Re: South Island Internet Outages
Bob Brown <[email protected]>
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I found this: http://m.geekzone.co.nz/Forums/82/Topic/143543. Explains a lot. Looks like one of the guys on the forum may be on the inside at Orcon. Not sure of location but I ran into someone yesterday who was coming south on Friday and had to stop at Maheno because SH1 was impassable due to flooding. Cheers, Bob (also on Orcon) On 20 Apr 2014 11:45, Geoff Barkman <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi there > Our internet went down about 10am on good friday and came up again 4pm > on saturday 19th. It was down for over 24 hours. We are on Orcon ADSL. > I got a friend in Invercargill on Telecom Fibre... his internet is > still not working. > > Anyone got an idea whether at was all internet providors that went > down or just a few of them? The orcon website said that a fibre cable > was cut somewhere up north and had to be repaired. Apparently they are > using an alternative link. > > http://www.orcon.net.nz/support/network_status > 19/04/14 11:00 pm Dunedin-Christchurch Backhaul > Service is re-routed via an alternative link. Equipment may require a > reboot to come back online. > > > Does anyone else know of any news etc about it? > -- > Cheers > Geoff Barkman > ====================================== > > _______________________________________________ > DunLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ethernal.org/listinfo/dunlug > DunLUG Wiki - http://dunlug.kallisti.net.nz/ _______________________________________________ DunLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ethernal.org/listinfo/dunlug DunLUG Wiki - http://dunlug.kallisti.net.nz/