OK who broke vodafone?

My fibre connection is back online again now, but dog slow. Supposed to be ~1Gb but barely hitting 25Mb. How did we ever survive on dial up?
 
Absolute nightmare for us. We use a call centre to call clients to see if they need a pathology collection tonight. A massive group of these clients use Vodafone VOIP. and guess what, We cant get through to over half of them..

Then I've got a dozen or so drivers on the Vodafone network that cant receive their jobs tonight... Having to call them and do it manually. a job that should take 5 seconds is going to take hours. With a big knock on effect as we cant extend the night to compensate for the delayed start!!
 
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Our home broadband and mobiles are all Vodafone so we got totally blocked out, could've done without missing two hours working time really.

I'll be thinking about becoming less reliable on one provider in the future.
 
ChrisD. said:
It was BGP, they did a Meta. :cry:
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Did they? DownDetector is currently showing outage spikes in the exact same pattern at the same time for:
  • Vodafone
  • BT
  • EE
  • Lebara
  • Voxi
  • Three
  • TalkMobile
  • Smarty
  • O2
  • Sky
  • TalkTalk
  • Asda
  • Sky
  • CitiFibre
  • Discord
  • EA
  • PlusNet
  • Origin
  • GiffGaff
  • YouTube
  • Tesco
  • IDMobile
  • Minecraft
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Utility Warehouse
  • Google
Now granted, some of that will be people on Voda with no Internet pressing 'all the things' they can't access through some unrelated working cellular connection. It's a very broad spread across MNOs and MVNOs (the latter understandable, with a Voda backend) plus major services, though... It did smell like a cyber attack to me. BT/EE and others being involved at the same time in the same pattern smells fishy. But I know nowt. :D
 
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I am on Labara which piggy off them. I was trying to access the ncp car park to get out of the place where it wanted QR codes scanned etc. you even needed the app to get into the building! :cry: On the drive home realised it was the network that was down.
 
We've been mostly with the cheapest ADSL provider for ages. Recently that has been vodafone - probably the biggest ISP we've been on for years.

Very impressed that vodafone had is set up so that an outage knocked out their ADSL, FTTP, mobiles (both 4G and 5G), and their status webpage!

Luckily:
Crizzy said:
I'll be thinking about becoming less reliable on one provider in the future.
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mobile is with a different network.
 
Downdetector is from what I understand based purely on social media mentions and people clicking to say they have an issue, and lots of people don't know what ISP they are with so you'll get spurious reports. It's not a great source of information on things like that but can be part of a toolkit if you understand the limitations. FWIW I am on EE for mobile and fibre and had no issues.
 
Caged said:
Downdetector is from what I understand based purely on social media mentions and people clicking to say they have an issue, and lots of people don't know what ISP they are with so you'll get spurious reports. It's not a great source of information on things like that but can be part of a toolkit if you understand the limitations. FWIW I am on EE for mobile and fibre and had no issues.
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Quite, and I did allude to that in my post. It was an interesting pattern nonetheless, and tbh if it was a major cyber attack likely we'd never be told anyway. On EE and YouFibre here and zero issues also. My kids all have Voxi SIMs but they're on WiFi today and I didn't bother to test connectivity over 5G.
 
Old C&W had a lot of links into a lot of places. That'd explain the wide spread of affected companies.

Edit for clarity - Vodafone bought up Cable & Wireless's UK arm years ago.
 
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There was a spike at the same time for TalkTalk which is presumably people not realising that Talkmobile is a Vodafone MVNO and not a TalkTalk brand.
 
ChrisD. said:
The great unwashed will report anything as broken on there so not exactly the most credible of places.

Vodafone stopped advertising 2m of their 2.6m /24 networks to the internet when things started to break.
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Indeed, I saw that after I posted (I followed the DD link from elsewhere first). They dropped ~2M IPv4 nets but interestinglyl IPv6 seemed unaffected. I can't wait to read the post incident analysis but I'm very glad I'm not anywhere near their network atm. Long day/night for some of those poor guys 'n' gals. :o

Edit: Cloudflare radar posted some commentary on their BlueSky (their link not mine!).
 
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Well, mine went down from 2:59pm until around 5:30. As my mobile and broadband are with Vodafone, that meant no work this afternoon.

Am a bit busy at work, but won't say no to enforced downtime!
 
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