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Vodafone Internet Outage #2
Today, 14-Oct-2024, starting at 16:23 (CET), internet provided by Vodafone was unavailable.
At 20:51 internet was available again. So for almost five hours I had no internet and the blog went dark. Luckily, the IP address stayed the same, so I had no delay in DNS.
DOCSIS signal noise ratio is now good again.
1. Contact support. I tried to call the hotline of Vodafone but gave up after waiting in the line for more than 25 minutes. According to their own website they have a major outage in my region. They say they need three days to fix it. This means: my homepage, i.e., this blog, is unavailable for three days.
I used 5G to connect to their website and request an SMS, when internet is available again. I never received any SMS from them.
2. Google fonts. I now learned the hard way that not only my blog is not available outside my home, but also inside my home the blog experiences a severe and annoying delay. Reason: As I use Google fonts, and Google is not available for me, everything is lagging. This makes me think about:
That way there might be a better buffering of my content.
3. History of outages. I blogged about previous internet outages:
- In 2022 the Vodafone internet router was defective.
- No internet on 08-Jan-2024.
4. Uptime monitors. The uptime monitors correctly diagnosed the problem.
- Hetrix
- Down: Noticed at: 2024-10-14 15:31:00 (UTC+01:00)
- Up: Noticed at: 2024-10-14 20:00:42 (UTC+01:00)
- BetterUptime
- Down: Started at: 14 Oct 2024 at 04:46pm CEST
- Up: Resolved at: 14 Oct 2024 at 10:15pm CEST (automatically)
- UptimeRobot
- Down: Incident started at 2024-10-14 17:06:17
- Up: Resolved at 2024-10-14 20:05:22
- ping-failure-test every 30 minutes
Mon Oct 14 04:39:20 PM CEST 2024
Mon Oct 14 05:09:06 PM CEST 2024
Mon Oct 14 05:39:06 PM CEST 2024
Mon Oct 14 06:09:06 PM CEST 2024
Mon Oct 14 06:39:06 PM CEST 2024
Mon Oct 14 07:09:06 PM CEST 2024
Mon Oct 14 07:39:06 PM CEST 2024
Mon Oct 14 08:09:06 PM CEST 2024
Mon Oct 14 08:39:06 PM CEST 2024
Obviously, Hetrix is the most detailed monitor.