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London internet connections have stopped working again (www.independent.co.uk)

submitted 21 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Community Fibre, the London-based internet provider, has been hit by its second outage in a week.

Customers complained they were unable to get online amid a major outage on Friday afternoon.

“Some customers may be experiencing disruption to their service. Our engineers are aware of this issue and working on a solution as their top priority. We apologise for any inconvenience caused and appreciate your patience,” the company said on an update to its status page.

“Please ensure that all equipment is left on with all cables plugged in enable us to restore service as soon as possible.”

It follows another outage on Monday, during which users similarly said their internet connections had stopped working all of a sudden. Then, some found that they were able to get around the issues by changing their DNS settings.

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[–] KazuyaDarklight 16 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

ISP DNS is for suckers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

What do you suggest instead? Cloudfare? Google? DNS is all far too centralised these days.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

DNS being centralised is kind of inevitable.

People dislike Cloudflare because it has reached a scale that's concerning but as far as I'm aware they've never abused their dominance.

Quad9 is often recommended as an alternative to the large players

[–] [email protected] 4 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Well, after all, the internet is a series of tubes, but due to an unfortunate language induced misunderstanding, all of the IP packets are now at Earl's Court station with nowhere to go.

[–] tensor_nightly69 1 points 15 hours ago

Upside, that'll delay the ability to spy on unencrypted data.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago

They are putting new backdoors in place, have some parience.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

This affected me at at inconvenient time. I don't really have a good choice when it comes to fibre internet though so I can't necessarily see any options other then to accept it and move on.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 17 hours ago

You could just update your DNS settings to use CloudFlare or Google (or any other provider). If you set it up in your router, it'll use them for all your devices.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 20 hours ago

This affected me at at inconvenient time.

Vinegar strokes?