Massive Internet outage in SA

[Bundu]

My money is on Russia being the culprit.

don't their "elections" start tomorrow?

 

[Rickster]

Damn, can't play Modern Warfare.

 

[Mr Justice]

If this is a sea cable break why are local connections to local hosting also affected?

 

[Jean Claude Vaaldamme]

Don't know if it is related. I been little on internet today so did not notice anything strange.
Just played a game of Fortnite and ping is 380. The kids murdered me and I only realized I was sniped 1/2 sec later

 

[Franna]

Thank goodness the cable repair ship to the rescue is currently moored in Cape Town…

 

[NR7]

Damn, can't play Modern Warfare.

Don't know if it is related. I been little on internet today so did not notice anything strange.
Just played a game of Fortnite and ping is 380.

If you're on PC, have you guys tried Cloudflare Warp?

 

[Speedster]

Is there any form of ETA on some kind of work around for this? I'm trying to stream from Germany via VPN and it is a disaster.

 

[B-1]

Is there any form of ETA on some kind of work around for this? I'm trying to stream from Germany via VPN and it is a disaster.

Some cables will need to be fixed and that could take a while. Its likely to get worse as people jump on what capacity remains.

 

[Mike Hoxbig]

That's local. No ways in hell will you get 2ms to any international sites even on a very good day.

London:

Cool Ideas/Vumatel
500 Mbps line

Ping not ideal, but probably because it's being rerouted. Still more than workable considering the issues everyone else is having...

 

[Corelli]

If this is a sea cable break why are local connections to local hosting also affected?

Because SA hosts a lot in cloud environments.

Ie Amazon's main servers for SA is in Ireland. And since a lot of businesses uses AWS for cloud hosting locally it goes off.

 

[Corelli]

So if was our Eastern Cables running past Yemen.

I posted earlier. Houthis sank a ship that had put out an anchor as it sank, the anchor drifted and sliced thru the cables running past Yemen. Just below Saudi

 

[Solarion]

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So if was our Eastern Cables running past Yemen.

I posted earlier. Houthis sank a ship that had put out an anchor as it sank, the anchor drifted and sliced thru the cables running past Yemen. Just below Saudi

Is this confirmed?

 

[Alexander the Straight]

Is this confirmed?

"And the latest outage could not have come at a worse time, given that the Seacom cable, which connects South Africa to Europe along Africa’s east coast, was recently severed in the Red Sea, possibly as the result of a ship’s anchor. Repairs to the Seacom cable will take time as a result of the geopolitical instability in the region."

 

[Solarion]

"And the latest outage could not have come at a worse time, given that the Seacom cable, which connects South Africa to Europe along Africa’s east coast, was recently severed in the Red Sea, possibly as the result of a ship’s anchor. Repairs to the Seacom cable will take time as a result of the geopolitical instability in the region."

Thanks Major

 

[IOPS]

Ie Amazon's main servers for SA is in Ireland. And since a lot of businesses uses AWS for cloud hosting locally it goes off.

Huh?
That's simply not true. If AWS customers host in a specific region, that's where the content goes. There are no "main servers" - AWS has presense in SA, if content is hosted within the region it doesn't go to Ireland.

 

[pstation]

Because SA hosts a lot in cloud environments.

Ie Amazon's main servers for SA is in Ireland. And since a lot of businesses uses AWS for cloud hosting locally it goes off.

Seems like such a broken design because Amazon, Oracle, Google cloud, and Azure all have data centers in SA that local companies should be utilizing.

For instance I couldn't swipe a local credit card at a local merchant using a local credit processor somehow because ... some terror group halfway across the world has beef with the US and decided to cut a few cables under the ocean?

 

[Dan C]

London:
View attachment 1675981
Cool Ideas/Vumatel
500 Mbps line

Ping not ideal, but probably because it's being rerouted. Still more than workable considering the issues everyone else is having...

Most ISP's are trying to re-route. But a speed test on this occasion actually means nothing if you have to deal with MS servers.

 

[IOPS]

Seems like such a broken design because Amazon, Oracle, Google cloud, and Azure all have data centers in SA that local companies should be utilizing.

For instance I couldn't swipe a local credit card at a local merchant using a local credit processor somehow because ... some terror group halfway across the world has beef with the US and decided to cut a few cables under the ocean?

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Jasis, WTF are you talking about with these conspiracies?
You're probably seeing a badly configured infrastructure with Azure, who seem to be re-routing a bunch of traffic outside of ZA, so affected by cable breaks.

Take off your tinfoil hat dude.

 

[DapperDanMan]

I am probably late to this, but here is what I can see from the perspective of the TENET network.
The primary link to London, WACS went down at 12:30 today.
the SAT-3 backup link went down today at 07:30 AM

all international traffic for tenet is being directed through SEACOM

There is a truth to that statement.

That's why you revealed it to us in reverse chronological order.


BasBas is a genius ...

 

[airborne]

Geez it's looking pretty bad

https://twitter.com/x/status/1768254440300069172

Why so many all at once, are they all close together?