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April 1 ADSL outage hits ISPs and users

Posted by Mr magoo on 02 April 2003 - 15:14 · 15 comments & 947 views

Great April Fools joke, from a company that is a joke!

Part of BT's ADSL network was knocked out last night causing disruption to thousands of Net users in the UK. According to BT Wholesale, some 30 ISPs, including AOL UK, Freeserve and Pipex, were hit following a sizeable outage in the Ilford, Essex area. BT reckons the problems were isolated to London and the South East and reports that only around 13,000 end users were affected.

But this has been disputed by some ISPs. AOL UK confirmed that several thousand of its customers were hit, while Pipex said that the outage downed more than 20,000 of its users. The Register is also aware that the entire customer base of one smaller ISP also lost their ADSL connections following last night's outage.

The incident began around 20.30BST last night and lasted for around two hours. Although the problem was resolved last night some ISPs reported this morning that they were still trying to get customers back online. One ISP described last night's bother as the "worst outage for a while". Another was angry that they first heard about the outage from customers, rather than BT.

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#1 Posted by Knight' on 02 Apr 2003 - 15:22: Didn't effect me, but still - bad news.

#2 Posted by Mctnguy on 02 Apr 2003 - 15:25: Funny, my PPPoE ISP was down last nite for a couple of hours too.... and I'm in Eastern Canada! Coincidence??!!

#3 Posted by Fil on 02 Apr 2003 - 15:25: Well that explains that then. Lost all net access from around 8pm - got some back around 11-ish. I'm down in Dorset and on Freeserve. I'm not near London, and the South-East is more Brighton area isn't it? I'm more Southerly. Methinks BT are hiding the truth..... which is out there.... I think.

(2 replies) #4 Posted by Chicane-UK on 02 Apr 2003 - 15:36: Hahaha - [b]"Great April Fools joke, from a company that is a joke!"[/b]

#5 Posted by Skeddy on 02 Apr 2003 - 15:44: I got affected

#6 Posted by atpcz on 02 Apr 2003 - 16:10: i got done also. on plusnet in east london. think my btopenworld back home in south london was also affected

#7 Posted by dustjunky on 02 Apr 2003 - 17:16: We got affected up here in the North (Sheffield) Bloomin lying ^%&£ at BT!

#8 Posted by Deryck on 02 Apr 2003 - 18:56: I strted to notice the decline on Sunday when I could only just log onto MSN Hotmail. Then yesterday, I could not even log onto my account before the service was non-existant. Now it seems fine.

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#9 Posted by Kombatant on 02 Apr 2003 - 20:59: Everything a-otay here in Reading

#10 Posted by Quick Reply on 02 Apr 2003 - 23:41: [QUOTE]Great April Fools joke, from a company that is a joke![/QUOTE] ROFL!!

#11 Posted by Michael Lerner on 03 Apr 2003 - 00:06: HAHAHA BURN, BT, BURN

#12 Posted by Eversurf on 03 Apr 2003 - 02:43: Did you guys know that two major ISP in the Us were also nailed yesterday. They were pratically down for the whole day. I'm talking about Verizon and another company. My cable modem connection was very shaky too. I did a traceroute to some known addresses and they showed a different path then usual. This makes me think that either a link, a switch or a core router was down. Very strangely, it was not reported anywhere. Makes me wonder, and its freaking me out a little.

#13 Posted by garymchughuk on 03 Apr 2003 - 11:54: i user nildram.net, the only provider that does not use BT as a backbone, hence, I didnt get knocked out! another advantage of using them is i have quicker adsl line than any bt direct or bt indirect user.

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