Yay for cable :D My sky through Telstra cable still works. And they've just upgraded my cable internet from 4 to 10 GB for free!
Richard
· 3 years ago
Are you sure this isn't a 'Sky in the pie' auction?
John
· 3 years ago
The NZ spokesman for Sky declared on Thursday night that it was due to the eclipse - the story seemigly being that during the repositionong, the solar panels were unable to charge the batteries. Even he didn't sound convinced or convincing.
He also spoke of the back-up plan, though oddly it never seemed to get kicked into motion.
On Friday a different spokesman painted a more plausible picture of the mechanics of satellite repositioning, and studiously avoided blaming the eclipse directly, although there was an oblique reference when he spoke of some delay in getting the repositionong going.
Also never mentioned the back-up plan.
14 hours of dead air is unforgiveable.
Ben
· 3 years ago
I'm very, very suspicious too, but then what else explains a 14 hour outage that is recoverable? I would have thought if the backup SCP went tits-up, then it was all over.
I guess maybe a glitch in the SCP that required a reboot? If the primary SCP was online, it would switch to the backup during the reboot, then come back online. With no backup, it might explain the spin and loss of position while the SCP was recovering?
Tahii
· 3 years ago
Actually, that explains it very well. I laughed like hell when they blamed the eclipse - B1 is in the shade for most of its time up there anyway!
Doug
· 3 years ago
Problem: runs microsoft software
JK
· 3 years ago
SkyNZ were definitely not the only ones affected. 4 of the 5 free to air networks in Australia were knocked out during the 13hr outage. Computer glitch during the manouver caused the bird to turn around almost 180 degrees. Optus owe a lot of people a lot of money
Baz
· 3 years ago
So it appears trademe have withdrawn the auction, when will we be seeing it up here Guy?
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UHF ftw :D
He also spoke of the back-up plan, though oddly it never seemed to get kicked into motion.
On Friday a different spokesman painted a more plausible picture of the mechanics of satellite repositioning, and studiously avoided blaming the eclipse directly, although there was an oblique reference when he spoke of some delay in getting the repositionong going.
Also never mentioned the back-up plan.
14 hours of dead air is unforgiveable.
I guess maybe a glitch in the SCP that required a reboot? If the primary SCP was online, it would switch to the backup during the reboot, then come back online. With no backup, it might explain the spin and loss of position while the SCP was recovering?
I've got a slightly newer version (Sunday night) to upload later tonight, but I didn't get a final snapshot this morning unfortunately.
Uploading now.