{"id":116890,"date":"2025-05-20T11:03:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T11:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/116890\/"},"modified":"2025-05-20T11:03:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T11:03:08","slug":"widespread-internet-outages-reported-across-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/116890\/","title":{"rendered":"Widespread internet outages reported across New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">A post on the Vic Deals Facebook page asking if anyone had lost internet received 139 comments, with users across Wellington suburbs confirming widespread outages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">One person commented: \u201cSitting round the table for dinner for once cos there isn\u2019t any wifi\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Another said, \u201cAll I want to do is watch some YouTube videos for background noise until I fall asleep\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">On its website, network service provider Devoli said broadband issues were being caused by a route reflector in Sydney.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">This would mean New Zealand local fibre providers that rely on Devoli for their connections could have their services disrupted.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<a class=\"ad__link\" data-test-ui=\"ad__link\" href=\"https:\/\/advertising.nzme.co.nz\/\" data-ad-env=\"both\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Advertise with NZME.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cDue to slow response we have restarted devices in Auckland and Wellington,\u201d Devoli wrote. \u201cInvestigation ongoing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Later, the company wrote that services were progressively being restored while engineers actively monitored the situation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Contact chief retail officer Michael Robertson said the company\u2019s broadband service was now back up and running after a brief and unexpected outage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cWe are working to find out why and how this happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Gorilla Technology chief executive Paul Spain told the Herald outages can be caused by a wide range of issues such as misconfiguration, equipment failure or even cyber attack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cThe resolution will depend ultimately on the cause,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cAppropriately there is redundancy built in to Internet providers networks to reduce the risk of large-scale outages &#8211; and these same redundant mechanisms can also be helpful when there is a significant failure.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Spain said a route reflector was critical equipment that helps networks know the best way for data to get to and from the right place. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cFor instance when you want to stream a movie, your Smart TV, phone or computer needs to connect and retrieve the video data across the internet from an appropriate streaming server.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A post on the Vic Deals Facebook page asking if anyone had lost internet received 139 comments, with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3161],"tags":[15974,10911,7766,3082,9641,52498,52499,14998,53,43982,16,15,52497,9642],"class_list":{"0":"post-116890","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-across","9":"tag-been","10":"tag-have","11":"tag-internet","12":"tag-new","13":"tag-outages","14":"tag-reported","15":"tag-reports","16":"tag-technology","17":"tag-there","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom","20":"tag-widespread","21":"tag-zealand"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114539829851992805","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}