Disruption

With a Bank Holiday weekend ahead, you can forecast a degree of disruption on the roads and on the rails. What the Gorse Fox did not expect, however, was dead broadband. He came down, had breakfast and fired up the West Sussex data centre – only to find that it had no connections to the outside world.

He reset the router. It didn’t work.

He restarted the computer. It didn’t work.

He fired up the 3G modem. It couldn’t get a signal.

He fired up the iPad (with a different 3G service) and got just enough of a service to look up the BT phone number.

Eventually, after more restarts, and more reboots the service stuttered back into life. It spent the rest of the morning failing and reconnecting, but finally seems stable now.