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Broadband Related => Known Network Issues + MSO's => Topic started by: Jon21 on April 29, 2020, 01:22:13 AM

Title: West Midlands fibre cable(s) cut/break
Post by: Jon21 on April 29, 2020, 01:22:13 AM

Not sure if this is the right section for this but there seems to of been a fibre cable(s) cut/broken, that’s affecting the West Midlands area. Both Sky and Virgin have outages relating to it. I’ve noticed that my connection with Zen is showing a couple of increases in latency, starting around 1:15pm ish. I assumed it was just a routing change but might be indirectly related?

(https://www.thinkbroadband.com/broadband/monitoring/quality/share/thumb/4fc18c2951b3708a4f7d6c26b6e3acf4fb631fe9-29-04-2020.png) (https://www.thinkbroadband.com/broadband/monitoring/quality/share/4fc18c2951b3708a4f7d6c26b6e3acf4fb631fe9-29-04-2020)

Title: Re: West Midlands fibre cable(s) cut/break
Post by: niemand on April 29, 2020, 05:18:14 PM

Sky and TalkTalk Business both use Virgin Media fibre, Zen use TalkTalk Business. Likely all the same incident.

Title: Re: West Midlands fibre cable(s) cut/break
Post by: Jon21 on April 29, 2020, 08:00:21 PM

Quote from: CarlT on April 29, 2020, 05:18:14 PM

Sky and TalkTalk Business both use Virgin Media fibre, Zen use TalkTalk Business. Likely all the same incident.

Thanks Carl. Was due to a cut Virgin Media fibre according to the local paper.

https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2020/04/29/shropshire-internet-outage-ends-after-virgin-cable-repairs/