Massive Internet outage in SA

Telkom's working fine for me today - on mobile. Fibre is slower than saturnz in his Opel though.
 
moklet said:
Better keeps some hard cash in the couch, just in case the banking and bitcoin crashes due to internet issues.

But i have money in the bank
But I have bitcoin
Can you access it ?

I have cash
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Or just have key essentials at home and a bit of cash.

Without leaving the house, we should survive comfortably for a month.
 
B-1 said:
These topics are covered in most DR documents across enterprise. You saw some of it play out today, yes things went down but being able to recover from 4 international links having serious issues in half a day is pretty good.
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I think the thing is that it probably shouldn't have gone 100% down in the manner it did though. in theory an international cable break shouldn't totally affect a local south african business that needs to access their outlook exchange server that's hosted on a local server in SA. they should still be able to access their stored mail and send/receive to other local businesses in SA even when international connectivity is severed.
 
So the Houthis from Yemen (Proudly supported by the Palestinian lovers in South Africa), sunk and its anchor damaged and cut through a string of undersea internet cables (including ours).

So Yemen Houthis 1 : South African Internet Users 0
 
moklet said:
Better keeps some hard cash in the couch, just in case the banking and bitcoin crashes due to internet issues.

But i have money in the bank
But I have bitcoin
Can you access it ?

I have cash
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Ya, one should not build your whole life on pleasure streams depending on power & cables & satalites(not now).
-One can do without luxury & pleasure, but you have to be able to buy food, till that is not possible either,and reality set in forcing you out of your coded life into the lower levels, not what you were borned into, I cannot think of a worse wake up call..to all.
 
Vuma / Cool Ideas - still working as expected.

Ping: 2ms
Download: 514.88Mbps
Upload: 240.22Mbps
 
SeeDster, KoSmuCk , m'cBasKet case & SeMiHeRO please note - Quad trolls from last outage - U really need to understand this. Probably still dont. Never mind - may be in a few years.
 
Lots of websites are near dead they are so slow, half the page will load and then nothing else.
Mybb is still loading quickly, probably locally hosted?
 
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