"Purbeckview" wrote in message
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jbm wrote:
There are major issues with telephone and broadband services in the
UK, and Usenet posts are not getting through to some news servers.
There has been a major fire in Paddington, London, affecting over
400 telephone exchanges around the country, causing problems to
telephone, mobile and broadband services over the whole country.
The worst affected ISP's are TalkTalk, Tiscali, and Vodafone
mobiles.

The Beeb is also reporting this but suggest the problem is limited
more to the London area. Can't say I've noticed much difference here
in Dorset but then we don't get a particularly fast and reliable BB
service where I am from Talktalk (my current ISP) or previous ones
(BT, Tiscali, Freeserve)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8597399.stm


.... no changes in any aspect of above noted here - service acceptable.
In fact the broadband throughput is if anything slightly faster than I
would expect.

Martin.


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