{"id":3246,"date":"2008-03-20T16:48:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-20T14:48:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-03-20T16:48:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-20T14:48:00","slug":"network-problems-hit-broadband-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/3246-network-problems-hit-broadband-users.html","title":{"rendered":"Network problems hit broadband users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Broadband users have been hit by hick-ups on both the Verizon Business and the SAIX networks, but thankfully the problems have been resolved just in time for the Easter weekend.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A problem on the Verizon Business network, which affected traffic between Johannesburg and Cape Town, started just before 11:00am today. <\/p>\n<p>This problem caused high latency and packet loss coupled with some website inaccessibility, but was resolved around mid-day.<\/p>\n<p>In another incident, Vodacom HSDPA subscribers suffered downtime and had trouble accessing international websites which seems to have been caused by&nbsp;faults on the SAIX network.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We can confirm that there were no network problems on Vodacom&#39;s mobile broadband network infrastructure. However, customers would have experienced connectivity problems and\/or slow throughput due to a failure in the internet infrastructure beyond the Vodacom network,&rdquo; said Dot Field, Chief Communications Officer, Vodacom Group.<\/p>\n<p>Vodacom said that their testing indicates that the issue has been resolved.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=110772\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Network problems caused frustration among broadband subscribers today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telecoms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3246"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}