Live Services dies a DIFFERENT death.

DennisN

In case any of you are thinking that this morning you are having the usual Live Services connection problem, you are NOT.

Here's a quote from a USA thread a few minutes ago...

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DennisN · Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2012 10:23 am Post subject:

Yes, mine has come back to life now. I see London is clear of traffic.
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Andy_P · Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2012 11:00 am Post subject:

Is it OK for you now, Dennis? Just checked at around 10:50 and I've got lots of traffic incidents showing in London on two different NAV 2 units.
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DennisN · Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2012 11:38 am Post subject:

Andy, I was doing tongue in cheek. London is ALWAYS clear of traffic when I get connected. Right now I can see markers at Bracknell and Guildford, but Londoners are the luckiest people on earth without a single problem on or inside the M25! Can you see the traffic at Bristol, M4/M5?
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Andy_P · Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2012 12:37 pm Post subject:

Ah, the old "horizon" issue.

Nope, furthest West I see is just past Swindon.
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Daggers · Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2012 1:07 pm Post subject:

Unfortunately I noticed the problem. Live Services finally sprang back into life at around 10:15, AFTER I had been sitting in a jam on the M1 (at Newport Pagnall) for almost an hour - and told me I still had a further 25 minutes to wait!
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strickers · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 27, 2005 Posts: 35

Mine has been off since last Thursday, check out the TomTom forums the system is in meltdown. Customer support has, to be polite, been absolutely shocking!

I'm pretty certain this is now my last TomTom.

peterc10 · Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2012 11:49 pm Post subject:

strickers · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 27, 2005 Posts: 35

It is still down for lots of people in the UK.

There is a good chance TomTom are going to be discussed on Watchdog in half an hour.

scotty76 · Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2012 9:28 pm Post subject:

Yup, still not working for me.

DennisN · Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2012 9:51 pm Post subject:

Yes, Watchdog report has just been on, thanks for the heads up.

It was VERY brief, but quite damning. Roughly "If you want to avoid traffic jams, don't rely on TomTom - their HD Traffic service has been down for two weeks."
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Gee-Pee · Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2012 10:18 pm Post subject:

strickers · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 27, 2005 Posts: 35

It might be for you but not for everyone, check out the 30 page thread on TomTom's discussion board!

DennisN · Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2012 10:36 pm Post subject:

Hmm. The thirty page thread was started (and mostly continued) by US contributors. I hesitate to suggest that 4,000+ miles distance might give different results?

I'd like to think the BBC might have read that thread and the ones about UK range, but they have created a doubt in my mind about their standards of investigation if that statement came out of them.

I KNOW there have been outages, but not for a fortnighht - mine has been dropping and picking up again quite regularly recently, but "down for two weeks" is pretty clear, so I should not have been getting anything.
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