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Comment by charlieegan3 | Hacker News Reader

It'd be nice if we got email notifications about this. I wasted time trying to work out what was going on (and if the issue was in our local network).

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You want to them to email you to tell you your internet service is down? Er ...

Most people have redundancy. Computer has wifi, phone has LTE. Usually different providers.

I would love an email thst my internet service is down. Or text.

Many of the niche ISPs such as AAISP provide line status notifications.

Incidentally BT also has infrastructure or delivering SMS to landline voice numbers via text to speech - or at least had as of a couple of years ago - so as lon as it's the broadband service and not the end user lines that were down they'd still be able to deliver it.

Yes, because email can be received on mobile phone which is outside of BT

Lots of people get email on their phones these days via a mobile data connection. Our DSL connection isn't 'down' - just really, really slow.

The mobile connection still goes through an ISP...

I see the point you're making (and I did laugh) but a lot of us get e-mails on our phones and would still be able to pick them up if our ISP went down.

Funnily enough I can get emails on my mobile, even when my landline is down..

Not sure if it is a complete outage, I'm having issues with many sites, but HN works fine - which usually points to a DNS issue cough

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