{"id":1531,"date":"2021-05-18T02:47:14","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T00:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/18\/nbn-to-replace-10000-modems-after-lightning-fries-devices-across-blue-mountains\/"},"modified":"2021-05-18T02:47:14","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T00:47:14","slug":"nbn-to-replace-10000-modems-after-lightning-fries-devices-across-blue-mountains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/18\/nbn-to-replace-10000-modems-after-lightning-fries-devices-across-blue-mountains\/","title":{"rendered":"NBN to replace 10,000 modems after lightning \u2018fries\u2019 devices across Blue Mountains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One family said blue sparks were flying from their modem as electrical storms wreaked havoc on fibre-to-the-curb distribution boxes<\/p>\n<p>NBN Co will be forced to replace 10,000 faulty broadband devices in homes across the Blue Mountains west of Sydney after residents reported the technology was frequently struck by lightning and in one instance led to blue sparks flying out of a modem in a family\u2019s home.<\/p>\n<p>Around 20,000 of the over 32,000 homes in the Blue Mountains and Emu Plains have been connected to the national broadband network via fibre-to-the-curb (FttC) technology, which was set up under the Coalition government\u2019s multi-technology mixed model.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/may\/18\/nbn-to-replace-10000-modems-after-lightning-fries-devices-across-blue-mountains\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/f723a626107ae7ec1eb600bbf675d3dc38daf8aa\/0_492_1500_900\/master\/1500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=ee80b946b82611fd08e8b2ba6d62e075\" title=\"NBN to replace 10,000 modems after lightning \u2018fries\u2019 devices across Blue Mountains\" \/>One family said blue sparks were flying from their modem as electrical storms wreaked havoc on fibre-to-the-curb distribution boxes<br \/>\nNBN Co will be forced to replace 10,000 faulty broadband devices in homes across the Blue Mountains west of Sydney after residents reported the technology was frequently struck by lightning and in one instance led to blue sparks flying out of a modem in a family\u2019s home.<br \/>\nAround 20,000 of the over 32,000 homes in the Blue Mountains and Emu Plains have been connected to the national broadband network via fibre-to-the-curb (FttC) technology, which was set up under the Coalition government\u2019s multi-technology mixed model. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One family said blue sparks were flying from their modem as electrical storms wreaked havoc on fibre-to-the-curb distribution boxes NBN Co will be forced to replace 10,000 faulty broadband devices in homes across the Blue Mountains west of Sydney after residents reported the technology was frequently struck by lightning and in one instance led to &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/18\/nbn-to-replace-10000-modems-after-lightning-fries-devices-across-blue-mountains\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NBN to replace 10,000 modems after lightning \u2018fries\u2019 devices across Blue Mountains<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}