BT broadband outages. Can infrastructure cope with lockdowns home schooling and WFH.

[MercyBooth]

Been having dropouts constantly since last night. So have many others from what ive seen on Twitter and Down Detector. Anyone else on here having problems?

Ours has been like this since March!

Ours was like it last March too. We had an engineer out last May who replaced some wiring and worked on the phone point because they found a fault in here but he spent even longer at the bit outside the flat.

BT says line fault and needs openreach And that they may not have to come to the address. Does anyone on here think this is likely? BT had to come inside the flat last May and did a rewire so shouldnt need to come in again surely. That was during the first lockdown and i am now in a support bubble with my mum

I had that and it was a wire connection in the street. They resolved it pretty quickly.

Ta Haggis. Got an e mail today saying it should now be working but am still having dropouts. They are saying after work on the network it can take 24 hours to stabilise again.

I have not but am in London, not rural parts of the country.

We're in a rural area and have been having similar issues. Like Haggis it's all down to connections in the street, they came and sorted it out reasonably quickly without coming into the house. It improved for a few months then went wonky again a few days ago, they're due to come out tomorrow.

Here we go again Six dropouts in 3 minutes. Website is showing a problem in our area.

Six dropouts in 35 mins sorry

Yes, every night around 9pm.

It's been crap since March though.

We had this loads before Christmas and overall speed dropped right down, does seem ok now the majority of the time.

Ours has been ok but the education site for wales crashed on day 1 due to so many accessing it but was fine yesterday