Check the outage first — by postcode
Magenta offers an official outage check by postcode on their website. Thirty seconds there beat an hour of restarting: if your area is listed, it is their job — lean back or use mobile data. Service line: 0676 200 7777 (daily 8:00–22:00).
The proper cable-router restart
Power off, 30 seconds, power on — then wait five minutes while the box negotiates with the network. Cable modems in particular look „broken“ during those minutes and are not. Once, properly, is enough.
TV gone too?
Magenta TV runs over the same connection — if internet and TV die together, it is the line or an outage, not your TV box. See the TV guide for the box-only case.
Only one device offline?
If the rest of the household streams happily while your laptop refuses: the connection is fine, the device is the issue — remote-fixable, first look free.
