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Sure there’s a lesson to be learnt here? Update your electrical equipment regularly? Possibly, but perhaps BT and Openreach should better shield their infrastructure against electrical interference! A pensioner turning on his old television each morning left 400 villagers with poor broadband for 18 months. Openreach engineers made repeated visits…

Can rain and Wifi signal? Yes, there’s some evidence to suggest rain can effect WiFi — especially if your Router/WiFi is setup to use the 2.4-GHz frequency (most modern routers offer 2.4 and 5 GHz options).

Now Faster (Fibre to the Cabinet) Broadband is available to more and more users in the Isle of Purbeck, we though we’d run a little poll to see if you have upgraded yet.

The old fluctuating and very slow broadband problems appear to have returned to users in Corfe Castle, Church Knowle, Kimmeridge and parts of Langton. It looks like anybody who broadband connects to the Corfe Castle exchange. We have reports of very slow speeds from TalkTalk, BT and Utility Warehouse (which…

There appears to be a number of issues this morning across the Isle of Purbeck. BT and other Internet suppliers appear to be aware of the problems. We suspect the issues are due to the very large amount of rain we have had overnight. If you have no internet, first…

BT have confirmed there is/was a problem with broadband that has affected the 01929 dialling code. The problem should be resolved by 6.25. If you are still having problems, try restarting (power off/on) your modem/router. Broadband Problem in the Reading and Surrounding areas Date & Time: Thu 03/01/2013 at 04:48Estimated…

16/12/2012 22:53 BT report loss of service for some 01929 and 01305 broadband users, estimated fix is 2 hours #CorfeCastle #broadband 17/12/2012 00:53 Fixed If you still have problems or no broadband, try restarting your modem or router.

There is another MSO (Major Service Outage) affecting broadband users who connect to the Worth Matravers and Corfe Castle exchange(s). It sounds like there is another hardware fault, possible similar to the fault last month on the 9th July Degraded Broadband Service. Update: This is starting to be a joke,…

There is planned engineering work scheduled for the 17th July 2012. In theory it will not affect users, but if you discover you have no internet access after the work, first restart (turn off/on or unplug) your Router. Contact your ISP if you continue to have problems. Start:17/07/2012 00:01Cleared:17/07/2012 06:00Duration:5…