locutus
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Post by locutus on Jul 20, 2016 13:06:26 GMT
What exactly is an "internet clearing house"? I haven't come across this term before. Somewhere like Telehouse - www.telehouse.net/london-data-centres (down for me at the moment, ironically...). Basically, a sodding great big very secure building with a hell of a lot of big fat cables feeding a hell of a lot of flashing lights in a hell of a lot of racks, tying everybody's networks together. When they have a problem, things go very south very quickly. Thanks. I have over 15 years in enterprise IT and internet technologies and am very familiar with internet backbone and also with data centres. I have never come across the term "internet clearing house" and thought perhaps it was a new technology that had passed me by.
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locutus
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Post by locutus on Jul 20, 2016 13:07:24 GMT
Seems like, for a lot of people, it is access to BT's DNS server(s) which is the issue, and switching to the Google (spit!) version 8.8.8.8 might get around the problem. The 'Network' is a bit like the UK rail 'network' .. getting from A to B almost invariably results in you going via London. Not the first time BT's DNS servers have gone wrong on a massive scale. That company needs drastic reform.
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adrianc
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Post by adrianc on Jul 20, 2016 14:10:19 GMT
Somewhere like Telehouse - www.telehouse.net/london-data-centres (down for me at the moment, ironically...). Basically, a sodding great big very secure building with a hell of a lot of big fat cables feeding a hell of a lot of flashing lights in a hell of a lot of racks, tying everybody's networks together. When they have a problem, things go very south very quickly. Thanks. I have over 15 years in enterprise IT and internet technologies and am very familiar with internet backbone and also with data centres. I have never come across the term "internet clearing house" and thought perhaps it was a new technology that had passed me by. No, just a bit of "Joe Public'll understand it"... <cough> And I couldn't remember the right term...
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blender
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Post by blender on Jul 21, 2016 8:14:07 GMT
Thanks. I have over 15 years in enterprise IT and internet technologies and am very familiar with internet backbone and also with data centres. I have never come across the term "internet clearing house" and thought perhaps it was a new technology that had passed me by. No, just a bit of "Joe Public'll understand it"... <cough> And I couldn't remember the right term...
Note to self: be very careful on this forum when using technospeak about problems with the interweb.
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locutus
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Post by locutus on Jul 21, 2016 8:41:26 GMT
No, just a bit of "Joe Public'll understand it"... <cough> And I couldn't remember the right term...
Note to self: be very careful on this forum when using technospeak about problems with the interweb. I came across an interesting word just this week: ultracrepidarian. Some people have an ability to speak with great authority about topics which they know nothing about and on a forum where everyone's background is unknown, it is important to remember that not everyone who offers an opinion is worth listening to.
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Post by GSV3MIaC on Jul 21, 2016 14:19:07 GMT
I came across an interesting word just this week: ultracrepidarian. Some people have an ability to speak with great authority about topics which they know nothing about But we already have the word 'politician' for that, don't we? 8>.
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ptr120
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Post by ptr120 on Jul 22, 2016 6:22:59 GMT
504 Gateway Time-out error this morning for me. Does anyone else have this problem?
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dawn
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Post by dawn on Jul 22, 2016 6:37:26 GMT
504 Gateway Time-out error this morning for me. Does anyone else have this problem? I'm getting 502 Bad Gateway errors,but I've been getting them a lot over the last couple of days.
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mightyoak
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Post by mightyoak on Jul 22, 2016 7:21:26 GMT
No errors but simply will not go beyond login screen. Hopefully a very temporary fault.
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kt
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Post by kt on Jul 22, 2016 8:26:58 GMT
An early morning update gone wrong?
It is all As and Bs with just 1 C. Loosening of the ratings or just finding better customers?
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blender
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Post by blender on Jul 22, 2016 8:48:47 GMT
Special Summer promotion. Free upgrades from E to C and D to B. Hurry, must end soon!
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SteveT
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Post by SteveT on Jul 22, 2016 8:55:38 GMT
I've also benefited 3 times in the last 2 weeks from Furtive Critters' current "Summer Cashback-unlikely" campaign. Thursday's seem to be the best day for this.
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SteveT
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Post by SteveT on Jul 26, 2016 15:11:31 GMT
Following today's advertised works to the Transfer In page (now "powered by Barclaycard"), my company FC account appears happy to accept instant debit card transfers in using my company debit card (previously only permitted for personal accounts). All I need now is some decent rate loans to lend on...
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Post by guff on Jul 26, 2016 15:34:51 GMT
Following today's advertised works to the Transfer In page (now "powered by Barclaycard"), my company FC account appears happy to accept instant debit card transfers in using my company debit card (previously only permitted for personal accounts). All I need now is some decent rate loans to lend on... … or some 3% cashback.
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Post by acky on Jul 27, 2016 15:09:05 GMT
Following today's advertised works to the Transfer In page (now "powered by Barclaycard"), my company FC account appears happy to accept instant debit card transfers in using my company debit card (previously only permitted for personal accounts). All I need now is some decent rate loans to lend on... … or some 3% cashback. ... methinks you should return to that planet of exotic hairstyles from whence you evidently came! 
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