SKy Broadband at home are sufficiently reliable most of the time but when the connection drops, then you know it’s just bad juju on their end. Last night the connection dropped while I was out (in fact it usually drops while I’m out) and it came back some time in the wee small hours.
I correct myself: the connection was up, as multiple reboots of the router confirmed and came up at 6300 kbps down, 384 kbps up which is pretty respectable. But the level 3 connection didn’t come up, no IP address was received from their ADSL servers so there was no traffic coming or going. I used a handy password utility on teh internets on my iPhone which takes your serial number and MAC address and provides you with the password for Sky’s broadband network, information they will flat our refuse to give you otherwise. I configured a spare Vigor router and tested. Same again. I went to bed frustrated and not a little pissed off with Sky.
6:30 am this morning everything is working.
I can’t help but think this is demand related. They hit a demand saturation point, run out of IP addresses and just start kicking people off. Very poor.