they are still here. do you use NTL/virgin? they have some equipment in their network that other providers such as British Telecom do not use, which when it works saves a lot of bandwidth, but when it misbehaves randomly misses out bits of webpages (similar stuff is used on certain mobile broadband providers).

your ISP shares part of its core network with NTL/Virgin, although I’m surprised that this fault would get so deep into the network to hose two ISP’s without being noticed or dealt with (then again faults on this bit of the net knocked out Internet to a large chunk of Felixstowe not so long ago, plus all the engineers got bangalored many years ago from what I remember). I’ve just checked PV from a remote PC 8 miles away (still on BT though but static IP and business circuit) and the posts counts are still there. unfortunately I’ve mislaid the only O2 phone with data and can’t get 3G voda from where I live or I’d check that as well.

not there for me either, but then I’m also virgin media, surely it wouldn’t effect exactly the same thing for 3 dif people though?

@DaftFader 462502 wrote:

not there for me either, but then I’m also virgin media, surely it wouldn’t effect exactly the same thing for 3 dif people though?

it can. Virgin media and other similar ISPs worldwide based on this tech can all suffer from this issue. used to be fairly common when I had NTL back in Reading, though it is unusual though for the fault to affect such a large chunk of the UK…

Ah coolio it’s working for me too.