Planned network maintenance 9th sept 2016
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Planned network maintenance 9th sept 2016
09-09-2016 9:07 AM
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Re: Planned network maintenance 9th sept 2016
09-09-2016 9:19 AM
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I noticed speed issues and gave the VDSL A kick on my router and its fine now. I wanted to talk to the tech guys on live chat about something else, and it said there were 131 people in the queue, so seems the poor guys on the phones and live chats are getting hammered.
Re: Planned network maintenance 9th sept 2016
09-09-2016 9:21 AM
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No surprise they are getting hammered....an issue affecting a significant number of people and there is complete silence...all it needs is a "we acknowledge there's a fault and are looking into it" but, instead, we are left guessing and having to go to other provider sites to try and find answers
Re: Planned network maintenance 9th sept 2016
09-09-2016 9:26 AM
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I've worked in technology for years, this is nothing new...
As usual, the tech guys get battered to save the skins of the overpaid failures: the "project managers" and the "service managers"
Re: Planned network maintenance 9th sept 2016
09-09-2016 9:46 AM
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Tech guy here (not plusnet!) can confirm! haha
Re: Planned network maintenance 9th sept 2016
09-09-2016 9:59 AM
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All the PMs i've had the misfortune of working with, know screw all about IT, and you need to hold their hands constantly to stop them making continual duck ups.....
How they get those jobs is beyond me, half of them are ex army....
Re: Planned network maintenance 9th sept 2016
09-09-2016 10:09 AM
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Same issue here this morning, rebooted modem and router but made no difference. Whilst technically not down, my connection is biblically slow, and unusable.
Re: Planned network maintenance 9th sept 2016
09-09-2016 10:10 AM
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Re: Planned network maintenance 9th sept 2016
09-09-2016 10:14 AM
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Whilst I sympathise fella, its impossible for an underfunded and understaffed IT department to communicate with their users.....
It would make sense, if there was an automated phone system that dialled you and played a message, "your broadband has failed to authenticate for over 12hrs, please contact plusnet support for assistance"...
problem is, people don't want to be spammed with calls, even if (on this occasion) they are actually being useful.
Re: Planned network maintenance 9th sept 2016
09-09-2016 10:17 AM
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Indeed. As someone in an understaffed and underfunded IT role - it's not always easy to give "the truthful answer" - although, if our software was down, which happens more times than I'd like to admit, we do hold our hands up to customers and say "its our fault" - which is what plusnet should of done!
Re: Planned network maintenance 9th sept 2016
09-09-2016 10:18 AM
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It's not like they have a status page they could easily update, or the facility to put a pre-recorded message on the front of the phone system (like they have done previously)
Re: Planned network maintenance 9th sept 2016
09-09-2016 10:20 AM
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I completely agree.....
Like I said though, its down to the management, who are saving face (and a monthly bonus for keeping within their phoney SLAs no doubt) rather than putting whats best for their business and customers first.
I don't know what their network change was, I would imagine it was something along the lines of, updating firmware on their networking hardware, or switching out some of their core backbone links onto new router kit, or new lines....
Either way, internet is slow, so I imagine there are some problems.
Re: Planned network maintenance 9th sept 2016
09-09-2016 10:33 AM
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Internet down here - cannot get a reponse from my default PlusNet gateway 172.16.16.15 so tried another nearby router 195.166.143.129 which seems OK as a short term fix (I'm using it now).
As far as PlusNet support is concerned, I worked for many years in global network support for an international manugacturing company, so I know what it's like.
It is really quite difficult to field hundreds of calls/emails/texts from irate users while you are trying to actually investigate and fix the problem.
Moral: if the Internet is vital to you, you need to have an entirely seperate backup route to it. Don't rely on efficient support.
Re: Planned network maintenance 9th sept 2016
09-09-2016 10:40 AM - edited 09-09-2016 10:41 AM
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i know of atleast 4 more plusnet customers who live down in the midlands who also have message me today to say they have no internet, you guys just have to hope the fix the problems they having.
Re: Planned network maintenance 9th sept 2016
09-09-2016 10:42 AM - edited 09-09-2016 10:44 AM
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I only discovered maintenance was happening when the internet went down in the early hours. I'm sure I normally receive an email in advance. Now, almost eleven hours later, I'm still experiencing problems. Randomly, parts of the internet (particularly British sites like bbc.co.uk and plus.net!) keep becoming unresponsive for a few minutes.
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