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Network Status

Good News Section:
NW is now back up and running on the WUG! Thanks to jasweb and all those involved to getting this fixed, and to everyone who donated which has made this possible!

AV has been partially restored! Thanks to Chris and jasweb, alignment is still necessary but users finally are coming back again to the WUG!

Note: Remember that kit costs money, and without donations, PTAWUG can not replace, upgrade or repair broken kit!

RL’s backbones have been replaced, excluding the one to SO which is currently a very high priority. The sectors are still down but we are working with the property owner to be able to see what we can do!

Bad News Section:
North<>South are now separated due to Basden (BD) having to be decommissioned.

SO badly requires backbone links being fixed on the other side of the backbone link from SO. Examples are WD, RL, EG and more. SO is very important to PTAWUG and carries a LOT of traffic through! Let’s keep it running.

The only links between the North<>South is via TN*.

If anybody, whether you’re a WUG user or just a person reading here if you have a line of sight between the north and south, or to the Unitas Hospital, please contact [email protected] or [email protected] directly.

RL (Raslouw) needs some serious maintenance and repairs, and we will be needing a LOT of donations and man-hours to handle the work. No matter what you’re good at, we will definitely appreciate any and all help.

*TN, also referred to as Teraco Network, is where we use our own personal internet and tunnel the WUG traffic to a central server kindly provided by JAWUG, and it is currently fully at capacity on the side of TN nodes – meaning that more highsites are needed to be connected so that traffic can be distributed easily. If there are any highsite owners with fibre >= 10mbit/s please contact shock, silver or any other PTAWUG staff.

Any notice to be added here should be sent to [email protected] who will add it.