Hi Paul, I'm in The Oaks, Milton. Quite possibly on the same subnet as you. I have a Linux box permanently connected via NTL and haven't seen any problems recently. I have a cron job run every 5 mins and ping various reliable hosts (Google etc.) so I usually know if something's up. Last logged failure was 13-Jun-05. The other day my ssh connection (from work to home) died, but the outage was very short and I suspected it *not* to be NTL. Feel free to connect to my box by http to check Milton-NTL connectivity if you need to. Ping/traceroute may or may not work, but easy to add your IP(s) if it would help. Don't probe other than port 80 or you could be barred. http:/www.boudet.homelinux.net/ Currently, 81.104.202.233, and has been ever since installation last year. Cheers, -bernie. On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 09:21:46 +0100 you wrote: > Our broadband connection, after a couple of years of being very > reliable, has been decidedly flaky over the last couple of weeks. > Typical symptoms are that we wake up to find it's failed in the wee > small hours of the morning (our server here does various jobs overnight > so we know roughly when it goes off) or disappearing for shorter periods > during the day. > > Are we alone in being affected by this or are other people seeing down > time? I know we're odd in that we are connected all the time and have > traffic of some sort going on at odd times pretty much 24x7 so we may be > more aware of it than some of you but I was wondering if it's just us > being affected or is it a more widespread problem around the village. I > suspect the latter from the few conversations I've had with other NTL users. > > With this in mind can I ask anyone with an NTL broadband connection to > complete a little survey form? You can find it here: > > www.milton.org.uk/ntlsurvey.html > > I'll publish the results here later. > -- > Paul