BigPond cable and ADSL customers who weren't already logged into the provider's authentication server were blocked out of their "always on" Internet connections last night from 6:05pm AEDT, with the culprit being a faulty power supply in one of Telstra's exchanges in the Sydney CBD.
BigPond is yet to provide a full explanation as to why its broadband customers infected with the Sasser virus are experiencing difficulties connecting to its service.
Telstra may pay a rebate to ADSL customers affected by a major outage on Wednesday evening, and will soon introduce a service level guarantee for cable customers following unstable network performance this year.
Telstra have concluded that a manual solution is the best way to fix the problems faced by more than 1,300 broadband users.
Telstra has blamed ADSL outages experienced by its NSW customers on Monday and again this morning, on server-end technical faults, refuting speculation that its ADSL network can't withstand wet-weather conditions
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