Down detector - Spark outages

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kapitikarl

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Master Geek

#171697 28-Apr-2015 11:15

After Sunday's internet problems around 9pm, I happened to find the following website which I found very interesting. I ams ure you all know about it - https://downdetector.co.nz

Interestingly, doing a comparison today between spark and vodafone produced the following live outages. Just thought I would share it with you:

wasabi2k

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#1292841 28-Apr-2015 11:21

What do you find interesting in the attached image?

kapitikarl

151 posts

Master Geek

#1292863 28-Apr-2015 11:32

The use of blue, funny spikey things and the NZ map - oh and the difference in spikey things

xpd

Geek @ Coastguard NZ
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#1292878 28-Apr-2015 11:53

Thing is with that site, people have got to know it exists to be able to report the fault..... so you could just say that Spark customers are more aware of the site and laid a complaint there whereas Vodafone may have had more outages, but their customers dont know about the site.

Gavin / xpd / FastRaccoon / Geek of Coastguard New Zealand

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kapitikarl

151 posts

Master Geek

#1292881 28-Apr-2015 11:55

It could be the other way round - that would be awful :-s

wasabi2k

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Uber Geek

#1292908 28-Apr-2015 12:41

Yeah, anything that involves users reporting faults I doubt the veracity of.

An online service to report that your internet is down..... maybe vodafone is just so broken noone can report an outage.

Then as has been said who know this site exists?
then does it adjust for the customer base?

etc..etc...etc...