{"id":537971,"date":"2024-05-21T19:05:04","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T17:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=537971"},"modified":"2024-05-21T19:13:40","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T17:13:40","slug":"big-afrihost-openserve-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/fibre\/537971-big-afrihost-openserve-problems.html","title":{"rendered":"Big Afrihost Openserve problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Afrihost customers on Openserve\u2019s fibre infrastructure are reporting problems with their connectivity. The issue is also affecting Telkom DSL users.<\/p>\n<p>Some subscribers have reported that they have no Internet access, while others say their connections are intermittent\u2014reconnecting briefly before disconnecting again.<\/p>\n<p>Reports on Downdetector show that reports of problems on Afrihost and Openserve started spiking at around 17:45 on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Afrihost confirmed the issue at 18:10, saying it is attending to it. According to the status report, the problem is affecting customers nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfrihost engineers are actively working on resolving the ongoing intermittent connection issue experienced by Openserve clients. We apologise for the inconvenience caused,\u201d it stated.<\/p>\n<p>According to Afrihost\u2019s network status page, Openserve subscribers also had problems earlier today.<\/p>\n<p>At 09:25, it said that customers were reporting limited connectivity and that the company was working on identifying and resolving the issue.<\/p>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Afrihost-Openserve-outage-21-May-2024.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-537973\" src=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Afrihost-Openserve-outage-21-May-2024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"571\" height=\"202\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afrihost has confirmed it is experiencing a problem affecting clients on Openserve&#8217;s fibre infrastructure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":483711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28470],"tags":[1669,35],"class_list":["post-537971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fibre","tag-afrihost","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537971"}],"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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}