Orcon Internet: Historical System Status Issues

Orcon+ Network Stability Issue
2008-03-01 - 2008-03-14: There were a small number of customers on the Orcon+ network experiencing intermittent outages in their broadband and/or phone service. A software patch was deployed over the weekend (13/14 April) which has resolved these issues.

International Traffic
2008-02-23 08:00 - 2008-02-25 17:00: We were experiencing degraded service affecting international traffic to the USA. Symptoms included higher than normal latency or slow traffic to US links. Our vendor has now advised that this has been resolved, and they are monitoring it closely.

Email Outage
2008-02-15 08:30 - 2008-02-15 14:00: We had an intermittent email issue which affected all email servers. This fault is now resolved.

Email Outage
2008-02-07 08:30 - 2008-02-08 17:00: We had an intermittent email issue which affected all email servers. This fault is now resolved.

Email Outage for Orcon Internet

As I go to press, Orcon are currently experiencing an email outage. First hand reports indicate that this problem has been ongoing for a significant portion of today. The issue is still not currently resolved.

Below is a copy of the notification on the Orcon Internet System Status page.

Mail Outage

We are currently experiencing intermittent mail outage with e-mail authentication. Our technicians are currently on-site and a resolution is expected as soon as possible.

Hot tip: Many common broadband issues can be solved by restarting your broadband modem/router.


Authentication issues are such a beast. The system will happily report to you that your login credentials are wrong when it is up the crapper.

Orcon's Webmail portal seems to be working now and then when you arn't getting the error in the screen capture below. However it looks like POP and IMAP are dead in the water.


I absolutely love the "Hot tip" at the bottom of the post! I hate outages, and I have so wanted to sign-up for TVNZondemand today.

I'm betting on another power failure on the North Shore.

Source: Orcon Internet - System Status