Are you sure it was that this time Lynne? I am getting in through the front door and I doubt very much that Max would have got up at this time to re-boot a server. He must need sleep...

I've had terrible problems with the Internet over the last couple of day. Vartec my broadband supplier went down several times, some of which I believe was down to a major country wide BT problem.

I use freeuk for a back up dial route in and that has taken me up to 1/2 hour to get a dial in. So that's 2 ISPs who had problems.

It's possible if there were big national Internet problems, it might have been co-incidental timing that allowed one route to work for you but the other not.