{"id":547305,"date":"2005-11-18T10:26:32","date_gmt":"2005-11-18T10:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/547305-iburst-users-experiencing-connectivity-problems.html"},"modified":"2005-11-18T10:26:32","modified_gmt":"2005-11-18T10:26:32","slug":"iburst-users-experiencing-connectivity-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/547305-iburst-users-experiencing-connectivity-problems.html","title":{"rendered":"iBurst Users Experiencing Connectivity Problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">Users in this region have reported faults on the Sunnyside, Menlo and Wonderboom towers.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">MyADSL members reported network degradation from around the 14th of November but WBS helpdesk informed MyADSL that they have had problems in this region for the past 2 weeks.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The information filtering down from the WBS helpdesk is that the Sunnyside and Wonderboom towers are now fully functional after their technicians did a maintenance check on both towers.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The Menlo tower was down for a large part of this morning but the problem was identified and solved at around 11 am today according to Jackie Hendricks, media relations at WBS.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The initial problems were from interference between the three towers according to the helpdesk operator. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">He was able to add that WBS is installing bigger switches and doing a quick upgrade and maintenance on the Menlo base station.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Hendricks said that iBurst users should go to the website for details about the technical problems with the iBurst towers.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">She was unable to give specifics about this particular issue but assured users that all the information they needed would be on their website shortly.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The current status of the Menlo tower on the website reads: \u201cCritical backhaul failure causing base station outage.\u201d<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=32129\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><font size=\"2\">Discuss this article<\/font><\/a> <\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reports about severe downtime on the iBurst network in Pretoria filtered through on the MyADSL forum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547305"}],"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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}