WOW! Internet investigating ‘global outage’ affecting customers across nation - KXAN.com

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by: Nathaniel Rodriguez, Jeremy Tanner, Nexstar Media Wire

Posted: Nov 15, 2022 / 12:48 PM CST

Updated: Nov 15, 2022 / 12:52 PM CST

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — WOW! Internet customers crossed the state reported outage problems Tuesday afternoon.

“Our squad is investigating a planetary outage that is impacting customers crossed WOW! markets, http://wowway.com, and our lawsuit attraction centers,” the institution tweeted astir 1 p.m. EST. “We admit your patience and volition supply updates arsenic much accusation becomes available.”

At astir 12:23 p.m., astir 30,000 outages were reported connected Downdetector.com, though it went down to astir 24,000 astatine 12:38 p.m.

At 12:54 p.m., 4,304 outages were reported successful Tampa. Other heavy impacted areas included Detroit, Atlanta, and Birmingham — though Downdetector’s representation shows that the outages are focused successful the Detroit country with 5,500 outages reported.

WOW! Internet’s website besides appeared to beryllium non-functional, with a “502 Bad Gateway” appearing instead.

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