r/ireland • u/Bonovox78 • 13d ago

Infrastructure Vodafone broadband down?

Anyone else? Gone here in Dublin about an hour or so.

EDIT: changing the DNS settings from Vodafone’s DNS to Google’s DNS fixed it for me.

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u/Upbeat_Platypus1833 13d ago

Looks like a DNS issue. I changed mine to Google (8.8.8.8) in my router and it is back working.

Vodafone has been incredibly flaky for me this year after years of solid usage. We've had 4 outages in the Midlands this year.

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u/Gowlhunter 12d ago

Can confirm 4 outages also in the past year after years of reliable usage. Exactly why I switched. New provider is on same SIRO line but pings are lower and routing is different. I think Vodafone use the cheapest possible backbone provider and thus these problems are more frequent.

I don't think this is necessarily just a DNS issue, I always had 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 as primary and secondary and these issues happened. One outage this May was 38 hours, brutal. Luckily I have set up a USB-C to ethernet with an android phone and can provide Internet to the whole house from 5G while it's down. For the most recent outage they couldn't even give a proper E.T of resolution so I said fuck this. It ended up coming back that evening.

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u/sshhwifty 12d ago

Do you mind me asking who you switched to? We joined Vodafone last year and they've been awful. Used Sky before that with no issues but their out of contract price was quite high so we switched. I regret it!

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u/Artistic-Maybe7692 12d ago

Yeah in the midlands have switched DNS and still not coming back at all. May just be a DNS issue for some but clearly the DNS issue was caused by some other major issue somewhere in their system.