[Outages-discussion] [outages] UK wide DSL broadband outages

[Joseph Burford]

> Because BT's RADIUS servers which look at the realm of the login and route the
> session to the correct ISP are unable to cope with the load of all the ADSL
> users in the country continually reconnecting during an outage like this.

What a horribly broken way to offer a wholesale service to other ISPs.

Sounds like the problems that we used to see with Telstra in Australia
7 or 8 years ago.