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Further to my recent post “Backup Connections: Is more ever enough? when I left that post I was waiting for BT to arrive on site to investigate the problem. As it turns out I received a call around 5:30pm from BT instead telling me they were about to check the line when, and these are the engineers words “it miraculously came back on” - maybe someone above is watching down on me? Looking on the positive side at least the backup connection is now working but it does beg the question - what is the point of a backup circuit when it doesn’t work when you need it. Also, was it just a co-incidence that the backup circuit went down at the same time as the primary circuit? They are different providers and one would assume take diverse routes? Questions Questions when I need Answers Answers.

This week I plan to provision an ADSL backup circuit so at least we have some kind of Internet connection when all else fails.