International Slow

[SoftDux-Rudi]

Keegan, are you from IS?

[twicode]

It started at around 3:30 this morning. Seeing it isn't fixed yet expect a long wait.

[grim]

I got an email from Afrihost support saying that the SAT3 cable is down which will be affecting several ISPs.

So where is the Seacom or Easy backup cables now?! I thought that is the whole point of the original internet design - if one line goes down it should fall back to an alternative route. So why are so many ISPs still relying on one cable?

Let's not forget that WACS is also live now.

The problem is that the ISP's don't have 100% redundancy across the cables, they will have probably between 70%-90% of their total bandwidth on one cable and the rest on another cable(s) as fail over.

[werny]

Just got an SMS from Afrihost telling me that they are experiencing slow ADSL access.

Very good afrihost, atleast they tell us what is going on, now like the other ISP's.

[Roadrunner]

Some UK ISPs are putting up network notices of the same thing.

Is this related, or just a coincidence?

[djEJ]

Not sure of the UK suppliers...Could just be a coincidence, or the entire WWW is crumbling...

Afrihost is down for me (international). Local is cruising.

Edit: 8ta is working perfectly with Youtube running fine.

[MickeyD]

Not too bad for daytime speeds... TI 1024 uncapped account:

Local



International

[Angemon]

Webafrica international slow http://forums.webafrica.co.za/showth...ctivity-Outage

[AfriMan]

We are aware of the slow speeds and limited international access at the moment. We've got all our tech gurus working on this as our highest priority. We'll let you know when we have more info.

[WAJeff]

We are aware of the slow speeds and limited international access at the moment. We've got all our tech gurus working on this as our highest priority. We'll let you know when we have more info.

Good luck guys
Hope we can get things sorted ASAP. Not the kind of thing we want happening on a Friday eh

[DarkStreet]

Nope, especially if your work relies on it.

[ambo]

I'm seeing nasty congestion on IS and SAIX from ZA to Europe.

It doesn't seem to be the whole SAT-3 cable though, so possibly an isolated Telkom failure. My SAT-3 circuit is still humming.

[MickeyD]

My SAT-3 circuit is still humming.

Same here... see above!!

[AfriMan]

I'm seeing nasty congestion on IS and SAIX from ZA to Europe.

It doesn't seem to be the whole SAT-3 cable though, so possibly and isolated Telkom failure. My SAT-3 circuit is still humming.

As far as I know, we still haven't located the source of the issue, there are several possibilities being explored. We're working with all the concerned companies to get a result as soon as possible.

That's business speak for "We're doing our best to fix it"

[HermanTheGerman]

And here I am, thinking I could share some vital information by showing you the Afrihost status report ...

/me kicks copypasted message in the bin

Oh how do you guys even get to speedtest.net? When I tried to conduct a test, just 2 minutes ago the site didn't even load properly.