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Widespread internet outages around North Island (www.rnz.co.nz)
submitted 2 weeks ago by Dave@lemmy.nz to c/newzealand@lemmy.nz
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Widespread internet outages are being felt around the North Island, telecommunications company Voyager says.

It says it has identified an issue affecting "Chorus Wellington UFB (ultrafast broadband) handover".

"This handover services Wellington, Kapiti, Hutt Valley, Palmerston North and through to Napier."

Voyager said Chorus had identified the source of the issue and are working on a fix.

Currently around 90 percent of connections are offline.

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[–] TagMeInSkipIGotThis@lemmy.nz 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Lots of the various provider's networks have central routing in Akl, Wgn & (sometimes) Chc. So everything lower north island hauling back to Courtney Place doesn't surprise me. For a fault like this one to impact i'd guess that either some redundancy had already been lost prior to this failure, or for some other reason it didn't failover in a predictable & non-impacting way. It happens.

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah it's pretty rare so whatever system they are using is surely working fine most of the time.