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The entire village is offline

spiderwheels
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Registered: ‎08-10-2011

The entire village is offline

Everyone on fibre (bt infinity, PN etc) is offline. Why doesn't this not appear on the PN status page?
Does anyone know where this information is tracked?
I have a ticket open with PN but I get the impression PN think it's isolated to my connection even though my wifes office, my neighbour and the man at the post office are all offline.
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jelv
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Re: The entire village is offline

http://usertools.plus.net/exchanges/
There's a link to service outages on the results page.
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spiderwheels
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Re: The entire village is offline

Thanks for the link but it doesn't show a problem. I'm rather concerned that PN don't seem to know there is a problem with the while village. The lines of communication with BT are very crackly...
spiderwheels
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Re: The entire village is offline

I collared a BT engineer this morning and he told me the Fibre is down across the exchange.. so that's my village, the neighbouring town (where the exchange resides) and a couple of other villages besides.
And still when I look at the plusnet exchange status it shows no faults. Now I don't know if that's PN's fault for not asking BT if there is something wrong in the exchange (as I hope they would when I reported the fault) or BT's fault for not telling PN there is a problem. Is this typical of the cooperation between the two companies?
James
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Re: The entire village is offline

Hi - This basically means that BT haven't issued a formal notification about the outage.
It doesn't mean that there isn't a problem, just that they haven't let us know yet.
spiderwheels
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Re: The entire village is offline

Fair enough James... but does that mean your faults team have done / are doing unnecessary work when we just need to wait for BT to fix the exchange?
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orbrey
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Re: The entire village is offline

I suspect reporting issues individually is a useful thing to do in these situations as (afaik) they'll work on number of related reports coming in from a given area.
James
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Re: The entire village is offline

Quote from: spiderwheels
Fair enough James... but does that mean your faults team have done / are doing unnecessary work when we just need to wait for BT to fix the exchange?

To an extent!
They would raise faults on an individual issue until the exchange had been flagged as having an issue.
What will often happen though is that we notice an increase in volumes on faults from a certain area code, we'll then contact BTs "Proactive" Team to see if there's a known issue.