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littleheaven

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#293317 13-Jan-2022 12:53
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My sister has Spark Max Fibre broadband and has recently been experiencing intermittent outages. This morning she took a look at her ONT and was alarmed to see it appeared to be discoloured from heat. It is not in direct sun. She laid a meat thermometer on top and it was reading around 50 Celsius. For comparison, my ONT reads at 35-40 Celsius. She tried contacting Spark but just got the normal "have you tried turning off the modem or using a different cable?" and she gave up in frustration after a long time of getting nowhere. Anyone here with ONT expertise - is this normal? Should she be alarmed? Would overheating cause her connection to drop randomly? How would she go about getting the ONT replaced? TIA!

 

 

 





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  #2849927 13-Jan-2022 12:59
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Spark will be able to run a test on their ONT and see what's been dropping. They can see the difference between an optical outage the ONT powering off. And then from there will decide if its worth Chorus investigating.

 

They do run warm, and discolouring isn't all that uncommon for any white electronics that are on 24/7. The old Dynalink and Draytek adsl modems were a great example of that. Would be brown within the year, but keep on trucking for 5 more years no sweat.




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  #2849930 13-Jan-2022 13:02
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Thanks for the info. I guess she will have to keep persisting with Spark support in an attempt to get beyond the standard troubleshooting!





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  #2849983 13-Jan-2022 13:07
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The Spark Android app (and I assume iOS app) has a guided check option.
May possibly be worth a go?




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littleheaven

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  #2849990 13-Jan-2022 13:20
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Cool, thank you. I will mention that to her.





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