No internet in parts of London

doodah · 31 Mar 2010 at 13:42

A random thread I know but it appears certain parts of London are without the internet. My mother just rang, she works in the City of London next to Barbican station, she claims quite a lot of others are affected. An exchange got flooded. Has anyone heard about this yet? Skimming some news sites but nothing so far. Can anyone provide information is possible please?

anything I don't mind · 31 Mar 2010 at 13:43

Murf · 31 Mar 2010 at 13:43

Terrorists.

robgmun · 31 Mar 2010 at 13:44

Just to make you aware, the Paddington BT Exchange has had a flood resulting in many customers experiencing problems with their telephone lines. The outages apply to other carriers too, not necessarily just BT lines.

We'll provide you with another update when we know everything has been resolved.

We can't make out bound calls for now, inbound is ok!

G-MAN2004 · 31 Mar 2010 at 13:44

I'd answer but my Internet isn't working!

doodah · 31 Mar 2010 at 13:45

G-MAN2004 said:
I'd answer but my Internet isn't working!

matt_fsr · 31 Mar 2010 at 13:47

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/31/burne_house_burns/

Floods? Fire? Surely someone there can tell the difference? :confused:

doodah · 31 Mar 2010 at 13:47

robgmun said:
We can't make out bound calls for now, inbound is ok!

Thanks - where did you get that?

Amp34 · 31 Mar 2010 at 13:50

matt_fsr said:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/31/burne_house_burns/

Floods? Fire? Surely someone there can tell the difference?

Well, small fire leading to flooding by the fire service?

Simmz · 31 Mar 2010 at 13:51

Padding exchange is down.

Burst pipe leading to 5 foot of water.

Fire brigade are currently clearing it out.

shauncr91 · 31 Mar 2010 at 13:56

dbappa said:
My mother just rang, she works in the City of London next to Barbican station, she claims quite a lot of others are affected.

Dunno why but this reminded me of the South Park episode where the internet goes down and everyone's running around asking to use internet

thecremeegg · 31 Mar 2010 at 14:01

shauncr91 said:
Dunno why but this reminded me of the South Park episode where the internet goes down and everyone's running around asking to use internet

Love that episode

gonda · 31 Mar 2010 at 14:03

Fine here round Bank, not quite sure what I'd do all day at work if the internet died.....

trent · 31 Mar 2010 at 14:05

Fine here. Although i live in tokyo.

territt · 31 Mar 2010 at 14:06

gonda said:
Fine here round Bank, not quite sure what I'd do all day at work if the internet died.....

where abouts in bank you work? im down Old Jewry

Anominity · 31 Mar 2010 at 14:07

Fine here too, down Farringdon way.

CaptainComedy · 31 Mar 2010 at 14:07

our dev servers are on the local network so it really wouldn't bother us tbh

although our live servers are somewhere else but that doesn't matter.

we can't make any outbound calls either - from great portland street/oxford street.

n111ck · 31 Mar 2010 at 14:08

OMG this means that no one can play Assassins Creed 2 or Silent Hunter 5. :eek:

This is like a terror attack x 100.

Adrianr · 31 Mar 2010 at 14:13

n111ck said:
OMG this means that no one can play Assassins Creed 2 or Silent Hunter 5. This is like a terror attack x 100.

Baz · 31 Mar 2010 at 14:14

O2 have been sending me service updates all morning about this, and Scotland/NI....

Wondered what happened.