Helderberg mostly without power after Eskom transformer switch on goes wrong.

[Other Pineapple Smurf]

@AchmatK have you also been spared load-shedding this week?

 

[konfab]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1502243964749070339

 

[Other Pineapple Smurf]

You live in a dump, move.

Here MTN goes missing. But Telkom and Fibre seems to stay online. Telkom being the most reliable.

Octotel stayed up since 3:40am without a hiccup - really impressed with their network. Mobile networks were already dead by 8am for data, only SMS going through.

 

[HunterNW]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1502243964749070339

My fok. They now steel cables in Cape Town ? Fcking pests.

 

[konfab]

My fok. They now steel cables in Cape Town ? Fcking pests.

They should consider running electricity down them or something.

 

[HunterNW]

They should consider running electricity down them or something.

So who's the culprits down that side ?

 

[RedViking]

Octotel stayed up since 3:40am without a hiccup - really impressed with their network. Mobile networks were already dead by 8am for data, only SMS going through.

Wonder when we getting good satellite, surely that should stay online?

 

[RedViking]

My fok. They now steel cables in Cape Town ? Fcking pests.

Sabotage. There are people who wants to see the country burn and enrich the dictators.

 

[HunterNW]

Sabotage. There are people who wants to see the country burn and enrich the dictators.

Agree.

 

["D"]

All WFH employees should have an inverter or battery pack as a minimum requirement.

That won't help.

Cellphone tower batteries get stolen country wise. I have absolutely no connectivity during loadshedding on any network. Even my fibre goes down.

You live in a dump, move.

Sounds like a one-horse town / one-tower burb.

 

[Alton Turner Blackwood]

Sounds like a one-horse town / one-tower burb.

I live next to Durbanville so we share the same towers.

@dualmeister @Affieplaas do you have any cell towers working when it rains?

 

[Affieplaas]

I live next to Durbanville so we share the same towers.

@dualmeister @Affieplaas do you have any cell towers working when it rains?

Drizzling at the moment. Haven't see proper rain in Durbanville in a while.
I live about 100m away from the tower located on the Durbanville golf course. This is what I get at the moment with Eskom up and a slight drizzle. When Eskom goes down I can't even open the speedtest app, I am then completely without any type of internet be it fibre or mobile.

 

[AchmatK]

@AchmatK have you also been spared load-shedding this week?

Yep.

First time out went off was at 4am this morning and ended making up for all the missed days.

 

[Alton Turner Blackwood]

Drizzling at the moment. Haven't see proper rain in Durbanville in a while.
I live about 100m away from the tower located on the Durbanville golf course. This is what I get at the moment with Eskom up and a slight drizzle. When Eskom goes down I can't even open the speedtest app.

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Damn! The rain has me all confused. I meant when there is loadshedding, not when it rains

 

[Affieplaas]

Damn! The rain has me all confused. I meant when there is loadshedding, not when it rains

If the power goes, I have zero data connectivity on MTN. Even standard voice calls drop and the quality is so bad I can hardly hear the person on the other side.

 

[Alton Turner Blackwood]

If the power goes, I have zero data connectivity on MTN. Even standard voice calls drop and the quality is so bad I can hardly hear the person on the other side.

Same here and I have tested MTN, Vodascam and TM. No signal. It just displays "Emergency Calls Only". I don't have a CellC SIM to test them.

And, like you, my fibre also goes down. It makes me realise how reliant I am on connectivity every single time there's loadshedding.

 

[Other Pineapple Smurf]

Latest from my ward councillor, this is getting more interesting. The substation is poorly guarded with vandals having stripped a building there.

There is also an informal settlement next to it with mostly drug users.

 

[Fulcrum29]

Ek is die **** in vir die dag. You guys don't know much kak this is causing.

 

[The Voice]

Friends of mine can’t leave their complex because the gate won’t open and no-one has the key to operate it manually.

 

[Fulcrum29]

If the power goes, I have zero data connectivity on MTN. Even standard voice calls drop and the quality is so bad I can hardly hear the person on the other side.

MTN is always dead when there is a outage here. It is better now. Vodacom is okay. The landlines in my area are inoperable since early morning. My ONT wants to know nothing. Almost no communication could have been made today. This is a problem when backup power cannot provide continuity.