Web Surfers stuck locally
Many users in the Gauteng region had to make do with limited access on Saturday afternoon.
According to Telkom executive for communications, Lulu Letlape, there were problems with the line card on the New Dorrnfontein exchange.
“All clients that connected to New Doornfontein on Saturday would have experienced the slow international browsing due to a line card failure. In the actual exchange there are several cards that clients connect to. When these cards need to be replaced for any reason it will be client affecting,” said Lulu Letlape, Group Executive – Corporate Communications at Telkom.
“Time down started at 11:49 but the matter was corrected shortly before 16:00 (on Saturday). Telkom apologises to all clients who were inconvenienced,” she continued.
Whilst the apology is appreciated the fact that these ‘outages’ are becoming more frequent is worrisome causing speculators to wonder if we have another Eskom on our hands.
This is the second consecutive problem over the weekends, and users are growing visibly frustrated with the outages. Comments like “Wonder if this is to become a regular week-end occurrence?” are starting to appear more often on the MyADSL forums.
Yesterday users have also complained that they were unable to access international content, specifically ‘.org’ domain sites. The source of the problem is however still unknown.
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