But it is not Seacom that went down right? It is SEA-ME-WE 4 - which has been active since 2005 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEA-ME-WE_4).
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But it is not Seacom that went down right? It is SEA-ME-WE 4 - which has been active since 2005 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEA-ME-WE_4).
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Yeah, that too. I was preempting a wiseguy connected by wireless from his laptop to his router
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And when do teething problems show up? New installations are often prone to out of the box failures or infant mortalities. A ship's anchor dragged over a cable will damage it no matter what it's age though. (SEA-ME-WE was damaged by a shunt fault.)
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Based on the latest feedback we have received from Seacom this afternoon , it now seems likely that the repairs to their undersea cable will only be completed by Friday the 30th of April. The work is being severely hampered by poor weather conditions at sea. Whilst we have been able to secure alternative international bandwidth for the full duration of the repairs, as I stated previously there is some congestion on these links and it is affecting our service. Bandwidth-intensive applications such as peer-to-peer will therefore be de-prioritised until sufficient capacity once again becomes available.
We apologise for any inconvenience that this may be causing you and thank you for your patience during this time.
We will continue to monitor the situation on an ongoing basis and as and when we receive updates we will notify you via our Free The Web site and via our online outages noticeboard at http://www.mweb.co.za/helpcentre/NetworkStatusNotices/tabid/1765/Default.aspx
Kind regards
MWEB Operations
We apologise for any inconvenience that this may be causing you and thank you for your patience during this time.
We will continue to monitor the situation on an ongoing basis and as and when we receive updates we will notify you via our Free The Web site and via our online outages noticeboard at http://www.mweb.co.za/helpcentre/NetworkStatusNotices/tabid/1765/Default.aspx
Kind regards
MWEB Operations
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Whoo hoo! No studies for me this week... Rhodes campus is dragging its feet big time today. I'm with MWEB and 'congested' is a major understatement. Still waiting for a 54MB PDF to download... Time to put my feet up and relax.
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The first time I have actually checked my speed today, a 9MB MP3 from the BBC is downloading at 3.3KByte/sec on a 4Mbps Mweb line!? 48 mins to go LOL ;-)
Edit: Oops, its going backwards, 2.1KByte/sec, 47 mins to go...
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dont worry I've been getting that for the past week....
@MWEB Ops - surely you cannot prioritise local traffic too? even local sites are running at snail pace. You not caching these sites or are the cache servers filling up to fast? come on....have a heart...
Have reserved GIB for your VIP clients and can we have it tomorrow when businesses are closed? 