No International?

[Jonathanb]

TIME: 2 Feb 2010 9:15:28 AM

ADDITIONAL: There is a major power failure in Abidjan Nigeria affecting all the SAT-3 Links. Only internal circuits are being affected and is related to the completed maintenance Telkom was carrying out on the SAT-3.

TIME: 2 Feb 2010 9:47:51 AM

ADDITIONAL: MTN Business has rerouted all SAT-3 traffic via Seacom STM4.

We will however experience degraded performance as the link is fully utilized. Telkom will commence restoration of the SAT3 circuits at 09:50AM

 

[Bismuth]

Dammit, and for once I wanted to visit a legit. site in South America!

B

 

[Coza]

Doens anyone know if this also affects MTN and vodacom 3g ?

 

[davemc]

I am with AfriHost - connecting to a DSLAM in Margate.
I am unable to see international - or it's intermittent.

What confuses me is that I thought AfriHost's ADSL was seacom based.

 

[Rudimental]

Mmm I love the smell of redundancy in the morning.

 

[Jonathanb]

Seacom

the SAT3 being down should not have affected anyone connecting via Seacom but now we know it was all a myth and Helkom still controls our minds

 

[Snake Blisken]

Seems to be backup!!!! Yay

 

[Mamajyot]

International working really fast for me in durban now.
Using IS.

 

[greywolve]

vodacom 3g is down for me internationally in dewaterkant cape town

 

[Mamajyot]

Some sites not working. facebook fifa.com youtube working.
Sadly no gmail

 

[ChrisJ]

Another one from IS - Satellite is also down.

Dear IS Customer We are experiencing the following service event:
AFFECTED SERVICES: International Business DSL Satellite
AFFECTED POPS: National
GRADE OF SERVICE IMPACT: Critical
SERVICE IMPACT: No connectivity
CAUSE OF EVENT: Cause unknown
TIME: 2-2-10 09h42
OUR REF: N/A
CURRENT STATUS: Investigating
ATTENDING: Upstream Service Provider
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: None

 

[deweyzeph]

I am with AfriHost - connecting to a DSLAM in Margate.
I am unable to see international - or it's intermittent.

What confuses me is that I thought AfriHost's ADSL was seacom based.

Afrihost has never stated that their bandwidth was seacom based. For the record, Afrihost do not run or control their own ADSL network. They resell IS bandwidth. Any issues you might have with an Afrihost ADSL account is ultimately Internet Solution's problem.

 

[Mamajyot]

Ok.. surfing is intermittent(excuse spelling).

Now facebook down..... sigh....

 

[nitroyetevn]

Another one from IS - Satellite is also down.

when it rains it pours...

 

[eek]

oh crap. Our internet access depends on Nigerian infrastructure?

Could've been Somalia!

 

[SWB]

Down in Durbanville and Brackenfell too. Damn SAIX, what do I do NOW? I can't go outside.:wtf:

 

[HapticSimian]

Ok.. surfing is intermittent (excuse spelling).

Now facebook down..... sigh....

You only need to make excuses for your spelling if you made a spelling mistake.

On topic: AAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[zll]

Ours seems to be back up! Curses!

 

[Bismuth]

\o/ International seems to be working again.

B

 

[waz7710]

So Much for the redundancy of SeaCom!!