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ronw

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#239871 8-Aug-2018 19:45

Orcon appears to be down fibre wise. I lost it at 7:29 pm Brian's Bay area anyone else affected

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#2070188 8-Aug-2018 19:49

Me too - Browns Bay, Akl

Nothing on their network status page yet.

ronw

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#2070190 8-Aug-2018 19:54

Never is anything on their network status that is useful. It should be automated

Nokia 7 Plus
Nexus 6P 32Gb
Nexus 6 Phone
Nexus 5 Phone
Nexus 7 2013 Tablet
Samsung TAB A 8"
Samsung TAB A 10"

& many Windows laptops, Desktops etc

slingynz

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#2070191 8-Aug-2018 19:55

Slingshot posted on Facebook that they have some sort of fibre outage in akl but no details yet

dauckland

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#2070193 8-Aug-2018 20:01

Down in St Heliers as well but yeah, no post on status page

dauckland

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#2070194 8-Aug-2018 20:02

Actually, just as i posted it came back

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#2070195 8-Aug-2018 20:03

bet @sounddude tripped over a cable ;)

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ronw

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#2070196 8-Aug-2018 20:06

Likewise Browns Bay

Nokia 7 Plus
Nexus 6P 32Gb
Nexus 6 Phone
Nexus 5 Phone
Nexus 7 2013 Tablet
Samsung TAB A 8"
Samsung TAB A 10"

& many Windows laptops, Desktops etc

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#2070197 8-Aug-2018 20:08

Back up here in Manukau on Slingshot who were affected by the same fault.

sonyxperiageek

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#2070290 8-Aug-2018 21:06

Me too in West Auckland, with Slingshot. Back up now.

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bameron

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#2070311 8-Aug-2018 21:51

Very sorry for the disruption all - you'd have realised by now that we did experience a problem earlier this evening, but this has been sorted and is under observation.

ubernoob

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#2070313 8-Aug-2018 21:55

Thanks Orcon, but nothing on the Slingshot "Official known issues" forum here on Geekzone

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#2070314 8-Aug-2018 21:59

Was also an outage on Vocus so maybe an upstream provider issue tonight

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#2070321 8-Aug-2018 22:17

Yes we had a bad night. Sorry for any inconvenience :-(

sonyxperiageek

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#2070333 8-Aug-2018 23:01

Sounddude:

Yes we had a bad night. Sorry for any inconvenience :-(

So who dug through another cable (what happened) ?

Sony

Nil Einne

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#2070342 9-Aug-2018 02:38

Dunno about official status but it was/is on their Twitter :-P

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