{"id":38853,"date":"2012-06-01T15:01:14","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T13:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=38853"},"modified":"2012-06-01T15:02:38","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T13:02:38","slug":"widespread-adsl-downtime-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/38853-widespread-adsl-downtime-explained","title":{"rendered":"Widespread ADSL downtime explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A widespread ADSL outage in the greater Pretoria and greater Nelspruit areas meant that Telkom ADSL services may have been inaccessible in these areas.<\/p>\n<p>MWEB told its subscribers at around 14:00 that it \u201chas been notified of a widespread ADSL outage affecting the greater Pretoria and greater Nelspruit areas\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Numerous neighborhoods had been hit by this outage, including Erasmusrand, Moreleta Park, Waterkloof, Bronberg, Komatiepoort, Lydenburg, Faerie Glen, Witrivier, Willows, Tygervalley, Nelspruit, Zwavelpoort, Lynnwood Glen, Middelburg, Woodhill, Witbank and Silverton.<\/p>\n<p>Telkom has confirmed the problem, explaining that it was caused by a municipal power outage. According to Telkom, power is restored and ADSL services should be up and running again.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Telkom ADSL speed upgrades on track\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/adsl\/51253-telkom-adsl-speed-upgrades-on-track.html\"><strong>Telkom ADSL speed upgrades on track<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"40Mbps DSL network back on track\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/50827-40mbps-dsl-network-back-on-track.html\"><strong>40Mbps DSL network back on track<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/8585\/telkom-upgrades-broadband-speed-and-infrastructure\/\"><strong>1Gbps Telkom VDSL and FTTH infrastructure roll-outs begin<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Flat ADSL access fee not discussed: Telkom\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/adsl\/50043-flat-adsl-access-fee-not-an-option-telkom.html\"><strong>Flat ADSL access fee not discussed: Telkom<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A widespread ADSL outage affected the greater Pretoria and greater Nelspruit areas<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":26813,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,293,4672,217,287],"class_list":["post-38853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-adsl","tag-adsl-downtime","tag-mweb","tag-telkom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38854,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38853\/revisions\/38854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}