BT down?

Ludo

Cant connect to BT broadband at the moment in the Bray area. Is anyone else having this problem?

parsi

Ludo wrote:

Cant connect to BT broadband at the moment in the Bray area. Is anyone else having this problem?

BTs DNS servers are borked it would seem - I reconfigured using eircom and OpenDNS :

213.94.190.194
213.94.190.236
208.67.222.222

Still slow enough as well..

quarryman

I can connect thru work (via tunnel [like i am now]) but not directly.

Wasn't sure that was possible, maybe a browser issue?

(Limerick area)

KoolKid

Was having probs... Reset ASDL line from modem & it seems fine now

degsie

Yep, DNS down here too.... Lucan area.

Using my 3G card instead!

Crucifix

It's being giving me trouble for a few days now. Reseting the router generally fixes it.

parsi

quarryman wrote:

I can connect thru work (via tunnel [like i am now]) but not directly.

Wasn't sure that was possible, maybe a browser issue?

(Limerick area)

Well... nslookups using BT assigned servers failed for me. I could connect to websites using their ip address (could only remember one! ). A change to OpenDNS servers allowed nslookups to work. So unlikely to be a browser issue.

quarryman

parsi wrote:

Well... nslookups using BT assigned servers failed for me. I could connect to websites using their ip address (could only remember one! ). A change to OpenDNS servers allowed nslookups to work. So unlikely to be a browser issue.

any idea how i do that? had look in the modem options but nothing about 'OpenDNS' etc.

kaizersoze

Aye parsi, the DNS servers well and truely borked. All BT customers that I know of in Galway county were down aswell. Disconnect from the mains for 10-15 seconds and reconnect is the handiest way to get it back up again.

nesf

quarryman wrote:

any idea how i do that? had look in the modem options but nothing about 'OpenDNS' etc.

www.opendns.com

The site has instructions about how to do it.

Plasmoid

BT are in for a real **** storm tomorrow as more and more dns caches start expiring.

Open DNS is your friend, always good practice to have a few spare DNS servers in your list.

Fortunitly for me i had a friend i could talk to on vent, otherwise i would be failing my project due for tomorrow. Way to go BT!

quarryman

nesf wrote:

www.opendns.com

The site has instructions about how to do it.

legend, that worked nicely.

dak

Resorted back to dial up tonight - BT driving me mad . Its like a kid turning the lights on and off annoyingly.- and you pay for it!!

therecklessone

nesf wrote:

www.opendns.com

The site has instructions about how to do it.

You are a complete and utter gentleman.

Thought I was stuck with dial up until tomorrow...:(

loup

Up and down here for the last few days in Dublin 24. Had a fair idea it was the DNS as was able to find sites via IP but not name. What happened the DNS servers in BT does anyone know? Thanks for the Open DNS link above nesf..nice one!

Ludo

Great stuff...OpenDNS set up and back on track. BT has been ****e for a few weeks now...hopefully this will sort the issues.

surveys

nesf wrote:

www.opendns.com

The site has instructions about how to do it.

I had a look at their site. Is there any advantage to changing to their DNS ? I mean permanently. ?

dak

therecklessone wrote:

You are a complete and utter gentleman.

Thought I was stuck with dial up until tomorrow...:(

Thanks for the info too!! my connection is back to 856kbps . Forgive my ignorance but could someone explain how this works ? Is the connection still with BT but speeded up by open DNS ? This must be one of the best URL's ever put on Boards!!!

surveys

surveys wrote:

I had a look at their site. Is there any advantage to changing to their DNS ? I mean permanently. ?

I personally would avoid doing that. Their system is nice for stuff like this but has nowhere near the amount of redundancy that DNS has. If their system goes tits up higher up the ladder yer screwed. There is no decentralised heirarchy like DNS.

Ordinary DNS is proven and works, despite Esats cockup. Why reinvent the wheel and line the pockets of the OpenDNS crowd?

dak

dak wrote:

Thanks for the info too!! my connection is back to 856kbps . Forgive my ignorance but could someone explain how this works ? Is the connection still with BT but speeded up by open DNS ? This must be one of the best URL's ever put on Boards!!!

Your internet connection was in most ways fine. What is wrong is the DNS servers that esat provide are borked. Which means when you type in google.com your computer can't get an ip address for it.

Speed should be no different with or without Open DNS.

Moanin

Was down for me in Navan also.In saying that this is the first time in 3 months that it has crashed on me

houseinthesun

What a nightmare, this has been happening to me quite a lot recently. I'm fairly new to the whole wireless broadband route, I was thinking it had something to do with my set-up.
What can we do about it, "Always On" my a**e, and there is no point in contacting BT customer service.......doesn't exist.
I'm in the Shannon region.

vibe666

Navan here and my speed has dropped from my nice steady fully utilised 3mbps service to erratic ISDN speeds, whether http'ing, torrenting, youtube'ing, ftp'ing or anything else online.

I've been using opendns (tried them as a backup for my ISP DNS and visa versa, but both the same) for the last few days too, but only cos I'd heard others were having problems, not because I was. The slowdowns have only been since then so I'm not sure what the story is.

The only thing I can think is that BT are throttling me for going over the cap, but it's never happened before (a new years resolution at BT maybe?) so I don't know what to think.

I just tried a bit of a ping to boards and it's not looking too clever either.

Linford

I became a BT customer yesterday, had Irish Broadband (Breeze) for the last year and they had so many problems that I decided I could no longer deal with them. Yesterday my connection to BT was on and off which was very annoying.

Can any long term customers of BT tell me if this is a permanent problem with BT or just a recent issue that will hopefully be resolved soon?

Its kind of ironic that IBB gave me no trouble over the last couple of months...

Ludo

Linford wrote:

I became a BT customer yesterday, had Irish Broadband (Breeze) for the last year and they had so many problems that I decided I could no longer deal with them. Yesterday my connection to BT was on and off which was very annoying.

Can any long term customers of BT tell me if this is a permanent problem with BT or just a recent issue that will hopefully be resolved soon?

Its kind of ironic that IBB gave me no trouble over the last couple of months...

I have had BT for 9 months now and this is the first time the service has been "down". It has been a bit erratic over the last few weeks with ping spikes and connections lost. I was very happy with it until recently. Hopefully it is just a blip and they will resolve the issues.

Linford

Ludo wrote:

I have had BT for 9 months now and this is the first time the service has been "down". It has been a bit erratic over the last few weeks with ping spikes and connections lost. I was very happy with it until recently. Hopefully it is just a blip and they will resolve the issues.

Thanks for that Ludo

Creamy Goodness

last night was the first time in about 1.5 years for me that BT was down for more than an hour.

Talisman

Here are some additional DNS addresses for future reference.

AT&T (US)
204.127.129.1
204.127.160.1

AT&T Business (US)
165.87.13.127
165.87.201.244

Bell Atlantic (US)
151.196.0.38
151.196.0.39

Earthlink (US)
207.217.126.81
207.217.77.82
207.217.120.83

Eircom (IE)
213.94.190.194
213.94.190.236

Exa Networks (UK)
82.219.4.24
82.219.4.25

Internet Solutions (ZA)
168.210.2.2
196.35.164.205

Mindspring (US)
207.69.188.185
207.69.188.186
207.69.188.187

Nildram (UK)
213.208.106.212
213.208.106.213

Nildram (US)
195.112.4.4
195.112.4.7

NTL (UK)
194.168.4.100
194.168.8.100

PSI.net (US)
38.9.211.2
38.9.221.2
38.9.231.2

Smart Telecom (IE)
84.203.254.34
84.203.255.34

Talk-Talk (UK)
62.24.199.13
62.24.199.23

Telewest Business (UK)
193.38.113.3
194.117.157.4

vibe666

i have a setting on my router to allow the use of my ISP DNS as a backup for static entries, and turning this off so I am only using opendns and nothing else has fixed my problems for everything except torrents for some reason.

web pages and ftp are both fine again and running at full tilt, but for some reason my torrents are still all running at dialup speeds despite being well seeded and green lit. bugger.

donnacha

I'm with BT about 10 mths now and last night was my first time being down.

Hopefully its not gonna continue - unlike their billing problems. 5th bill came in December and I was overcharged again!

CuLT

vibe666 wrote:

i have a setting on my router to allow the use of my ISP DNS as a backup for static entries, and turning this off so I am only using opendns and nothing else has fixed my problems for everything except torrents for some reason.

web pages and ftp are both fine again and running at full tilt, but for some reason my torrents are still all running at dialup speeds despite being well seeded and green lit. bugger.

Maybe you should call them up and ask "BUT WHAT ABOUT MEH LINUX ISOs?11"

vibe666

CuLT wrote:

Maybe you should call them up and ask "BUT WHAT ABOUT MEH LINUX ISOs?11"

EXACTLY! I don't know what I'm going to do if I can't install the latest version of my favourite distribution.

seriously tho, anyone using opendns to get around the current DNS issues and still getting crappy torrent speeds?

speed tests are all showing me at full speed for http downloads, ftp is fine.

i've flushed my local dns cache, rebooted router and modem, only using opendns (which shouldn't affect torrents anyway as their IP based) I'm using nice high random ports which are happily open, my torrents are all well seeded and green lit and up until yesterday everything was barrelling along at full speed.

did i miss anything?

EDIT: Just the one thing. somehow Azureus had decided to throttle my downloads to 8k.

i haven't used the throttling feature since i got a router with decent QoS (a good 2-3 windows installations ago) i don't know how it happened, but it coincided with the other problems so I mistook it for a symptom of that. schoolboy error.

my linux distro's are barrelling along now.

sticker

I've had my BT 3meg service go down twice (that I noticed) in th past week. But to be fair it's only be for short periods... Clonee area.

skywalker

Cremo wrote:

last night was the first time in about 1.5 years for me that BT was down for more than an hour.

Ditto. Normally a rock solid service.

sticker

skywalker wrote:

Ditto. Normally a rock solid service.

I agree also... A great service provided in my experience. I'll easily forgive the infrequent speed wooble.

OfflerCrocGod

I have been with BT for 4 years and have had no problems at all with them - we got it and since then I've been using it non-stop; yes their billing sucks but their connection has been brilliant.

nacho libre

vibe666 wrote:

EXACTLY! I don't know what I'm going to do if I can't install the latest version of my favourite distribution.

seriously tho, anyone using opendns to get around the current DNS issues and still getting crappy torrent speeds?

speed tests are all showing me at full speed for http downloads, ftp is fine.

i've flushed my local dns cache, rebooted router and modem, only using opendns (which shouldn't affect torrents anyway as their IP based) I'm using nice high random ports which are happily open, my torrents are all well seeded and green lit and up until yesterday everything was barrelling along at full speed.

did i miss anything?

EDIT: Just the one thing. somehow Azureus had decided to throttle my downloads to 8k.

i haven't used the throttling feature since i got a router with decent QoS (a good 2-3 windows installations ago) i don't know how it happened, but it coincided with the other problems so I mistook it for a symptom of that. schoolboy error.

my linux distro's are barrelling along now.

sorry just saw an explanation about this earlier in the thread.

god's toy

nesf wrote:

www.opendns.com

The site has instructions about how to do it.

Just changed over to them to test (BT-BB was down this morning)
wow it is faster! I'll be holding on to those DNS setting for a while I think



Thanks for the link.

dak

Anyone have problems with connection today ? No DSL light this morning Portmarnock area !

billybob97

I recently switched over to BT Briadband before Christmas. Last week my BB was down for nearly 3 hours in the Kerry area. This morning it was down for about 15 minutes and when I am connected I am getting speeds slower than ISDN!

I rang BT today and they told me that I have been online 24/7 for the past week which is not the case as my pc was switched off over thye weekend.

Has anyone else had these kind of problems?

nesf

god's toy wrote:

Just changed over to them to test (BT-BB was down this morning)
wow it is faster! I'll be holding on to those DNS setting for a while I think



Thanks for the link.

You should, as people have pointed out above and in other threads, only use opendns as a backup DNS service for when BT's goes down. Otherwise I'd stick with BTs once it's back up working again, it is generally reliable.

god's toy

billybob97 wrote:

I recently switched over to BT Briadband before Christmas. Last week my BB was down for nearly 3 hours in the Kerry area. This morning it was down for about 15 minutes and when I am connected I am getting speeds slower than ISDN!

I rang BT today and they told me that I have been online 24/7 for the past week which is not the case as my pc was switched off over thye weekend.

Has anyone else had these kind of problems?

Your PC may have been off but was your router/modem left on? People forget to turn that off. (WIFI bandwidth robbers love it when people do that)

vibe666

god's toy wrote:

Your PC may have been off but was your router/modem left on? People forget to turn that off. (WIFI bandwidth robbers love it when people do that)

assuming someone is dumb enough to leave encryption off of course.

people will tell you that WEP & WPA are insecure and that people can still get on your network, but in truth it's not about being totally secure. in most cases it's more than enough to just be more secure than the least secure connection around you.

as long as you take reasonable precautions anyone messing with wifi networks in your area will most likely go for the soft target.

that said, i lived in the centre of dublin next to a main road with a moderately well protected wireless setup (with logging enabled) and nobody even tried to connect to it, so i thinkthe chances of actually getting your wifi LAN hacked are probably fairly slim, unless of course you live next door to a 2600 member with time to burn.

loup

Still problems this evening with BT! Even after changing DNS servers. Have they an outage somewhere and have cut the bandwidth way back so everyone could load up on the lines that work?? Im sooo frustrated here!! I work online in the evenings and no possibilty of that tonight.

billybob97

loup wrote:

Still problems this evening with BT! Even after changing DNS servers. Have they an outage somewhere and have cut the bandwidth way back so everyone could load up on the lines that work?? Im sooo frustrated here!! I work online in the evenings and no possibilty of that tonight.

I am like Loup I work from home and thought I was doing the right thing by changing to BT but it is actually costing me money. I should have stayed with Eircom I was with them for years and even though their Support is crap at least you did not need it very often.

I am going to try to change back to Eircom even though I am supposed to be locked into a contract with BT for 12 Months. Has anyone else changed back and what hassles did they have with BT?