#optus outage

[adreamthatsworthkeeping]

WHY IS YOUR CAT FEEDER CONNECTED TO THE WIFI???

[roleplay-fan]

You know, I'm surprised I never saw Optus trending on here.

I mean, think of all the potential that could've been made it.

Optus, one of the largest network Companies in Australia, suddenly going down with 10 million customers relying on it like it was the last stop of water in the desert. It's freaking out because it lost it's power and no one knows why (my bet is hacked), with other users freaking out about having no internet.

And then there's AO3, who is a veteran. And it's just sitting there in the corner as it's taking a drag of it's cigarette (or Vape pen, I guess) and it tells you how it's been through it's wars (With Tags!)

Like AO3 Tumblr users had the opportunity to take the piss out of Optus and missed it!

[harleysalicent]

every Optus customer today

[reblogalanaartdream]

Being as I have Telstra as my mobile/ internet 🛜 I had no idea half of Australia’s internet 🛜 was down until guy who use to host giggle & hoots show did a skit about it on TikTok before the news could tell me about it

[ash-wolf-runner]

Just got lots of extra internet data to use to make up for the long outage that happened the other day.

Gonna go watch YouTube videos with no headphones on public transport so I can share it :)

[aressida]

[ibeattheinternet]

Who would've thought Vodafail could be looked back with nostalgia

[dietauben]

Australian internet has finally lived up to its name

[sparkyblizz]

I'm with Optus lol, this fucked me up when it happened

If you're in Australia you'll already know this, but for our international readers, basically the whole of Australia ground to a halt today because one of our two mobile/internet networks - Optus - just completely shat its dacks for about 9 hours, taking out the country's phones, internet and banking.

The funniest part though, is that apparently when the national broadcaster tried to reach out to find out what was going on - they discovered the quite forseeable problem that everyone at Optus used Optus for their phone and internet, so there was basically no way for their company to contact anyone inside or outside the company to work out what was going on or to try and fix it.

What a country.

[nando161mando]

Optus CEO admits more than 200 triple zero calls couldn't be made during...

[witch-of-western-australia]

Optus: *major nationwide outage*

Telstra, probably:

[kholden83]

One of Australia's three mobile service providers is down. The one I'm with, so I haven't had a phone for 8 hours now. Thankfully I have my wifi with a different company, so I still have internet. Because all their services are offline. Even their website was down when I tried to check it.

[loopingpyre]

So one of Australia's ISPs is going through an insane blackout, all phone lines and internet connections are just gone.

The current Optus blackout is affecting banks, hospitals and fire warning services across the country.

This is nuts.

Here's some coverage.

I didn't get on here until 20 minutes ago because I'm borrowing someone else's Telstra connection.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Did you suffer through optus's outage? If you were asleep it lasted from 4:00 am to about 2:00 pm sydney time and people with landlines coulnt make calls at all while mobile were emergancy only. Obvi this fuck up emergancy services, transport and business. No internet either

We had it but its only effect on me personally was my mum showing up at my house with four enormous plastic tanks to cut into raised garden beds and taking me by surprise 6 minutes before Call of Cthulhu started (because she couldn't text me in advance) so we couldn't do it right then, so now I have a trailer full of plastic tanks parked extremely precariously on a very steep slope directly next to the corner of my house poised to crash right into the power supply thingy and corner of a bedroom at the slightest slipup

My internet worked fine

[catkin-morgs-kookaburralover]

kisses to all the people affected by the optus outage today

like the commuters who are going into work because the internet isn't working and the outage is affecting trains