Internet down in Ireland

[Trevortcb]

Any updates on the internet being down the last 24 hours in Ireland 

 i cant get anyone on Twitter to give me any info 

I phoned yesterday and they did it would be fixed 

Trev 

[Daniel0210]

@Trevortcb 
You’re talking to fellow customers here not Sky Ireland Customer Services. 

[Trevortcb]

I know I am 

I just wondered was there anyone else here in a similar situation in Ireland and if they had been told anything 

[TimmyBGood]

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@Trevortcb wrote:

Any updates on the internet being down the last 24 hours in Ireland 

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I think if Ireland had dropped off the internet, the world would have noticed.

Any individual address can suffer an outage: thousand do nationally every day.

[Trevortcb]

Well it's an engineer visit 

5 working days 

They thought that had fixed the outage in the area but me ringing told them they hadn't 

I'm seeing a lot of sky broadband complaints on Twitter lately 

[Chrisee]

@Trevortcb you will find loads of people moaning about all isps as the winter weather causes line issues it happens every year. Sky are one of the largest ISP hence more moans. Copper phone lines carrying high frequency electrical signals don't mix well  with very heavy rain and high winds.

[TimmyBGood]

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@Trevortcb wrote:

I'm seeing a lot of sky broadband complaints on Twitter lately 

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I've noted elsewhere that when you supply six million households with a service a 99.99% success rate is still 600 unhappy ones logging new faults every day.

As @Chrisee indicates, legacy copper 'phone' cabling is rather less than 'four-nines' reliable (52 minutes of down-time a year).