Valley Wireless - Power Failure At Tower Location – Incident details

Secondary Upstream Fibre (Johnsonville) under maintenance

Power Failure At Tower Location

Resolved
Major outage
Started about 1 year agoLasted 4 days

Affected

Primary Upstream Fibre (Churton Park)

Major outage from 8:23 PM to 5:19 AM, Partial outage from 5:19 AM to 8:22 PM, Major outage from 8:22 PM to 5:26 AM, Operational from 5:26 AM to 8:58 PM

Secondary Upstream Fibre (Johnsonville)

Major outage from 8:23 PM to 5:19 AM, Partial outage from 5:19 AM to 8:22 PM, Major outage from 8:22 PM to 5:26 AM, Operational from 5:26 AM to 8:58 PM

DNS Services

Major outage from 8:23 PM to 5:19 AM, Partial outage from 5:19 AM to 8:22 PM, Major outage from 8:22 PM to 5:26 AM, Operational from 5:26 AM to 8:58 PM

Facebook Page

Operational from 8:23 PM to 8:58 PM

VOIP Services

Major outage from 8:23 PM to 5:19 AM, Partial outage from 5:19 AM to 8:22 PM, Major outage from 8:22 PM to 5:26 AM, Operational from 5:26 AM to 8:58 PM

Updates
  • Resolved
    UTC
    Resolved

    This incident has been resolved. No further issues since replacing affected parts.

  • Update
    UTC
    Update

    Sadly we are still having some frustrating issues at Tower 2. We have had to attend the site again and replace a component we suspect is to blame. The system is now up and all customer connections restored. We have also ordered additional parts in case of further problems. Again, apologies for these outages. This issue is troublesome to locate. Will monitor again for 24 hours.

  • Update
    UTC
    Update

    We implemented a fix and are currently monitoring the result. Have fully recharged Tower 2 batteries offsite and completed some wiring issues. We are hopeful that this has restored service to normal. Will monitor for the next 24 hours.

  • Update
    UTC
    Update

    Our backup systems have now also failed as of this morning. We will try and restore service by 11am. Thanks for your patience. This is affecting 50% of our customers.

  • Monitoring
    UTC
    Monitoring

    We implemented a fix and are currently monitoring the result. Unfortunately we have discovered a second power issue at our tower location, which knocked out the internet again between 3pm and 4pm (while we were driving out to a different site). We have since resolved this. We are hopeful this latest fix will stay up overnight and we will do some more repair work tomorrow morning - there will be a brief outage for a few minutes when we power back up in the morning. If the internet is down for longer than say 15 minutes then please get in touch. Our efforts were further hampered by our repair vehicle breaking down this afternoon.

  • Identified
    UTC
    Identified

    Due to the appalling lack of sunshine for the past 7 days, we have run out of power at Tower 2 so parts of our network are currently down. We will be deploying an emergency solution this morning. Thanks for your understanding.