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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

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Most Reported Problems

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

  • 75% Internet (75%)
  • 12% Wi-fi (12%)
  • 8% Total Blackout (8%)
  • 3% E-mail (3%)
  • 1% TV (1%)
  • 1% Phone (1%)

Live Outage Map

The most recent NBN outage reports came from the following cities: Sydney, Melbourne, Dubbo, Brisbane, Perth, Croydon, Adelaide, Long Forest, Arumpo, Holmesville, Warragul, Cairns, Hobart, Parramatta, and Ashfield.

CityProblem TypeReport Time
Sydney Internet 3 hours ago
Melbourne Internet 6 hours ago
Dubbo Internet 7 hours ago
Sydney Internet 9 hours ago
Brisbane Internet 9 hours ago
Brisbane Internet 10 hours ago
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NBN Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

  • robb_j_m
    💥Dr Robb 🎓Social conscience? Follow me. No MAGA (@robb_j_m) reported

    To my Aussie friends: Wasn't the idea behind the NBN (National Broadband Network) to ensure that everyone had access to free (or at the very least inexpensive) internet? What happened? How much are you paying for internet access?

  • General_Ch4t
    GeneralChat |🍍🍌| Charity Donothon 29th-7th (@General_Ch4t) reported

    OK to explain the reason for missing my own Anniversary stream... basically there was a brief blackout here caused by a transformer blowing and it fried the NBN, so until a technician can come around on Tuesday I have no internet beyond my phone... I will try to make fir it somehow

  • DanielSMatthews
    𝑫𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒆𝒍 𝑺𝒄𝒐𝒕𝒕 𝑴𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒘𝒔 🇦🇺 (@DanielSMatthews) reported

    @eevblog I have both, NBN service stability is far less than Starlink's, so it is my backup. I could probably push traffic through both, did that with Telstra and Optus cable modems back in the day, but Starlink is so fast I haven't needed to bother.

  • Errol5870
    David Collins (@Errol5870) reported

    @australian People have already forgotten another of his past failures “The National Broadband Network”, NBN for short…

  • puxiesmt
    Susan (@puxiesmt) reported

    @jeff32567916 @australian He recognised that NBN via wifi (using mobile phone network) is a bad idea, when the mobile phone towers back up battery's go flat (couple if hours) we have no communication at all, we should all still have wired communication but we don't so it's very easy to switch it all off

  • baiaphilia
    Baiaphilia (@baiaphilia) reported

    What happened was what always happens when it's a project run by the government. It failed miserably, and went way over budget. The NBN was so bad I begged my provider to give me back my previous internet connection. But they couldn't because they forced them to shut it down.

  • jimboot
    Jim Stewart (@jimboot) reported

    @eevblog @Aussie_BB Been on on Starlink maybe 5 years. I can remember one outage because of a Solarflare. Wireless NBN was every other day. Good old Govt again

  • Majyqman42
    Majyqman (@Majyqman42) reported

    @larrikinstreak @robb_j_m The ISP pays a significant portion of the price of a service to NBN. I don’t know where you pulled your **** from to think it was free, but perhaps go fling it somewhere else.

  • some0nethere
    some0nethere (@some0nethere) reported

    @OMGTheMess I am an EV driver, but I do not think others should be paying for it. Perhaps if the government invested in standing up a government owned charger network that had a sound business case and sold it later, that might be ok. However, that was what NBN was supposed to do with internet...

  • imdavo17
    Dave (@imdavo17) reported

    @TFyrd49376 @TobiSkovron Labor introduced the NDIS, LNP messed with it. Like a long list of things introduced by Labor, the LNP screws with it and we are forced to endure the **** show that follows. NBN? LNP screwed it so hard it cost 3x as much for inferior infrastructure.

  • austhrottle
    Aus throttle (@austhrottle) reported

    I usually hate most government spending, but sometimes they get things right. The inland rail was a good project. Cancelling the inland rail is a terrible decision. It is just as important as the NBN, and in this case there isn’t a foreseeable technology that will replace it in 10 years time. Rail is insanely energy and labor efficient compared to trucks. Trucks should only be used for end of journey in a well optimised system.

  • MickamiousG
    Mickamious (@MickamiousG) reported

    Was there an issue with the 4G/5G network in Melbourne, Victoria today?? It seems as I got out of the CBD the network improved but within the metropolitan areas there was issues?? @Starlink at home seems to be operating fine - anyone have NBN issues?

  • Michael44814776
    Michael Brennan (@Michael44814776) reported

    No, nbn has cost far more due to LNP. LNP original costing: Promised $29.5B (2013 election); revised to $41B in Strategic Review. The evidence is that in the caucus , as detailed in Turnbull’s book, Abbott simply wanted LNP to be contrarian about nbn. They stopped the fibre rollout and replaced it with copper. At the time, LNPs message that nbn would go over budget was favoured due to a complicit media. For instance, when the ABC science editor did a comprehensive comparison between labour’s FTTP and LNP copper, the report was spiked until after the election, due to ABC management wanting to appease LNP. Then, under LNP, ABC did not have a science editor. Consider the subsequent dearth of reporting by ABC in following years about the biggest infrastructure project ever. Consider that Turnbull appointed a former business associate to be chair of ABC whilst a Director of NBN snd whilst a ceo of a supplier to NBN with a $100m contract for design and fabrication of copper based distribution boxes, which have subsequently been removed. So there is no surprise that the public were force fed the line that all that glitters is copper. The reality set in when the deterioration of the copper network became apparent to punters. The cost of NBN is now at approx $50B with $54B to 2030 to due to the replacement costs of LNPs copper systems with fibre. So Abbott and Turnbull cost the country many billions not to mention the years of misery and lost productivity by prolonging the copper network.

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

    @LooksDodgy @robb_j_m was on nbn fixed wireless, got tired of the outages and billing issues with my ISP, shifted to starlink. faster, far less outages and almost identical price. as a bonus starlink bills once per month, former isp billed every 28 days. that's nearly $100 a year less.

  • IanRichards8
    Ian Richards (@IanRichards8) reported

    @robb_j_m Terrible internet access, NBN stands for NO BLOODY NETWORK

  • moresunshine_1
    John Cas (@moresunshine_1) reported

    @Sauronlordking If there is one thing I didn't mind from the ALP that would be the NBN in its original form. Then this idiot came around and mutilated it into his own little mixed up mess. That now has to be unraveled at even more expense!!!

  • maximationmax
    Maximation Max (@maximationmax) reported

    @Ben_Davison1 Government provides education? Why then are kids paying $40k for an arts degree?. If NBN was a government service rather than a business its expense would be in the budget

  • diss_presso
    Max (@diss_presso) reported

    @BrowntownBrew @robb_j_m But real world demand was lower as no zoom or Netflix. But anyway - it’s moot. The government could buy every Australian household a starlink dish (2.5x faster than NBN) for <$6B - and we’re still not finished, having spent 10x that. The doomed NBN had the absurdist aim of connecting every sleepy country town with top shelf fibre whilst legally enforcing slow internet in our metropolitan centres (the only places where fibre is even economically viable). This is exactly what the libs predicted at the time and were ridiculed for it. How about just connect the high population centres (you know, the ones who actually need the internet for their livelihoods) and let rural people move to the city if they want 1gbps, and then later spent a few billion buying the rest starlink if we really wanted to continue pissing money up the wall (or just letting them buy it themselves, with their own money, if they really wanted it). You aren’t angry enough.

  • TheGurusWife1
    The Guru’s Wife (@TheGurusWife1) reported

    @robb_j_m NBN is unreliable in my area. I have Starlink $139 AUD per month Starlink is the only reliable service here

  • orstraya
    Orstraya (@orstraya) reported

    @eevblog How can an organisation like NBN not have its own HDD crews or a contractor on standby? Why does it need council permits to carry out emergency works when federal law lets telcos basically do what they want?

  • Stoxxie
    David Lee (@Stoxxie) reported

    @Liberty_Itch @DavidLeyonhjelm This is an incredibly poor editorial on the NBN. A waste of my time in reading it

  • General_Ch4t
    GeneralChat |🍍🍌| Charity Donothon 29th-7th (@General_Ch4t) reported

    OF ALL DAYS FOR NBN ISSUES

  • Russputin2
    Russell Drysdale :#IStandWithAlbo (@Russputin2) reported

    @FinancialReview If only Rupert hadn't nobbled Labors' Full Fibre NBN, you'd know that it was the deposed LNP Crime Org, that closed down fuel refining & storage in Australia.

  • TerryCorby57986
    Terry Corby (@TerryCorby57986) reported

    @DaveMcG67 @Ausbobsmit @lauren_vasiliou Like Snowy 2 you mean started by LNP at a cost of $2B now estimated at $42B an LNP project or the NBN which cost us $110B more under Abbott& Turnbull for a far inferior service.Neither the right or left r great project managers.

  • kojrey_codes
    Kojrey (@kojrey_codes) reported

    This is the argument for the #NBN few predicted: 1) Spend lots of money to build a national broadband network. 2) Spend even more money to make it Fibre to the Premises (FTTP) by default. 3) Private competitor pops up and offers comparable service, in more geographies, with zero Australian govt money. ....But where some are now (4a) Private competitor drives out public investment (4b) Private competitor CEO becomes hyper-partisan & divisive AND THEN (4c) They decide to use almost-monopoly power to hold citizens hostage with price increases. Kevin07 may have saved us, even if he didn't know it at the time.

  • mrr78504
    MR Reilly (@mrr78504) reported

    @econoadabsurdam @LeeRespecter The NBN might plausibly have increased productivity if it had retained its original scope (A FTTN fibre backbone network independent of Telstra that would allow telecommunication companies to compete on an equal footing). Instead it got rolled out first in Tasmania.

  • Paradoxa18
    Paradoxa (@Paradoxa18) reported

    @robb_j_m live beyond NBN only about 150k from Melbourne had dial up originally then adsl2 but no home net for years despite paying for access now only mobilenet & my phone one of many network blocked that was January when irl the roadside letterbox disappeared #offline

  • ArealHughes
    Tony Hughes (@ArealHughes) reported

    @AlanBixter Our communications infrastructure system is not good enough. After the Turnbull NBN debacle and massive cost blowouts we still have inferior IT infrastructure. My internet is slow but works OK, however ph reception is woeful and I'm 40'ks from the coast of seventh largest city.

  • Protenpinner
    Clifford Stewart (@Protenpinner) reported

    @RositaDaz48 Yep, he's single handedly the country's worst ever PM & we literally have had one go missing, one go on holidays when the nation was on fire & one sell out the future of the nation by giving backdoor deals to his mate (Turnbull with the NBN).

  • JarOfSteve
    Steve (@JarOfSteve) reported

    @algorithmsayshi Tried clearing app cache ? Could be using CGNAT as well. Getting a static IP from ISP could fix the issue. Also, you could try turning off the NBN box for twenty minutes to see if you can pick up a new IP that's not flagged.