This completely stymied me - joining a meeting while WFH: broadband goes down, can't use the SIM in my computer, can't tether to my phone as they are all using Vodafone.
I could tether to my (non Vodafone) phone, but my work laptop refused to connect to the WiFi hotspot until I physically unplugged the ethernet cable from the dock. "You can't connect to another network while you're on your employer's network." I'm not!
That's one of the reasons I kept my Irish SIM even after I got my Danish one. I've found it useful on plenty of occasions to switch to the other, especially when traveling.
This was quite catastrophic - everything was down, even nationwide mobile data for Vodafone users (and piggybacking MVNOs). I hope we get more info or a postmortem.
It also had spillover effects on other providers — O2 service was degraded
Wonder if it's anything to do with the in-progress merging with Three?
I've noticed my MVNO Vodafone service, which was faultless, suddenly declining. Random dropouts are fairly common, no connection inside some big buildings (whereas Vodafone's infrastructure is known for being better inside and Three's much worse. Makes me think I'm being shunted onto Three's infrastructure)
With 5GB sims costing £2-5/month it is well worth buying a backup sim if this matters to you. I pay for two sims in two countries and was able to use the other's roaming data when Vodafone went down.
I'm not sure that would necessarily have helped. My regular sim was on another network (giff gaff), that was down. Went out and bought a pay-and-go sim on yet another network (EE) - no dice there either. Not sure what the issue was, but it seemed to have knock-on impacts in areas like mine that were affected.
It looks like the number of IPv4 /24s their ASN was announcing has dropped significantly: https://radar.cloudflare.com/routing/as5378#announced-ip-add...
This completely stymied me - joining a meeting while WFH: broadband goes down, can't use the SIM in my computer, can't tether to my phone as they are all using Vodafone.
I could tether to my (non Vodafone) phone, but my work laptop refused to connect to the WiFi hotspot until I physically unplugged the ethernet cable from the dock. "You can't connect to another network while you're on your employer's network." I'm not!
That's one of the reasons I kept my Irish SIM even after I got my Danish one. I've found it useful on plenty of occasions to switch to the other, especially when traveling.
Everything was down: broadband, their website and even their support phone numbers. Talk about putting all the eggs in one basket! :)
This was quite catastrophic - everything was down, even nationwide mobile data for Vodafone users (and piggybacking MVNOs). I hope we get more info or a postmortem.
It also had spillover effects on other providers — O2 service was degraded
Wonder if it's anything to do with the in-progress merging with Three?
I've noticed my MVNO Vodafone service, which was faultless, suddenly declining. Random dropouts are fairly common, no connection inside some big buildings (whereas Vodafone's infrastructure is known for being better inside and Three's much worse. Makes me think I'm being shunted onto Three's infrastructure)
Seems to have recovered now
With 5GB sims costing £2-5/month it is well worth buying a backup sim if this matters to you. I pay for two sims in two countries and was able to use the other's roaming data when Vodafone went down.
I'm not sure that would necessarily have helped. My regular sim was on another network (giff gaff), that was down. Went out and bought a pay-and-go sim on yet another network (EE) - no dice there either. Not sure what the issue was, but it seemed to have knock-on impacts in areas like mine that were affected.
I feel validated for having 4 (four) different provider options (personal + work phones, my cable, and neighbour's Wi-Fi :))
anything to do with the massive DDOS attacks that Krebs has been reporting against US carriers?