This is a trickier question to answer. The duration of a broadband outage will depend on a number of factors, including the scale of the outage and the reason for it. If the cabling is the reason for the outage, then those premises affected will find themselves unable to connect to the internet until an engineer is able to fix the problem. In some cases, this could mean that those affected will be left without a broadband connection for many days. On the other hand, an outage caused by high volumes of internet traffic could be resolved quickly, usually within a few hours at the most.