 10am, but as of writing, its still not resolved.

slightly annoying.....

[stu_uk]

Im still getting pants laggy connection this morning.

Rebooted router a few times so am putting it down to a over run of part failure.

[neilmcl]

It seems to be back to normal again now.