Fire at BT's North Paddington Exchange

ruffneck · 31 Mar 2010 at 13:42

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

Is this affecting anyone here? we're having issues with on-line transactions because of this.

bigredshark · 31 Mar 2010 at 13:50

I'm aware of it, I'm currently slightly unclear if the large scale datastream outage also ongoing (38k lines or so) is directly related but either way that's the bigger issue right now...

GeX · 31 Mar 2010 at 14:21

Description of Outage:

Several BBLCs terminating to Reading and Harbour Exchange are down.

All datastream customers terminating on rdg-0-dsl, he-1-dsl, and he-2-dsl, are affected by this outage.

** 12:17 : 437 exchanges have been confirmed as affected by this outage, Customer Services have received a document detailing affected exchanges.

** 12:30 : BT have taken the decision to close North Paddington Exchange due to flooding , LLU services provided by Tiscali at this exchange only are experiencing the same issues as above.

***Update 13:45***

A full list of the affected exchanges can be found here - http://bit.ly/bedra6

http://www.gradwellstatus.com/index.php

Taziir · 31 Mar 2010 at 14:38

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

Causing us a world of pain atm...

iamtheoneneo · 31 Mar 2010 at 14:45

affecting oxford a fair bit too

Westyfield2 · 31 Mar 2010 at 14:49

Can't say we've noticed anything...

bigredshark · 31 Mar 2010 at 14:58

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

Causing us a world of pain atm...

If you learn something about resiliency from it so much the better...

Taziir · 31 Mar 2010 at 15:54

bigredshark said:
If you learn something about resiliency from it so much the better...

Tell me about it, we've dusted off several dedicated non-bt connections but have a tonne of traffic still timing out :rolleyes:

Azuse05 · 31 Mar 2010 at 15:59

/me hugs Be line

bigredshark · 31 Mar 2010 at 16:04

Azuse05 said:
/me hugs Be line

If you were on the same exchange it wouldn't help you, and arguably their network is even less resilient than BT's last time I looked, it's built to a price it's fair to say.

memyselfandi · 31 Mar 2010 at 17:52

Was affecting me for some of today; currently doing a VMware course and it knocked out the ISP link the training provider use for their internet ... unfortunately we were connecting to their labs over it.

Fortunately they got us connected via another route this afternoon.

Locky · 31 Mar 2010 at 22:08

usualy when there is a sniff of an upset on BE/o2 network I'm nearly always affected.

matthab · 31 Mar 2010 at 23:33

Theyve rerouted all the traffic with redundant links so all you will probs notice is a slight slow down.

CAPTAINBUMFLUFF · 1 Apr 2010 at 00:53

I live right near it and am on paddington exchange, hopefully instead of installing a old crappy copper box and then replacing it in a year with a fibre optic one, they will do this straight away.
Bt infinity

Only on internet as connecting to someone over wifi

ruffneck · 1 Apr 2010 at 07:17

***Update 20:25***
We have had an update from BT. They are saying that it may take up to 4 days to resolve the fault. They will be able to give a more definite time frame to fix once they are allowed inside the site by the fire department.

mast3r · 1 Apr 2010 at 07:36

Oh Dear!
you guys back in the stone age?
Or 3G cardage?

J.B · 1 Apr 2010 at 08:28

Looking at the list of exchanges affected, there's a lot on there, but I notice High Wycombe isnt but all the surrounding area is. Im wondering if we have so additonal redundancy due to the massive RAF base.

squ1bby · 1 Apr 2010 at 10:19

It has affected our SDSL connection, and we are in Eastleigh! Normal ADSL is fine though so I have spent the morning re-routing everyone. Fun!

Sp00n · 1 Apr 2010 at 10:29

Where abouts in eastleigh are you squib? I'm from Valley Park myself

squ1bby · 1 Apr 2010 at 11:00

Chandlers Ford, just round the corner!