{"id":165544,"date":"2025-09-24T10:06:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T10:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/165544\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T10:06:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T10:06:14","slug":"family-at-wits-end-over-extended-broadband-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/165544\/","title":{"rendered":"Family at &#8216;wits&#8217; end&#8217; over extended broadband outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When Mr Rains first reported the fault he said he was told by his provider Sky it would take up to two weeks to fix. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We were quite okay with that at the time because we were going away for a fortnight&#8230; but when we came back after two weeks it was still not fixed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We were then told another week but it was still not sorted. We&#8217;re now nearly nine weeks in and it&#8217;s still not fixed,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The dad-of-two said he was also concerned about the impact the outage was having on his children&#8217;s education.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;My son who&#8217;s 11 has just started at secondary school. He can&#8217;t do any online learning because doing it on his mobile by mobile data isn&#8217;t suitable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;My daughter, who&#8217;s at Joseph Wright College studying art can&#8217;t print anything off on the printer because of the Wi-fi and she can&#8217;t download stuff because there&#8217;s no broadband, so I&#8217;m angry,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Mr Rains first reported the fault he said he was told by his provider Sky it would&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[64,63,237,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-165544","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-internet","11":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}