JHB network stuffed again

[JTech]

Ja, the network is screwed again

Look how many basestations are down..

Auckland Park Down
Bedford Gardens Down
Benoni Down
Blairgowrie Down
Boksburg Down
Braamfontein Down
Bramley North Down
Bramley South Down
Germiston Down
Hyde Park Down
Illovo Down
Killarney Down
Linden Down
Linksfield Down
Norwood Down
Observatory Down
Parkhurst Down
Risana Down
Rosebank Down
Rosebank Mall Down

 

[Jongi]

for the love of God.

 

[JTech]

Can you imagine what I go through when this happens... customers phone me one after the other and crap all over me...

 

[Cara]

Yiks, that's a lot. Do you know what the problem is? Want to write a story on it and have asked for comment so will wait and see.

 

[JTech]

I phoned them and they said "eish hau our tekknishians are wekking on da probelem"

My one customer who connects to the Auckland Park BS reported signal loss, all the signal LED's went off and the UTD status went blue. It was initially up and down because said customer phoned me and asked me for assistance, they suspected the LAN switch was acting up. Then it went down completely and they phoned me again telling me that their UTD has no signal at all (no LED's lit), followed by several others calling me and asking me why their iBurst has just died.

 

[Cara]

Are the base stations up and running again? They told me it lasted from 12:10-12:30 today and then redundancy measures kicked in.

 

[JTech]

My customer came up around 1:30pm, it was much longer than 20 minutes and it wasn't from 12:10, the short breaks started at 12:10, the outage was from 12:50, to 13h30. I saw their router come up at exactly 13h30 so iBurst is talking crap as usual. They brought up all the downed BS's in phases.