James Bennett

🇬🇧 | professional internet service provider complainer

[James Bennett @_JamesBennett]

@virginmedia have you considered turning your big fancy expensive routers off, then on again?
Maybe you're running Linux? Perhaps do a quick "sudo rm -rf /". It wouldn't make much difference to the current level of service.

[James Bennett @_JamesBennett]

Broadband connection is too important these days to lose. It's the sort of thing that needs to have redundancy enforced.

[James Bennett @_JamesBennett]

@AmazonHelp Thanks for the thought, friendly customer service auto reply, but this is more of a foundational issue with your products' design.

[James Bennett @_JamesBennett]

Unable to turn off the lights in my house because the internet is down.

That would have been a good joke 10 years ago.

Thanks so much Virgin Media and Amazon.

[James Bennett @_JamesBennett]

I yet again return to Twitter for the sole purpose of complaining about Virgin Media's broadband going down.

Is this going to become a regular event now? Would appreciate a schedule.

[Cloudflare Radar @CloudflareRadar]

@SerinaGH1 @virginmedia The authoritative nameservers for https://t.co/njRW8HsqbC are also hosted on AS5089. Because that network is unavailable, their nameservers and thus their web site are unavailable as well.

[Cloudflare Radar @CloudflareRadar]

Tracking a complete #Internet outage at @virginmedia (AS5089) in the #UnitedKingdom.

Traffic begin to drop at 00:30 UTC.

Multiple reports of connectivity issues on Twitter and https://t.co/gRtP9y8flS

Virgin Media DNS also unavailable.

https://t.co/2GGyBYh4cl

[James Bennett @_JamesBennett]

Interestingly, whatever networking black magic google has summoned from the depths of hell seems to allow YouTube (and other Google services) to keep working on Virgin Media.

Any ideas how that works?

[James Bennett @_JamesBennett]

Looking through both downdetector and Twitter (a highly scientific analysis I know) it's looking like it's just Virgin Media.
BT and Sky reports are in the hundreds. Virgin's are in the tens of thousands.

Still no reply from cloudflare DNS. Google is giving some patchy responses

[James Bennett @_JamesBennett]

@KnaterOfficial Yeah you're right, you can see the spikes from that, but BT and Sky also have reports.
Could just be people who don't know what broadband company they are with though.

[James Bennett @_JamesBennett]

Downdetector seems to suggest that it isn't just Virgin Media...
DNS problem maybe?

[James Bennett @_JamesBennett]

Complaining about internet issues is probably one of the larger use cases for Twitter these days

[James Bennett @_JamesBennett]

And good luck with cloudflare...

[James Bennett @_JamesBennett]

Patchy connection to Google DNS at the moment.
Who's fault is this?

[BBC East Midlands @bbcemt]

They've done it!!!! Nottingham Forest are back in the Premier League after 23 years! ❤️🙌

The Reds have beaten Huddersfield 1-0 in the Championship play-off final at Wembley. Updates here: https://t.co/Fs9HbA8uY1

[James Bennett @_JamesBennett]

For anyone wanting to fetch to #TeamSeas total for a project, you can fetch the raw #json from the "#api" at:
https://t.co/dLKeCt4fBU
(Seems to update every 30 seconds or so)

[MrBeast @MrBeast]

Two years ago we planted 20,000,000 trees and now we want to remove 30,000,000 pounds of trash from the ocean with #TeamSeas!

$1 = 1 less pound of trash in the ocean!

https://t.co/SbN0Hkynwb

[James Bennett @_JamesBennett]

@elonmusk up for another 1m for #teamseas ?

[NSF - NASASpaceflight.com @NASASpaceflight]

Major Starship Milestone!

Ship 20 and Booster 4 - now an integrated stack. The tallest, most powerful, rocket humanity has ever built.

https://t.co/IPS42x5jYJ

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Starship landing nominal!