The Honolulu Advertiser and three other local businesses were without Internet access for about two hours today due to an equipment issue emanating from service provider Hawaiian Telcom.

Ann Nishida-Fry, Hawaiian Telcom spokeswoman, said the outage lasted from about 11:45 a.m. to 1:50 p.m. She said all four businesses were connected to the same router that experienced a malfunctioning ethernet card.

The Advertiser's Web site was operating throughout the period, although breaking news updates were more sporadic than usual as newsroom staff used only a few laptops to connect.

In an unrelated incident, electricity was out at the Chaminade University-St. Louis School campus in Kaimuki from about 12 to 1:30 p.m. Chaminade spokeswoman Kapono Ryan said the source of the outage was a mongoose that had gotten into a transformer box.