After ringing up CS today to cancel the engineer for Wednesday, VM are now advertising on the faults menu that "there is" a area problem with BB in the BN1 to BN14 areas.
This was at about 13.00 Tuesday lunchtime, at least they are now acknowledging it, unlike the two Indian CS people I spoke to who insisted that the reason my computer and "x-box" was slow and dropping out was because I had a virus!!
Anyway fellow Brightonians at least we now know that its not our equipment at fault but a local network problem, as for myself my connection has been good for over 24 hours now, and not a single problem on Xbox-live, btw I'm in the Withdean area.
Also I've just noticed on the VM status page that Brighton has been removed

hopefully that means Brighton's back up and running as it should be.
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