If anyone is having issues with their DSL or major ethernets....
Some drunken fool has drilled through the tunnel under the olympic park near Ilford...
http://adsl24status.co.uk/?p=211
QuoteWe have just received the following update on the fault from BT.
Serious Incident Briefing: cable damage incident in East London
This briefing on a cable damage incident in East London is for all Communications Providers.
Openreach can confirm that, following significant damage, by a third party, to cables in a deep underground tunnel on the afternoon of Saturday 4th April, a large number of end users in parts of East London are currently experiencing a loss of service.
A third party contractor has caused significant damage to one of our deep underground tunnels resulting in the loss of service to a large number of end users in parts of East London.
Due to the nature of the damage, which happened 32 meters below street level, and the restricted access to the site, it is not possible at this stage to provide an exact timeframe as to when service will be restored to all customers.
Because of the severity of the damage, the tunnel is completely blocked and to restore the cables they will need to be brought up to the surface either side of the tunnel and then routed over land through existing and new duct. The new duct is being built today as we gain permission to close roads and do the necessary work.
As a consequence of this large scale operation it may be some days before we see all services fully restored.
Openreach engineers are working extremely hard to resolve this situation and we have already successfully restored service to a number or affected end users in the early hours of Sunday morning using alternative methods of connection.
Getting worse. This is a stinker. If you work in or around London and have customers that cross BT's bearers, you may have issues....
Armi lost his interwebs earlier today, perhaps they're in the same hole.
Here's a picture of the incident.
You are looking down a BT deep-level cable ductway which is 32 metres below ground. It is big enough to stand upright in.
The yellow object at the far end is part of a tunnel borer operating on behalf of Thames Water that has managed to hit the ductway dead centre at a 90 degree angle. It ripped through the majority of the fibre cables in the ductway before being stopped by the operator. It has no reverse :doh:
:roflmao:
I've hit the odd cable or pipe, but nothing on that scale:blink:
Actually it is 10 mtrs underground, about 34 feet. Someone seems to have got their metric/imperial mixed up. :D
Still not all fixed yet. Bet someone's getting a ball-ocking. :roflmao:
Quote from: Sn00ks;272061Actually it is 10 mtrs underground, about 34 feet. Someone seems to have got their metric/imperial mixed up. :D
Still not all fixed yet. Bet someone's getting a ball-ocking. :roflmao:
Us old folks can't cope with new fangled metricals :sad:
Quote from: Sn00ks;272061Actually it is 10 mtrs underground, about 34 feet. Someone seems to have got their metric/imperial mixed up. :D
Still not all fixed yet. Bet someone's getting a ball-ocking. :roflmao:
There's only one ISP report that has said 32 feet. Every report I've had, including BT has been 32 meters, which does sound very deep. TO put that in perspective it's the same depth as about 300 pigeons stood on each others heads.
...I'm off to trap 300 pigeons to find out what that looks like. Anyone got a large net I can use?
TL.
Quote from: TeaLeaf;272091...I'm off to trap 300 pigeons to find out what that looks like. Anyone got a large net I can use?
TL.
Well....you can't use the inter-NET as it was broken by these shenanigans. Sorry
You only need to trap two of them. get one to stand on the others head, then you can have the underneath one fly to the top of the combined height. Repeat x149.
Hope this helps.
ok, I started it, sorry. To get this back on topic, anyone have any idea what they were drilling for if it was that deep?