HELP - Internet Tonight

[wideboy]

The post below about Yahoo Web Site applies to lots of other websites. Could someone who Is NOT on V21 as ISP PLEASE reply to say that they are NOT having problems. Anyone else that wants to chip in, pleae do!! We can access some sites but a lot we can't; and my email is unavailable.

[shaneystar2]

Hi wideboy ...rushes over from Q&P...I have had trouble with my computer all day. No Google,Wiki ,BBC ,Acuweather is up the creek too..pages won't load. Keep getting timed out and "web page not available ". Then Google comes up but won't search .I am a bit of dunce regarding ISP etc ..but my email is O.K ..NTL world. Also pages keep jumping about .
Seems we are all in some sort of same boat. AB is OK though !!

[wideboy]

Thanks In A Pickle (unfortunate name tonight!!).

Shaneystar2 - doesn't seem to be the weather up here in Scotland. BBC is ok with me except the searching. I did get this earlier when searching BBC:-

Service not available.
Unfortunately a server error occured whilst trying to retrieve this page:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/check/nolav console/ukfs_news/hi?redirect=fs.stm&nbram =1&bbram=1&nbwm=1&bbwm=1&news= 1 />We are currently working to correct this

Going to bed - hope it's sorted in the morning.

[maximo]

Google is working now, but still some other sites are down ( yahoo, radiotimes...). My pages keep jumping around too, Shaneystar! I'm so relieved, I really thought my laptop was going bonkers ! It's very strange though...it seems to affect a number of different providers( I'm on Virgin ).

[PhilBy]

I'm a NTL 10MB Broadband user and I am finding an awful lot of the www has gone misssing........ including ebay! I don't know what is happening but it feels pretty heavy and I presume there must be a lot of people working very hard to resolve this!

My business is 100% reliant on the net and tonights problems will certainly cost me money, if this is a global problem I shudder to think how much it is costing on whole .............. fingers crossed it is resolved sooner than later.

[PhilBy]

Hah, should of read the replies.... Would NTL be V21 .... What ever that may be :-)

[shaneystar2]

I've spent a lot of time in Q&P tonight and lots of my fellow puzzlers have had trouble tonight with getting into Google for their answers..let's hope it resolves itself soon ..Goodnight all .

[PhilBy]

Happy to report all is well again! Right, I'm off to do some business :-)

[wideboy]

Philby, unfortunately it is still bad this morning. I depend on my email for my job. Maybe its just a matter of each ISP getting back to normal one at a time. Now, if only I could find the phone number for V21........

[wideboy]

Miraculously back to normal just 5 minutes ago. Bliss!

[Blyss]

V21 fdone number wideboy
0906 304 0900

Im just off out for a wee while , if im still the same when i come back Ill be callin them.

[wideboy]

Thanks, Blyss, it's 50p a minute. Hopefully it's sorted for you as well.

[Blyss]

yups WB thats me sorted ...thank the gods !!

I still have no idea what happned thou.

[wideboy]

Blyss - this from V21 (maybe others use the sam external servers?):-

This morning a problem was identified with the ability of customers to browse on ADSL; this issue only affects customers who are attempting to connect anew from yesterday evening, users already online will be unaffected.

This problem has been identfied with the network external to our own. As users connect, they should be assigned details unique to their connection (such as IP address, gateway addresses and DNS server addresses) from ourselves; however currently the DNS servers being assigned to ADSL users are not our own but those of a third party.

A work around is being put into place currently by BT which should allow all customers reconnecting after 10am to browse correctly - this problem will be fully resolved later today.

We apologise for any inconvenience this problem may have caused.