NBN outages and service status in Forster, New South Wales

Problems in the last 24 hours in Forster, New South Wales

The chart below shows the number of NBN reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Forster, New South Wales 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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  Evans Electric (@tsport100) reported 7 minutes ago

  A guy moved into a new apartment. Only “official” internet was FTTN NBN — $90/month for a pathetic 30 Mbps down max. He called Telstra and Optus. Both said “5G Fixed Wireless not available at your address.” He checked a cell tower map anyway. Half a dozen towers within a couple km. Bought a GL.iNet GL-X3000NR 5G router + built a DIY 4x4 MIMO LPDA external antenna. Result? 800 Mbps download / 170 Mbps upload. 25x faster. $75/month. Same building. Here’s exactly how he did it 🧵

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  Not for you (@bcg1976) reported 10 minutes ago

  @BilsonhBilson The public can buy it if they want. It's a public company. I wouldn't with starlink cellular about tk come online. Just like I wouldn't have bought it's copper network off it for the NBN. How has that public turkey worked out?

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  Thomas (@RedoubtOfThomas) reported 10 minutes ago

  @lowlandsapien Never forget the NBN rollout either.

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  cockitythegalah (@jlmcmlxvii) reported 16 minutes ago

  @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.

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  Jamie (@jamieeedward) reported 17 minutes ago

  @Rizzabeast I had a disgusting phone interaction with outsourced staff in the Optus Nbn install team, the first issue was a computer error, which I understood but asked to escalate to a supervisor, this guy had no customer service skills, talking over me, i asked to talk to his supervisor

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  Kevin Metcalfe (@KevinMe49077436) reported 18 minutes ago

  @TheLucidyn @Batman2242 No, it was a very bad idea, the original OPAL idea was excellent, a public private partnership to lift rural speeds up to that of the cities and was costed at about $4 billion. Rudd screwed that up with massive mission creep and created the NBN.

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  Spider Mother Gwen (@GwenMotherS) reported 18 minutes ago

  @ClioAite Could be a nbn formating issue call ur provider and check something hasnt gone sideways with ur modems formatting or connection to the wider nbn network

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  Raymond McKeown (@RaymondKeown3) reported 20 minutes ago

  It is grand final day for that very failed ex labor fool Pommie Stephen Conroy. At his presser he is lying his arse off. It is time @SkyNewsAust must dump this labor liar Conroy. Remember when he was the minister for the NBN his budget was $8.4 billion and a build time of 8 years Pommie Conroy is just another labor fail Enough @SkyNewsAust We do pay subscriptions to you Show us some respect!

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  IAN KIRKWOOD (@ianattheherald) reported 22 minutes ago

  @strangerous10 @AlanJMitchell_ Yep. And Canberra complaining about the privatised Telstra is like me selling someone a second-hand car and hitching about what the new owners did with it. I’m serious. And we should surely have enough computing power to know now how the sharemarket dabbling went for those “battlers” who bought Telstra shares as encouraged by the privatising PM John Howard. After taxes, accountants, inflation, fees & Telstra’s bad (or deliberate?) policy choices around the National Broadband Network, my guess would be: not that well. And speaking of the NBN, remember the smart nodding and talking heads saying we wouldn’t need this much capacity etc. Be a few archived interviews from that era that will not have aged well. The same equation repeats throughout history. 1. “This is ridiculous” 2. “It has some uses” 3. “We’ve always supported this! What are you talking about.” Progress moves by the death of generations, as much as by technology. My parents hated ATMs. Didn’t trust them. I don’t trust the thing I’m writing this on. Children now will one day look back on such antiquated things as hand-held devices and “wonder how people used something so clumsy”. Etc

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  Gregory Briscoe-Hough (@GBH0100) reported 23 minutes ago

  @samstrades But he did deliver the NBN ( no bloody network) so well too!