MWEB SEACOM status update

This country is a joke.
I cannot believe in this day and age we have to put up with this crap.
It is 2010 and we have either Seacom or SAIX??? Wow talk about redundancy
 
It seems to be working OK now though, not 100% but things are loading alright.
 
marine1 said:
This country is a joke.
I cannot believe in this day and age we have to put up with this crap.
It is 2010 and we have either Seacom or SAIX??? Wow talk about redundancy
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We are in mid-2010 and we are way behind in everything that relates to technology...the government continues to spend our money on useless BS because of the Europeans Control and influence on this continent...

ITS TIME TO UPGRADE our telecommunication services, from top to bottom...fuk.
 
you really want government to take control of submarine cables and telecommunications in general?

um. are you crazy?

the cables are coming.

lets not forget we only started getting things moving after 94.

we have come a very long way.

its one week people!!!!!!!

youd think they said we are taking away all cables and putting in homing birds!
 
g-d-zilla said:
OH SHAME! It does NOT only affect MWEB so stop bawling! It affects Internet Solutions and all their downline ISPs too. Shut up, MWEB!
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Agreed! Mweb suddenly think they are 'all that & a bag of chips'.
 
g-d-zilla said:
OH SHAME! It does NOT only affect MWEB so stop bawling! It affects Internet Solutions and all their downline ISPs too. Shut up, MWEB!
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Looks like MWEB is the only ISP that is actively trying to ensure that their customers have some kind of connectivity, even if it is iffy. The other ISP just don't give a rats ass.
 
boerseun said:
Looks like MWEB is the only ISP that is actively trying to ensure that their customers have some kind of connectivity, even if it is iffy. The other ISP just don't give a rats ass.
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Even without the proxy that Afrihost has supplied to it's customers, it's all gravy on Afrihost.
 
boerseun said:
Looks like MWEB is the only ISP that is actively trying to ensure that their customers have some kind of connectivity, even if it is iffy. The other ISP just don't give a rats ass.
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I agree, I am with Mweb. Running a 4meg uncapped account and have been extremely happy with their efforts to keep me connected. Even with a huge customer base, Mweb your service is great. FREE THE WEB :)
 
Some of you might like this

SUVEER RAMDHANI: This is quite a serious failure. We are estimating a minimum of six to eight days, and potentially up to two weeks.
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My monies on two weeks :)
 
@Gushesh - I have x2 AH accounts, both capped, 1x 15GB and 1x 60GB and can tell you all is not well there. On the 15GB acc I get no Skype, MSN, Gmail, Email, etc etc but on the 60GB all was fine until this morning. I began experiencing the same issues as the 15GB acc.

I also have an MWEB acc and cant use that now because my email is hosted off-shore which left me no choice but to grab some SAT3 fat this morning and signed up with Telkom. Yay all is as before again :)
 
At least they are making an effort, Axxess and a few others have no backup plan, Axxess said it will be fixed in 6-8 days, me thinks they going to lose a customer or two
 
Can someone please explain this to me

Seacom has not yet confirmed by when they expect a complete recovery on the recent failure on the international bandwidth links, but it is understood that it could take at least a week.
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Now do I interpret that as, it WILL take at least a week, or COULD take at least a week (which doesnt make sense)?
 
mike147 said:
I agree, I am with Mweb. Running a 4meg uncapped account and have been extremely happy with their efforts to keep me connected. Even with a huge customer base, Mweb your service is great. FREE THE WEB :)
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I"m with Mweb. I don't know the status of the other ISP's, so I won't comment on how good Mweb is/is not. All that I know is that I have been holding twice for technical support for 10min; once last week and yesterday; and gave up. That's horrific customer support. I did not have internet for the past two days, but tonight it seems on and off at dial up speed. So much for 'uncapped 4mb' :(
 
marine1 said:
This country is a joke.
I cannot believe in this day and age we have to put up with this crap.
It is 2010 and we have either Seacom or SAIX??? Wow talk about redundancy
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I think you're extrapolating way too far. It's not the country, it's a few short-sighted ISPs you are talking about. There are multiple alternatives for regional Tier 1 connectivity, all of whom are using multiple cable systems. How do you think that the larger (non-Telkom) networks (e.g. Vodacom, MTN, Neotel) are able to provide perfectly good international connectivity currently? They're certainly not dependent only on SEACOM and SAIX. They're typically using a blend which includes SAT-3 and SAFE connectivity that is NOT provided by SAIX, as well as SEACOM etc. Who needs SAIX? They're just another large local ISP, not a global transit provider. If those short-sighted ISPs (specifically including M-Web) bought proper international transit capacity (from one or more Tier 1s), instead of a single link on SEACOM, you wouldn't see this mess at all.
 
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I thought I would reply to FormFactor's comment "its one week people"

Here we are three weeks later and no SEACOM.
 
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