ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — Orange County Public Schools is reporting that an internet outage that affected computers across the school district has been fixed.
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The district said the outage was due to a national outage with its provider
Internet service has been restored districtwide. OCPS was impacted by a national outage by our provider but everything should be operational at this time. Thank you for your patience.
Posted by Orange County Public Schools on Thursday, September 17, 2020
Internet service district wide was restored just after 1 p.m.
Earlier today OCPS warned students and staff they “may have intermittent internet until it is fully operational again.”
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OCPS is being impacted by a national internet outage by our provider. Students and staff may have intermittent internet until it is fully operational again. We will post an update when we learn more from our provider.
— ocpsnews (@OCPSnews) September 17, 2020
According to AT&T, the district’s internet provider, the problem was caused while the company was in the process of planned maintenance.
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