{"id":793,"date":"2025-07-17T16:16:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T16:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/793\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T16:16:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T16:16:13","slug":"1100-wightfibre-customers-experience-internet-outage-due-to-equipment-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/793\/","title":{"rendered":"1,100 WightFibre customers experience Internet outage due to equipment failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Customers of <a href=\"https:\/\/onthewight.com\/about\/wightfibre\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WightFibre<\/a> in Ventnor, Godshill and Wroxall were without an Internet connection this morning (Thursday) for more than an hour.<\/p>\n<p>WightFibre say the fault was caused by a \u201cfaulty uninterruptible power supply unit in the Ventnor exchange\u201d. This was replaced and service to affected customers is now restored.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When OnTheWight asked how many customers were affected, a spokesperson for WightFibre replied,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are only 1,100 customers connected on that exchange, so very little compared to the nearly 26,000 total customers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The loss of service caused quite an impact for customers such as <a href=\"https:\/\/onthewight.com\/about\/ventnor-exchange\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ventnor Exchange<\/a>, who are in the process of organising the ten-day <a href=\"https:\/\/onthewight.com\/about\/ventnor-fringe-festival\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ventnor Fringe Festival<\/a> that starts tomorrow (Friday), as well as businesses who rely on their fibre connection for taking card payments. <\/p>\n<p>The WightFibre spokesperson went on to say,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was also identified and restored in just over an hour. Most of that time was to take the replacement equipment from Cowes to Ventnor. A very small loss of service caused by equipment out of our control and resolved extremely quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Customers of WightFibre in Ventnor, Godshill and Wroxall were without an Internet connection this morning (Thursday) for more&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[64,63,237,105,1335,1336],"class_list":{"0":"post-793","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","12":"tag-ventnor-exchange","13":"tag-wightfibre"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793","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=793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}