NBN outages and service status in Smithton, Tasmania

Problems in the last 24 hours in Smithton, Tasmania

The chart below shows the number of NBN reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Smithton, Tasmania and surrounding areas. An outage is declared when the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line.

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NBN Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Michael Grant (@Amunous) reported 4 minutes ago

  @real_joshkent @VoteLewko @Starlink What nbn are you on? There are many different versions so you can’t just say nbn is bad across the board.

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  TassieDevyl (@TasDevyl) reported 5 minutes ago

  @ArtistAffame That's not bad. The only option I have where I am is Fixed Wireless. Essentially 4G/5G cell tower and fixed "antenna" on the roof. NBN service via iinet (TPG). Given the distance from the tower I only get a portion of the theoretical maximum throughput. Costs more than your plan.

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  Pete (@Travellingtooks) reported 6 minutes ago

  @ArkinBarkin @Ryandally08 They hire their mates, ex Labor poles, retired bureaucrats as consultants eg NBN, NDIS, Telstra, etc costs and salaries go up while service fails.

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  The Immaculate Deception (@DeceptionImmac) reported 8 minutes ago

  @QuentinDempster Good to see you're finally admitting that the NBN was a badly thought out brain fart from day one. And the Gumbyment needed someone like Elon to demonstrate to them the proper way to provide such a service over vast distqances. Good to know.

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  Warwick Brown / CEO of HTMX (same thing) (@WarkickBrown) reported 12 minutes ago

  @eddit0r @OperationalInc1 Hey wait, if I live in an estate/apartment building that has non-NBN fibre and Telstra don't sell services on it, and I call them to order my USO-guaranteed home phone service and they say no, can I sue them?

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  FarCue (@FarCueCunce) reported 14 minutes ago

  Just had the Indian "tradie" experience. Our ISP offered free connection to the NBN fibre network so they sent out the installer. Long story short, I rejected his ludicrous proposal to destroy my concrete slab driveway so they could run the shortest cheapest route of cables.

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  mutantmonkeybutt (@60YOGamer) reported 14 minutes ago

  @PaulBongiorno Try living in rural Vic and getting an Australian made fixed satellite NBN service. Up until Starlink our snowfields resembled dial-up and we could not watch a streaming service without the loading circle popping up every minute or two.

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  VersionNaught (@nathan_knows) reported 16 minutes ago

  @strangerous10 A lot of people forget the NBN was in part to shift the fixed broadband service monopoly from Telstra.

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  Simon Biddle (@simonbiddle) reported 16 minutes ago

  @taipan168 Many corporatised, but publicly owned, entities provide great service. NBN is pretty good for example. Even Australia Post isn’t bad. Govt doesn’t have to equal bad and is much more preferable in monopoly and quasi-monopoly environments.

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  Deevitha (@Deevitha_) reported 18 minutes ago

  Finally bit the bullet and got Starlink installed. Highly impressed, the speed and stability runs everything beautifully. We haven’t had a single circle of death anywhere. No more dealing with the shortfalls of NBN lines, poor workmanship and dodgy patchwork repairs. In our exit survey from the old company I let them know the reason for leaving was the poor service the NBN infrastructure can provide, and now that customers have another choice we aren’t limited by the failing system. Highly recommend the switch if you have been considering it.