SEACOM cable hit by outage

Sigh. My fibre line has been pretty much unusable today. High packet loss, and downloads speeds around 0.5MB (it's a 50Mbit line). And this is all local tests. How Seacom affects this, I don't know, but then again my ISP is Amobia, who seem to have a pretty terrible network anyways.
 
I wonder what companies are affected because my UPLOAD stream for RSAWEB has been a nightmare the whole weekend.
On OBS it's mostly RED :(
 
medicnick83 said:
I wonder what companies are affected because my UPLOAD stream for RSAWEB has been a nightmare the whole weekend.
On OBS it's mostly RED :(
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I don't think the SEACOM cable break is to blame, the YouTube streaming should go to a local CDN.
 
Soul Assassin said:
I know this, he streams on YouTube, it's a local CDN, the data never leaves SA so I don't think the cable break is to blame.
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I thought CDN's are for downloading. Wouldn't he need to stream to Youtube proper?
 
Content delivery network.

He specifically streams to YouTube because it's local, he tried Twitch but it didn't work because the closest ingest servers are in the UK and Europe.
 
Soul Assassin said:
Content delivery network.

He specifically streams to YouTube because it's local, he tried Twitch but it didn't work because the closest ingest servers are in the UK and Europe.
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Ah ok, learned something new today.
 
SEACOM said an expected repair date for its cable outage is yet to be confirmed.

The marine fault affecting the subsea cable system happened on 8 April at around 19:00, and is located west of Djibouti in the Red Sea.

"The impact of the incident is that all linear transmission traffic on the east coast of Africa to and from Europe will be affected," said SEACOM.

"The repair vessel is currently in port loading spares and acquiring the necessary permits."

"A repair date will be confirmed once permits have been received."

"Customers with IP or other managed network services will remain unaffected, but could experience higher latencies with possible degradation of service".

SEACOM said it is working to establish restoration options for customers who have requested them.
 
you can add this.

*Our repair vessel is being mobilized and a tentative plan of work will be available soon. As this is a subsea outage, expected down time is 3 to 6 weeks.*
 
yep, packet loss and increased latency on almost all the ISP's, some worse than others by far ....... 3-6 weeks in 2017 is pretty unreal of a repair time, I mean ffs.
 
Praemon said:
Sigh. My fibre line has been pretty much unusable today. High packet loss, and downloads speeds around 0.5MB (it's a 50Mbit line). And this is all local tests. How Seacom affects this, I don't know, but then again my ISP is Amobia, who seem to have a pretty terrible network anyways.
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I have been having this for close to two weeks and the ISP keep on telling me everything is fine... ProtekAI

Will see how it goes once this is fixed...
 
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So, I assume Afrihost is one of the affected ISPs?
(Just double checking, because things have been less than stellar lately.)
 
Update on MWEB home page:

International Outage

Update @ 11:00am on Tuesday 11th April. We’ve heard back from SEACOM. They are indicating that it could take between 3-6 weeks to repair the cable break. We're in discussions with a number of operators to secure more international bandwidth on alternative cable systems to cover any shortfall during peak times.
 
Is this the reason why my netflix is slow/buggy today? was working fine yest, youtube and dstv online are working fine and im still within my internet cap...
 
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