Network Rail breaks the internet in West Drayton and Uxbridge

Surrey 455

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Network Rail breaks the internet in West Drayton and Uxbridge

« on: October 21, 2016, 07:19:57 »

Network rail has accepted that its contractors have damaged phone and broadband cables in West Drayton and Uxbridge....

http://www.getwestlondon.co.uk/news/west-london-news/uxbridge-west-drayton-wifi-not-12054557


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TaplowGreen

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Re: Network Rail breaks the internet in West Drayton and Uxbridge

« Reply #1 on: October 21, 2016, 07:38:58 »

Makes a change from damaging signal cables I guess?


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broadgage

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Re: Network Rail breaks the internet in West Drayton and Uxbridge

« Reply #2 on: October 21, 2016, 09:38:13 »

Quote from: TaplowGreen on October 21, 2016, 07:38:58

Makes a change from damaging signal cables I guess?

Just keeping in practice.


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Surrey 455

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Re: Network Rail breaks the internet in West Drayton and Uxbridge

« Reply #3 on: October 21, 2016, 23:11:04 »

Update :

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Furious residents have been told there is "no timescale" for when the internet will be fixed after Network Rail cut a cable which led to an outage in Uxbridge and West Drayton.

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BT and Sky engineers are working with Network Rail and Hillingdon Council to carry out repair works to get WiFi up and running as soon as they can.

I'm guessing that Hillingdon are providing some sort of support rather than IT expertise here.
Is this really anything to do with Sky? I thought they just used BT lines to provide their broadband.

http://www.getwestlondon.co.uk/news/west-london-news/uxbridge-west-drayton-internet-outage-12059776#rlabs=2%20rt


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