Affecting Other - Fibre
Fibre down in Wilderness Area, Engineers are attending to the problem, no ETR yet.
Affecting Other - Fibre
Good afternoon,
Openserve notified us of a fibre break affecting user in the Wilderness Area, Engineers are currently working on restoring services as soon as possible, we are now on secondary fibre.
We sincerely apologise for the inconvenience caused.
SCWISP Support
Affecting Other - Fibre
Openserve notified us of an outage affecting some users in George, Mossel bay and Knysna.
Engineers are currently working on restoring services as soon as possible.
We sincerely apologise for the inconvenience caused.
Affecting Other - Fibre
Good afternoon,
Openserve notified us of a fibre break affecting user in the George Area, Engineers are currently working on restoring services as soon as possible.
We sincerely apologise for the inconvenience caused.
SCWISP Support
Affecting Other - Towers
Good morning
We are experiencing a router board problem that is not working, we did send techs to investigate
We do apologise for the downtime.
SCWISP - Support
Affecting Other - Towers
SCWISP techs will be upgrading 2 of our existing network backbone links in the Wilderness Area on Thursday 22-08-2024.
Planned upgrades can take up to 4 hours, so internet will be slower during this time.
We need to conduct some routine maintenance and upgrades on our network and services from time to time.
After upgrades we can deliver higher data processing and faster internet speeds also provide intelligent application services to optimize voice and video calls, as well as gaming and streaming experience.
Thank you for your patience during this time.
Affecting Other - Tower upgrade
We plan to perform a network upgrade in the Wilderness / Rondevlei are. This upgrade will add more capacity to our backhaul links.
Some users will experience intermittent / no internet during this upgrade
For more information contact our support team via whatsapp
Tower Support: (073) 071-9744
Customer Support: (068) 585-7618
Affecting Other - Towers
Officials are still addressing various power outages and fallen trees today, Friday 12 July.
Power outages
Parts of George are experiencing power outages in different areas due to the bad weather conditions. Electrical teams are dispatched to various areas.
*Fairy Knowe power line from Ebb and Flow is off. (repairs to continue this morning)
*Farmlands in Geelhoutboom are to be switched off for repair work. ETR is 3 hours.
*Portion of Denneoord (St. Pauls, Wellington, 9th Avenue, 10th Avenue). (repairs to continue this morning)
*Power outage at George Street, Blanco. (Power outage at Boekenhout Street, Hoekwil. (repairs to continue this morning)
*Power outage in Saasveld. (biggest portion restored – Nelson Mandela University still down)
*Power outages in Wilderness and Kleinkrantz are due to an Eskom trip. Four lines have fallen to the ground and all the lines have to be replaced.
The repairs work will continue this morning.
Affecting Other - Towers
Good morning,
Thursday 11 July 2024 @ 00h30 George Municipality confirms that the entire Geelhoutboom and surroundings currently has no power. Due to strong winds, infrastructures got damaged, the municipality are busy repairing, and we have no ETR as of yet.
As you know our batteries are designed to last 8 hours, with no power or charging, we do apologize for the inconvenience.
Affecting Other - Fibre
Mosselbaai Fibre
There is an outage affecting users in the Mosselbaai Area. Engineers are currently working on restoring the fibre as soon as possible.
We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience caused.
Affecting Other - Towers
Aasvoelberg
Power outage due to depleted batteries, batteries don't charge fully with 6 days of no sun, affecting users in Albertinia and surrounding areas. Working on restoring power as soon as possible.
We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience caused.
Affecting Other - Fibre
Octotel has advised us of an network outage affecting users on the below aggregation nodes:
- Plettenberg Bay
- Knysna
- George
- Sedgefield
- Kleinbrak
Engineers are currently investigating and working on restoring the service as soon as possible.
We apologise for the inconvenience caused.
Affecting Other - Fibre
We are aware of ongoing international connectivity issues possibly due to an undersea cable break.
The outage is currently affecting multiple services including but not limited to:
*Microsoft
*Netflix
Seacom are actively engaging with our upstream providers..
Affecting Other - Fibre
Engineers will be performing maintenance. The purpose of the maintenance is to maintain the network's resilience, ensuring consistent and reliable connectivity.
Please see date and time below:
Date: Tues, 11 - 12 March 2024
Start time: 09:00am 11 March - 05:00am 12 March
Please note that customers may have intermittent to no connectivity during the maintenance window.
We apologize for any inconvenience caused and thank you for your patience during this time.
Affecting Other - Fibre
Outage ID: 88795
Date: 2024-03-10 06:04:15
Status: open
Outage: A Fibre outage is affecting Frogfoot customers in the following areas: - Mossel Bay/Mossel Bay/Heiderand.
Logged : 2024-03-10T06:04:15
Affecting Other - Towers
Last 24 hours: Sun activity is low. The sun produced 11 C flares during the past day (11 UTC yesterday and 11 UTC today).
Solar flares and other space weather events can potentially affect cell phones and computers on Earth,
particularly those that rely on satellite-based technologies such as GPS, satellite communications and wireless equipment.
Affecting Other - Fibre
Good morning,
Eskom says that load shedding will be escalated to stage 6 on Friday to Sunday 12:00, then stage 5 on Sunday from 12:00.
We see schedules of up to 11 hours per day.
SCWISP have upgraded and secured batteries but will struggle, particularly during extended Stage 6 outages, especially our upload providers - Fibre will go down, we will then have to change over manually every time to backup fibre.
That's because most tower batteries require about half a day to fully recharge, which is near impossible when the power cuts off for at least 11 of a day's 24 hours.
Our network has been setup with technology to run on BGP and OSPF so our main core routers work overtime to keep you online.
We will make sure our towers and fibre stay online as far as we can.
Please be patient with us during this time.
Have a great weekend,
SCWISP Support
Affecting Other - Towers
Thembalethu George
Power outage due to depleted batteries, affecting users in some parts of Wilderness, the Thembalethu, Ruigtevlei, Elandskraal and Karatara area. Working on restoring power as soon as possible.
We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience caused.
Affecting Other - Wireless
We have a fibre break at our George 2 Mini PoP
Wireless clients in the following areas will be affected
Geelhout Boom / Blanco area
Rooi Rivier Rif area
No ETA is available yet
Support team
Whatsapp: 068 585-7618
Affecting Other - Fibre
Fibre break in George, we are investigating.
Affecting Other - Fibre and Wireless
Openserve Outage affecting users in the Garden Route area. Some wireless clients will also be affected. Engineers are currently working on restoring services as soon as possible. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience caused.
Affecting Other - PoP's (Fibre)
Theres an issue with our Fibre line that provides internet to the Lakeside PoP. Clients connected to the lakeside tower will have no connection.
We are busy with our upstream provider to resolve this issue
SCWisp Support team
Tel: 068 5857618
Affecting Other - Fibre
Kindly be advised that Openserve is currently experiencing an outage in your area. Engineers are working on restoring services as soon as possible.
We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience caused.
Network Fault ref: 75BEK031023
Affecting Other - Towers
Good morning,
Eskom says that load shedding will be escalated to stage 6 on Friday, as the group has hit a snag with generation capacity.
Stage 6 load shedding will be implemented from 12h00 on Friday until 05h00 on Monday.
We see schedules of up to 11 hours per day.
SCWISP have upgraded and secured batteries but will struggle, particularly during extended Stage 6 outages.
That's because most tower batteries require about half a day to fully recharge,
which is near impossible when the power cuts off for at least 11 of a day's 24 hours.
Our network has been setup with technology to run on BGP and OSPF so our main core routers work overtime to keep you online.
We will make sure our towers stay online as far as we can.
Please be patient with us during this time.
Have a great weekend,
SCWISP Support
Affecting Other - Power
Fibre break down
Openserve notified us of an outage affecting users, all Fibre clients all over Garden Route and clients in the George, Wilderness, Ruigtevlei, Rondevlei and Karatara Area during load shedding. Engineers are currently working on restoring their backup generator as soon as possible.
We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience caused.
Affecting Other - Power
A major outage is currently experienced in the George, Wilderness and some parts of Mosselbay and Sedgefield. We are awaiting feedback from ESKOM and will be sending out an update as soon as we have more info
Affecting Other - Fibre
We will be performing an emergency repair at our Wilderness Fibre Breakout 2023-10-27, between 11:00 and 11:30.
This will affect users in Sedegfield, Rondevlei and Wilderness area.
Users may experience intermittent to no connectivity for 10-20 min during the maintenance period.
We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience caused.
Thank you SCWISP Support
Affecting Other - Towers
We are performing planned backup-power maintenance 2023-10-24 that will affect users in Rondevlei and Sedgefield area.
Users may experience intermittent to no connectivity during the maintenance period. Time of maintenance 08:45-09:20
ETR 35min
Thank you SCWISP Support
Affecting Other - Tower
Fibre degraded service.
We do experience Fibre degraded service affecting users in the Wilderness Area due to Fibre Break. Openserve techs are busy with repairs. ETR 18:00
We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience caused.
Thank you.
Affecting Other - Fibre
Clients in the Mosselbay / George area will experience downtime, engineers are working on restoring services in the affected area.
Update: 16:20 - Most of the services has been restored. If you still experience an issue, contact support
Affecting Other - Fibre
Octotel notified us of a fibre break affecting some users in the Western Cape Area. Engineers are currently working on restoring services as soon as possible. We sincerely apologise for the inconvenience caused.
Affecting Other - Fibre
Our upstream provider in Sedgefield has reported an Issue on there side.
Engineers are currently working on restoring services as soon as possible.
We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience caused.
Affecting Other - Fibre
The West Africa Cable System (WACS) and SAT-3 undersea cables snapped simultaneously on Sunday,
This could impact international traffic to services abroad
NO ETA has been published yet
UPDATE (9 Aug 2023): “The Openserve network remains robust due to our investment in other international cable capacity, hence all Openserve IP Transit services (WebReach) traffic have been automatically re-routed, ensuring our customers stay seamlessly connected.”
UPDATE (6 Sept 2023): As the South Africa landing partner for the WACS and SAT-3 consortiums, which includes other major South African and Global Telecoms businesses, Openserve is pleased that the restoration work on both undersea cables that experienced a break recently is progressing well.
We have been collaborating with the consortium partners to facilitate the restoration of the cables and anticipate the WACS Cable will be restored by 06 September 2023.
Although the impact on Openserve was limited due to our investment in other international cable capacity, we are delighted with the progress made as it aids the restoration of our customers’ latency and redundancy on the WACS cable.
Should you have any questions, please contact your dedicated Business Development Manager.
Affecting Other - Towers
Tower been vandalized, Wilderness, Ruigtevlei, Elandskraal clients will be affected. We are working on the problem.
We do apologize for the inconvenience.
Affecting Other - Towers
Thembalethu George
Fibre outage, affecting users in some parts of Wilderness, the Thembalethu, Ruigtevlei and Elandskraal area. Working on restoring fibre as soon as possible.
We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience caused.
Affecting Other - Fibre
Openserve notified us of a network outage affecting some users in the Wilderness area.
Engineers are currently working on restoring services as soon as possible.
We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience caused.
Affecting Other - Fibre
Openserve notified us of a network outage affecting some users in the George area.
Engineers are currently working on restoring services as soon as possible.
We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience caused.
Affecting Other - Towers
Sentech George
UPDATE: Connections has been restored.
Do not hesitate to contact support on 044-868-0102 / 044-1100-344 if you are not connected
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Strong winds and heavy rains, affecting users in the George Area this morning. Dishes not aligned like it should, no ETA on restore, waiting on storm and strong winds to calm down.
We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience caused.
Affecting Other - Fibre
Fibre degraded service.
We do experience Fibre degraded service affecting users in the Wilderness Area due to Fibre Break. Openserve techs are busy with repairs.
We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience caused.
Thank you.
Affecting Other - Tower - Eskom Issues
New backup batteries will be installed at one of our fibre breakouts, Wilderness, Ruigtevlei, Elandskraal clients will be affected. ETA 2 hours.
We do apologize for the inconvenience.
Affecting Other - Towers
A tree fell down in front of dishes, affecting Karatara, Elandskraal and surrounding area clients.
Techs are currently working on restoring services as soon as possible.
We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience caused.
Affecting Other - Fibre
More backup batteries will be installed at one of our fibre breakouts, Rooirivier, Geelhout and Sentech Clients will be affected, installation will commence during load shedding today at 10:00 - 12:30, downtime will be 10min.
We do apologize for the inconvenience.
Affecting Other - Towers
New backup will be installed today 23-02-2023 at Sentech George, internet will be offline for 10 minutes during this install.
We do apologize for the inconvenience.
Affecting Other - Power
Backup Power malfunction, due to unstable power from Eskom affecting Wilderness users.
Hardware damaged, we did order new stock and repairs will commence tomorrow.
We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience caused.
Affecting Other - Towers
Sentech George
Sentech George notified us of generator problems, affecting users in the George Area during load shedding. They are currently working on restoring their backup generator, waiting on parts. Due to the long period waiting on parts we have decided to install our own backup power 22-02-2023 making sure all connections stay online.
We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience caused.
Affecting Other - Fibre
Openserve notified us of a network outage affecting some users in the George area.
Engineers are currently working on restoring services as soon as possible.
We sincerely apologise for the inconvenience caused.
Affecting Other - Towers
Power Problems, affecting Karatara, Elandskraal and surrounding area clients.
Techs are currently working on restoring services as soon as possible.
We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience caused.
Affecting Other - Fibre
Frogfoot is performing maintenance that will affect some users in the George area.
Users will experience intermittent to no connectivity during the maintenance period.
Affecting Other - Power
Good morning,
Monday 6 February 2023 @ 6h30 George Municipality confirms that the entire Wilderness and surroundings currently has no power, we have rerouted clients over to backup fibre, thank you.
Affecting Other - Towers
Link break, affecting Rondevlei and some Sedegfield Users.
Techs are currently working on restoring services as soon as possible.
We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience caused.
Affecting Other - Fibre
Fibre degraded service.
We do experience fibre degraded service affecting users in the Garden Route Area due to Load Shedding all over SA. We are working on replenishing/servicing the backup systems to improve uptime during load shedding.
We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience caused.
Thank you.
Affecting Other - Towers
York Street George
There is an outage affecting users in the George Area. Engineers are currently working on restoring the access as soon as possible.
We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience caused.
Affecting Other - Fibre
Openserve notified us of a fibre break affecting George and Mosselbay users.
Engineers are currently working on restoring services as soon as possible.
We sincerely apologise for the inconvenience caused.
Affecting Other - Fibre
Openserve Fibre still down - No ETA - we run on backup internet - speeds will be slow
Engineers are currently working on restoring services as soon as possible.
We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience caused.
Affecting Other - Power
Eskom has announced that Stage 6 load-shedding has been implemented throughout South Africa.
“This was necessary due to the failure of 8 generating units overnight and the excessive reliance on OCGTs and pumped storage generation that is rapidly depleting these reserves.”
The power utility said it would provide more details about the situation in “due course.”
Affecting Other - Fibre
Openserve notified us of an outage affecting users in Wilderness Area.
All users are now on backup Fibre, speeds will be slower.
Engineers are currently working on restoring services as soon as possible.
We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience caused.
Affecting Other - Power
Load-shedding is upon us and it looks like it’s here to stay for some time.
If your ADSL, Fixed-LTE, Fibre or Wireless connection is connected to a router and the power goes out, your Internet is gone.
When load-shedding strikes, thousands of clients lose their connections.
When power is restored, your router needs to establish a connection with the network or nearest tower in order to get Internet access again.
It can take a while for towers and exchanges that went down to power back up. If a large area is affected, then everyone will be trying to connect at the same time and will need to wait their turn in the “queue”.
*We do not advise our clients to reset their router after their load shedding cycle has ended*
Once your power has been restored, you may need to allow a few minutes to get back online.
Our batteries generally have a capacity of six to 12 hours, depending on the site category, and require 12 to 18 hours to recharge. The constant outages are starting to have a direct impact on the performance of the batteries. If outages continue, the battery’s integrity is compromised because of insufficient time to recharge and due to the excessive drain on the battery.
Once power is fully depleted, the tower stops working entirely. Depending on the configuration of nearby towers, this may cause customers to experience an intermittent service or an area to black out entirely.
We are trying to keep all our towers up and running and monitor our network with the schedule 6 loadshedding,
Thank you
F Scholtz
Affecting Other - Fibre
Clients on our network may experience increased international latency during peak hours. We are working with our fibre upstream provider to resolve the issue as soon as possible. We apologize for the inconvenience caused.
Fibre down in certain areas, Openserve engineers are attending
Affecting Other - Lines
Fibre down in certain areas of George, Openserve Engineers are attending to the problem
Network Fault in your area affecting the internet and it has been logged with Openserve with a fault ref number NF1BEK271221.
Dear customer,
Please take note of the following notice that may affect you:
Yours Sincerely,
SCWISP support
Affecting System - Fiber breakout
Power issues in George, breakout will be affected, all on backup breakout
Openserve is experiencing an outage in garden route
Openserve experience issues over SA
Facebook and WhatsApp down...in Africa....
We are aware of some Openserve users on our network experiencing connectivity issues. Our Engineers are currently investigating to restore services as soon as possible.