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The National Broadband Network (NBN) is an Australian national wholesale open-access data network project and offers landline phone and internet network.

Problems in the last 24 hours

The graph below depicts the number of NBN reports received over the last 24 hours by time of day. When the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line, an outage is determined.

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Most Reported Problems

The following are the most recent problems reported by NBN users through our website.

  • 77% Internet (77%)
  • 10% Wi-fi (10%)
  • 6% Total Blackout (6%)
  • 5% E-mail (5%)
  • 1% TV (1%)
  • 1% Phone (1%)

Live Outage Map

The most recent NBN outage reports came from the following cities: Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Bundaberg, Adelaide, Perth, Taree, Rosalie Plains, Campbelltown, Hobart, Mildura, Toowoomba, Dubbo, Warragul, and Windermere.

CityProblem TypeReport Time
Melbourne Wi-fi 2 hours ago
Sydney Wi-fi 12 hours ago
Sydney Internet 12 hours ago
Brisbane Internet 14 hours ago
Melbourne Wi-fi 22 hours ago
Melbourne Internet 22 hours ago
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NBN Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

  • PeterLeversha
    Peter Leversha (@PeterLeversha) reported

    @Johnuh9d @AvidCommentator The NBN is expensive crap. The NDIS has turned into a complete rort. The GFC was an American housing crisis that had very little to to do with us. The pandemic was an over reaction. They've blown the lot. Money wasted with zero return on investment. Both parties are responsible for this mess and all I see for the future is higher unemployment and a low currency. It's going to be a double whammy. We are already in a per capita recession. The country needs some serious reform and it needs it right now..

  • TheLucidyn
    Lucidyn (@TheLucidyn) reported

    @UrbanHubbard @Batman2242 Turnbull botched it. The original fibre and fixed wireless sections of the NBN were worth doing. Switching to Fibre to the Curb was an expensive mistake that has already needed replacing in most areas. This isn’t a left/right issue, and that’s not my point anyway. You missed the core of my post. The NBN was and still is a good idea. It just needed far better design than the “back of a napkin” version under Rudd, and Turnbull shouldn’t have messed around with the plan the way he did. I worked with people who installed the cabnets during the transition and saw exactly what changed inside them. With over 20 years in the IT industry, I know what I’m looking at. My actual point is that comparing the NBN to Starlink is unfair. It’s like comparing the entire fixed telephone network to mobile phones in the 1990s. Mobiles were revolutionary, but they didn’t replace the fixed network they complemented it.

  • MCLove2024
    Madeleine Love (@MCLove2024) reported

    We're paying progressively more taxes, and our services are decreasing. We just got a generic letter telling us our landline phone will be disconnected in 7 months. We used to have copper line which provided a highly reliable service in emergencies, whether power and internet was on, or not. I recall ringing a (surviving) neighbour in the middle of the Marysville 2009 Black Saturday fires. We had a chat while his smoke alarm was going off and the fire was raging outside. Phone through broadband was hopeless whenever the power or internet went down, which happens frequently. Mobiles are useless whenever the internet goes down, and not long after the power goes off. But those copper wire phones were fantastic. You could actually ring the electricity company when the power was off, and tell them that the power was off and could they fix it. I'm not joining the nbn.

  • johnnymoo1969
    Johnnymoo1969 (@johnnymoo1969) reported

    @NBN_Australia how bad is the NBN !!! - took annual leave today and no bastard turned up - FU NBN - you’re another govt disgrace - they couldn’t give a **** about the customer or their time - another @ausgov disaster - we are a third world country

  • MattFinch484805
    Matt Finch (@MattFinch484805) reported

    @TheAusInstitute Malcolm wants to defend the country with Dorkas. Like his Dorky garbage NBN and Snowy snowflake grift. You can bet whatever Malcom here is advocating for his face will be deep in the trough

  • GarfieldR1966
    Garfield C. Reynolds (@GarfieldR1966) reported

    @NBN_Australia I reported to my isp and all they can do is pass on to me the information that NBN gives them. That there’s a known issue and that a technician was sent out. But so far no estimate on when network will be restored.

  • optus_help
    Optus Help (@optus_help) reported

    @KatrinaLarsen Hey, Katrina. We're sorry to hear that your service is currently impacted by an NBN outage. In the instance that your Optus modem that does not facilitate 4G back-up, our teams will look to provide interim support such as the Optus Internet Assistance Kit. This can be posted or collect from your nearest Optus store. If you hold an Optus Prepaid or Postpaid Mobile service, please don't hesitate to send through a Direct Message, and we can look to apply some Mobile Data to support using your Mobile as a Wi-Fi hotspot in the interim. - Dillon

  • Thelp725428
    T help (@Thelp725428) reported

    @AnthonyDonB @Starlink Latency is terrible - it works but if you can get fibre / nbn - stick with that - even Elmo says it can’t compete with cable in cities

  • jlmcmlxvii
    cockitythegalah (@jlmcmlxvii) reported

    @p_terg IT ordeal 😵‍💫 They got the NBN on today. Box nowhere near the computer and computer doesn’t have a wifi adapter. So I did the dash down the road and got them a 10m Ethernet cable and away they go.

  • GarfieldR1966
    Garfield C. Reynolds (@GarfieldR1966) reported

    @NBN_Australia sure enough this problem still isn’t resolved. Outage page has been showing us as facing network degradation all week. Regular dropouts and slow connectivity. Will you ever fix this???

  • GoodFellaBoiBoi
    GoodFellaBoi ➕ (Майк) 🏴‍☠️ 🇦🇺 🇺🇦 ( 🇳🇱 🇵🇱) (@GoodFellaBoiBoi) reported

    @showcallcrewing @NBN_Australia I ended up using iiNET because the offer a 4G backup, very important for work. And Optus did not help when NBN tech disconnected me, by mistake, as their record were not accurate, so they cut me. For it sorted in 3 days, but no apology from NBN for their error no follow up.

  • richardmelb05
    Richie_Night Owl (@richardmelb05) reported

    @Optus Hi Jay, I dont think you can assist me, one of your optus colleagues has told me by phone, nbn is having an unplanned outage, nbn isnt saying how long it will last

  • powderkeg2024
    10forTBguy 🇦🇺 (@powderkeg2024) reported

    @theheraldsun Musk saved rural Australia from such a slow and unreliable service! NBN fails all Australians. We should thank the uniparty for a company that will never deliver any financial return to taxpayers and has left us paying for very expensive internet by other OECD standards.

  • BrentHodgson
    Brent Hodgson (@BrentHodgson) reported

    @geofiasco @DHughesy @aaronsmith Aside: Whether the Telstra sale was ultimately a windfall is contested. It raised $60bn to sell the assets, then we spent $60bn on NBN Co just to regain access to the assets sold and duplicate/upgrade the network we sold - and Telstra has paid something like $80-85bn in shareholder dividends along the way. In many respects, NBN shouldn't exist. It should have been the $80-85bn in "shareholder dividends" to the Public Owner that paid for the fibres to be laid - not a $60bn investment after a $60bn sale. But NBN was forced to be created after a now-shareholder-owned Telstra responded to how it might build a national broadband network with a non-compliant 12 page letter effectively saying "we won't - the copper wires are our privately-owned monopoly and we want to protect our market monopoly".

  • IyBrat
    Brat (@IyBrat) reported

    @Batman2242 Idiot without NBN you would not have internet during COVID to jack off

  • SydneyCityTV
    SydneyCityTV (@SydneyCityTV) reported

    Here in Sydney, we're still waiting for the Nine Network's switch to a mostly MPEG4 multiplex which among other things, will bring with it 9LifeHD. No idea if they're waiting for NBN to move out before making that change or what, but I guess patience is a virtue in any case!

  • fairies4one
    iamfee (@fairies4one) reported

    @Batman2242 Our nbn network is a joke!

  • anthony45052793
    anthony, underclass prole cat, edwards (@anthony45052793) reported

    @MichaelRuyg apology would be nice, no chance of a refund. despite larger ISP's being forced to refund people on fixed wireless who paid for service speed nbn could not deliver, my small one was not included in that settlement.

  • OlgaTeresaMarr
    Olga Teresa Marr (@OlgaTeresaMarr) reported

    @TheUSFeedX Yes I would because it’s a good service. But my service just went from $136 a month to $150 a month, yet the local NBN in Australia is about $85 a month.

  • Cassy090909
    Cassy090909 (@Cassy090909) reported

    @shaunacohn @Starlink If there is no service in your area, it’s likely due to development, outage or missing database record. Check the NBN Rollout Map on their website. Verify your address. Your address may be missing. There is widespread NBN coverage on Gold Coast. Check their website.

  • anthony45052793
    anthony, underclass prole cat, edwards (@anthony45052793) reported

    @MichaelRuyg yep, when they built the NBN fixed wireless tower, that carries optus and vodafone as well, it had a backup generator. then the tower got "upgraded" with 6 months of regular outages and then next power outage we discovered the backup generator and the ability to call 000 was gone

  • BrowntownBrew
    Cdbrown (@BrowntownBrew) reported

    @basespanker @Batman2242 That was a fttn upgrade with Telco support, but libs called it fraudband due to the minor upgrade so it got scrapped and years later the #nbn was formed to rollout fibre to 93% of premises. LNP got in and decided to do fraudband

  • Riogallica
    🌸 Rita Gee ♥ 🇦🇺 (@Riogallica) reported

    My @NBN has been down since 9am & they won't come to fix issue till Monday - 4 days (2nd time in 2 wks)! My Telstra hotspotting is weak. Time to hook up with @starlink Issue here is local installer charges an arm/leg etc to install sys on roof etc. I may have to suck it up.

  • johnnymoo1969
    Johnnymoo1969 (@johnnymoo1969) reported

    @MadsMelbourne Booked @NBN_Australia on Monday - said they’d be there between 8-12 - took day off and no one turned up - incompetent govt that doesn’t give a **** about people’s time - @Starlink here I come - FU NBN

  • PeterRule841618
    Pete Rule (@PeterRule841618) reported

    @TopherField Having previously worked for both Telstra and NBN, I can say NBN satellite and wireless are complete garbage, Starlink smashes it. NBN fibre is excellent though and speeds are world comparable. Still, many Aussies pick the cheapest slow plans which reduces our world rankings

  • tinhtrann
    Tính (@tinhtrann) reported

    @cb_doge The rural numbers are the real story imo. NBN was supposed to fix that gap and Starlink just walked in and did it faster.

  • jackkovaltrades
    Jack Koval (@jackkovaltrades) reported

    @CrashiusClay69 Damn dude, let's ****** ball.. I wish I could share my clip with you but I don't wanna doxx myself NBA. National TV. Sold Out Crowd. Swoosh. NBN TNT 🏀💣

  • richardmelb05
    Richie_Night Owl (@richardmelb05) reported

    Just got a call from @Optus the bloke told me @NBN_Australia has suffered an outage. He couldnt say how long the outage will last

  • jmdjait
    Jean-Michel Djaït 🇨🇵🇪🇺🇺🇳 (@jmdjait) reported

    @zammit_marc NBN. Never be nice.

  • trickyidnego
    Millicent Bystander (@trickyidnego) reported

    Waiting for nbn person to fix my internet. Has been down for over 2 weeks. Today my provider will take $$$ from my account to pay for internet i haven't been able to access. Capitalism is a beautiful thing BTW other countries fix stuff on the day but hey, oi oi oi oi