I was in that 10% too

Got in at 4:30/5 on Monday, booted up, and opened IE : cannot connect to server.

Rebooted modem = no luck

Unplugged modem, waited 5, plugged back in = no luck

Rebooted PC = no luck....

Went to sleep for an hour, opened IE = no luck

Rang Orange, navigated to the "status" line thingy, got told there was a "third party network failure" and they have no idea when it will be fixed

Got home today to find it was working again. My friend (also on Orange, and lives in the next town) got his back at 2:30pm - so I guess I got mine about that time too (was out at work) even tho the service messages timed at 3pm still said "nationwide network failure" (note it said THIRD PARTY again - never their fault is it!?!?!)

But thats still 22+hrs it was down - 22hrs that a service I pay 27 fucking quid for wasn't working! Not on in my book!

Any Dojj, you are right. I started with the original Freeserve - good as gold, never a problem I can remember. Then Wanadoo came along, again, can only remember less than a handfull of down times, but Orange is complete wank.....

If it wasn't for the fact I am on a completely unlimited (as in, when we took the Freeserve account, it was completely uncapped, none of this fair usage bollox), even tho it is still only a 512k line, I would switch tomorrow!