Was ringing up Xtra about a e-mail problem and it seems even though their network status message online says everything is sweet, that they have a major broadband outage nationwide because of a switch failure starting at 7AM.

I'm in parnell and arn't having any problems, and can connect via XNET to Xtra's e-mail servers so don't know how widespread this is, or what it's affecting, or if it's been fixed, but the helpdesk guy seems to think it's still a huge problem and affecting lots of people. 

My call did get dropped half way though to him while troubleshooting something else, so who knows.