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Orange County Public Schools reports internet restored after district wide outage

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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According to AT&T, the district’s internet provider, the problem was caused while the company was in the process of planned maintenance.

Katlyn Brieskorn, WFTV.com

Katlyn Brieskorn is a Digital Assignment Editor at WFTV. She joined Channel 9 in July 2019.

Matt Reeser

Matt Reeser, WFTV.com

Matt Reeser joined WFTV in 1998 as a news photographer and has worked for television stations in Kentucky and West Virginia.