Internet Problems

[nikster]

http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/three-o...hasnt-affected/

Page 1 is full of great jokes on the topic, I am still laughing. The main story on engadget is incorrect but who cares...

Also in the comments can be found... theories about the breakage include: They broke the same place as before, meaning whoever fixed them last time did a crappy job. And a US warship allegedly driving around with a mission to tap underseas wires. Sounds ridiculous but can't be completely ruled out as long as Bush is in charge...

[smartiemarty]

No need for a warship to tap into the cables.... Us military has stakes / access in some of the major terminal stations around the world and can tap into any data / voice passing through their system....

[khundon]

Still getting 5657 Kbps download and 235Kbps upload with latency @ 827ms to Singapore, not tried Thailand yet. Skyp ok

[mrbojangles]

From Saudi there’s no noticeable difference in the internet today or yesterday.

For me in Saudi, Dial up as been bad today but my Mobily Dongle thingy with a Sim card is working fine. I also can't call the UK at the moment, using the landline.

Edited December 20, 2008 by mrbojangles

[Farma]

mrbojangles the net slowed down for me a couple of hours ago, coming good now. Mobily is working fine with UK websites opening fast after I stopped onspeed. Skype to Thailand was good up until a few minutes ago. Now the mrs can’t connect to the net in Thailand.

Edited December 20, 2008 by Farma

[Mobi]

IPStar - Loxinfo has been working fine all day.

Current speeds: DL: 429 UL: 56.

No problem connecting with UK sites and Skype.

[MaxLee]

Right now I cannot get access to nba.com or the NBA section of ESPN... for ESPN it tells me

Service Unavailable - DNS failure

The server is temporarily unable to service your request. Please try again later.

Reference #11.a28139ca.1229789675.1a47d7

is that related to the problem of this topic???

The NBA website does not load right now... to sad, I wanted to see some stream videos of todays highlights...

Edited December 20, 2008 by MaxLee

[MILT]

since when did the PAD get deep-sea diving equipment?

[mrbojangles]

mrbojangles the net slowed down for me a couple of hours ago, coming good now. Mobily is working fine with UK websites opening fast after I stopped onspeed. Skype to Thailand was good up until a few minutes ago. Now the mrs can’t connect to the net in Thailand.

Yep Farma, normal service in Saudi seems to have been resumed. Not that it's much good at full speed anyhow

[MyphuketLife]

yesterday since 2.30 pm i could not reach any western site anymore... strange that in the 21 century, they still rely on technology with cables... they do not have some solid satellite backup ?

Same here in Phuket, today I can't pull up most US sites.... Google works but I am sure it is not pulling from a US datacenter....

It is strange to me that the base of the system requires underseas cables....

I just hope its fixed soon.

[mrmozambique]

Does anyone know what the advertised speeds for TOT in BKK are? I'm currently getting 1940KB/S on DL and about 395 UL. I'm in and out a lot, but it seems like my internet here in BKK has been abysmally slow for months. Even my internet in Mozambique is faster than here. What gives?

[nikster]

The official excuse is now that it was a ship's anchor. It's kind of hard to understand why they wouldn't make these underground cables so that anchors can't rip them out. Do they really just put them on the ground and hope for the best? In the Mediterranean?

To the above: TOT is crap, just get another provider.

[thaibkk]

funny about the 1940 speed... in kb = 200 - 230 kb sec

if i get 5 kb its a lot !

most time the sites time out

no f-***** alternative here, says TRUE (who do not want to invest here) & TOT who is smiling to get my money with no competition available

paying for a crappy service s**** major

[griser]

Well it looks like the cables were damaged, They currently don't know why. but everything is being routerd thru America atm.

Here is a clip from the company responsible for those undersea cables. looks like it should all be back to normal by years end.

Paris, December 19, 2008

* 3 cables cut this morning (Sea Me We3 partly + Sea Me We4 + FLAG)

* France Telecom Marine cable ship about to depart

France Telecom observed today that 3 major underwater cables were cut: “Sea Me We 4” at 7:28am, “Sea Me We3” at 7:33am and FLAG at 8:06am.

The causes of the cut, which is located in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Tunisia, on sections linking Sicily to Egypt, remain unclear.

Most of the B to B traffic between Europe and Asia is rerouted through the USA.

Traffic from Europe to Algeria and Tunisia is not affected, but traffic from Europe to the Near East and Asia is interrupted to a greater or lesser extent (see country list below).

Part of the internet traffic towards Réunion is affected as well as 50% towards Jordan.

A first appraisal at 7:44 am UTC gave an estimate of the following impact on the voice traffic (in percentage of out of service capacity):

- Saudi Arabia: 55% out of service

- Djibouti: 71% out of service

- Egypt: 52% out of service

- United Arab Emirates: 68% out of service

- India: 82% out of service

- Lebanon: 16% out of service

- Malaysia: 42% out of service

- Maldives: 100% out of service

- Pakistan: 51% out of service

- Qatar: 73% out of service

- Syria: 36% out of service

- Taiwan: 39% out of service

- Yemen: 38% out of service

- Zambia: 62% out of service

France Telecom immediately alerted one of the two maintenance boats based in the Mediterranean area, the “Raymond Croze”. This France Telecom Marine cable ship based at Seyne-sur-Mer has received its mobilization order early this afternoon and will cast off tonight at 3:00 am with 20 kilometers spare cable on board. It should be on location on Monday morning for a relief mission.

Priority will be given to the recovery of the Sea Me We4 cable, then on the Sea Me We3.

By December 25th, Sea Me We4 could be operating. By December 31st, the situation should be back to normal.

I personally think they should set mines around the dam_n cables... then lets see if those boats mess with them.

Merry Xmas!

Edited December 23, 2008 by griser

[griser]

Cant download at any decent speeds. arggh.

Your choice of avatar bewilders me. Its a great cartoon, but saddens me...Have you yanks not got the message yet? Did the nasty Iranians call you names? leave them alone <deleted>!

step 1 . cut coms.

step 2. warning shot or the real thing...???

etc...

probably in preparation for the next US sponsored folly... the division of pakistan so the pipes can run from Iran through whats left of nuked pakistan and hey presto, we have the yellow peril by the short and curlies. HOOOHA

will it be Bush's Iran?

or Obama's Pakistan?

Guess Iran's plan about dropping a few fusion weapons on his neighbors has eluded you?

But that's a discussion for another forum

Greg

[sniffdog]

After a short moment of inactivity my TOT speed shot up ....

Edited December 26, 2008 by sniffdog