More downtime on SEACOM cable

[rpm]

More SEACOM downtime frustrates ISPs

SEACOM experiences downtime, starting from just before midnight last night, which is most likely caused by terrestrial cable problems

 

[Roadrunner]

Could it be sabotage?

 

[DarkStreet]

8 hours and it's still not fixed?

 

[Leno]

8 hours and it's still not fixed?

Takes a little longer to send a ship to the area m8

 

[Valerion]

Takes a little longer to send a ship to the area m8

Yeah, cause those big landships are so slow these days.

Early indications are that it is not an undersea cable break on SEACOM which is responsible for the latest downtime, but rather issues on the route between Alexandria and Cairo.

 

[Blaze786]

My Mweb is fine? Isnt Mweb using SEACOM?

Edit: NEVERmind its dead...

 

[Ghost29]

Yeah, cause those big landships are so slow these days.

+1

Hehe.

 

[TJ99]

Seacom again... sigh. Seems they're related to Telkom, from these high failure rates.

Wasn't there an article on MyBB just yesterday about them just having put in new redundancy?

 

[Gtx Gaming]

My Mweb is fine? Isnt Mweb using SEACOM?

they have bandwitdh on sat-3 also, they just route there traffic though sat-3 for the time

 

[Wavelength]

Takes a little longer to send a ship to the area m8

Did you even bother to read the whole article?

 

[DarkStreet]

Yeah, cause those big landships are so slow these days.

LMAO!

 

[I O U]

I've noticed the last few days, that Web Africa's local connection has been rather useless even for basic internet.

And they claim to use their own platform, so Seacom shouldn't have any bearing on them, whatsoever.

 

[Blaze786]

I've noticed the last few days, that Web Africa's local connection has been rather useless even for basic internet.

And they claim to use their own platform, so Seacom shouldn't have any bearing on them, whatsoever.

There network in general is upto ****!

 

[MidnightWizard]

Possible ?

I wonder if this cable system was not put in in a great rush for the great SWC ?
Was it used for that purpose at all ?
or
Did Telkom just use the upgraded SAT3 ?
Still it does seem strange that a maritime cable system is always being derailed by terrestrial problems ?????

 

[Artite]

Seacom

Eish-- sight :wtf: Seacom again. It's going to take fews days again that's sucks.
Does anyone know from which company i can purchase a 1 gig voucher and doesn't go through seacom ? Just actually play online game without a pin at 10 s lol. Or everybody using the same line?
thank

 

[Flashgear]

Fml. Seacom. 'nuf said.

 

[Spyk3r]

Well on openweb gold I was getting great speeds this morning. 350± till 7:15... That's when I turned off my pc and went to work. Not when it died

Guess they have made a plan for additional redundancy. Hope it gets fixed soon though

 

[T3rminator]

The SEACOM downtime is indeed getting ridiculous, especially for people who rely solely on it.

Take a look at these graphs:
http://monitor.net.tenet.ac.za/cacti/graph_view.php?action=tree&tree_id=3&leaf_id=969

Pretty hey? Unfortunately TENET is currently relying only on SEACOM for bandwidth so no international access for me

 

[BCR]

Does anyone know from which company i can purchase a 1 gig voucher and doesn't go through seacom ?

http://www.nexus.co.za/contacts.html

They do use SAIX far as I know, but double-check.
Also, their rates are more expensive, but if you want reliability you'll have to pay a bit more. I've had no problems with them so far.

 

[Rouxenator]

SAT3... I'm lovin' it