All systems are operational

Past Incidents

17th April 2021

No incidents reported

16th April 2021

Unplanned Power Outage

Lightwire has been informed of an outage to mains power supplying our Waotu transmission site. While our site has backup battery power there is a chance that in the event of an extended outage or factors outside of Lightwire's control you may lose your connection. The power company's current ETR is slated for 6pm tomorrow (17/04) With this, we expect the site may go offline overnight. Please feel free to contact us on 0800 12 13 14 if you have any queries.

15th April 2021

Unplanned Incident - Trans Tasman fault

There was a fault with our Primary Trans Tasman connectivity. This resaulted in degretagion of services based out of Australia for a few minutes. The Lightwire network automatically failed over on primary failure, but there was congestion on the secondary path, which Lightwire Engineers had to manually resolve. Services are running at normal service levels on the backup path to Australia.Will update again when Primary path is active again.

14th April 2021

Unplanned Outage - Barker - Degraded Service Warning

Lightwire Engineers are currently investigating a possible fault at our Barker transmission site that may be causing an outage to your connection. We will be working hard to get you back on line as soon as we can! Please feel free to contact us on 0800 12 13 14 if you have any queries.

Degraded Service - Minden

Lightwire has been made aware of an on-going issue with the Minden transmission site.  This may result in lower speed/performance as our network uses back up paths. We will be working hard to get you back on that great Lightwire connection as soon as we can! Please feel free to contact us on 0800 12 13 14 if you have any queries.

Unplanned Power Outage

Lightwire has been informed of an outage to mains power supplying our Waikoha transmission site. While our site has backup battery power there is a chance that in the event of an extended outage or factors outside of Lightwire's control you may lose your connection. We will be working hard to get you back on line as soon as we can! Please feel free to contact us on 0800 12 13 14 if you have any queries

13th April 2021

Extended Outage - Te Pahu School

Due to an unplanned incident during a planned migration, the Te Pahu School (TPH) transmission site may be experiencing a loss of service.Lightwire technicians are working on this at this time.  We thank you for your patience.

12th April 2021

No incidents reported

11th April 2021

No incidents reported

10th April 2021

Maramarua School - Mains Power Outage

Lightwire has been informed of a mains power outage affecting our Maramarua School transmission site. Whilst our site does have a battery backup it is likely that if the outage is not resolved by tonight the site will likely offline forcing all affected customer's traffic to be routed via redundant paths. This may cause the speed of your service to be degraded until the power outage is resolved.