Seacom Connectivity

OK..for the anal ones, obviously local South African connectivity only. :whistle:
 
lol ok then my next question was, you have no international at all?
 
nothing. pings out; traces all die en-route still.

Oh and I have loads of my DSL cap left just in case that was your next question.
 
Raedwulf said:
Ouch that's terrible. What ISP are you on?
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Tell me about it. One (ISP that has received a lot of praise on this forum) that relies on SEA ME WE 4 and has no other effective alternative...need I say more.
 
I'm on MWeb uncapped 384. Local has been fine for the duration of the repairs. International is slow and lagged much of the time, but it's never been unavailable or unusable (in the sense that I can browse international sites).
 
I have 512 mweb, and really haven't had many issues. I can do downloads with JDownloader, though slowly, browsing has been close to perfect, vids haven't been streaming that well, but not dead. Gaming sadly though is close to impossible.
 
You guys know about the work on the Seacom cable...yet you keep on bitching like a bunch of babies. Be patient for **** sakes!!!
 
Maestr0 said:
You guys know about the work on the Seacom cable...yet you keep on bitching like a bunch of babies. Be patient for **** sakes!!!
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you got it wrong....remember.
there is nothing wrong with the Seacom cables, the issue lies with SEA ME WE 4 on a section of their cable which runs in the med.
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I also dislike ignorant people..and this situation is costing my company business.

waiting for the ISP trolls to jump out of the matrix about now...
 
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DeSLAM said:
you got it wrong....remember.


I also dislike ignorant people..and this situation is costing my company business.

waiting for the ISP trolls to jump out of the matrix about now...
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But that is unfortunately the nature of international electronic communication. Remember how many days it DOES for work. Go read here and think about how frustrated they must have been; we are not the only ones affected by the present outage.

ISPs did as best they could on alternate routes. The repairs are being completed as rapidly as possible. There is not enough backup bandwidth because of the history and cost of communications in this country. If we have "X" Tbps total in the country, do you honestly expect that there will be ANOTHER "X" as backup? Or even "X/2" as backup? Cables break, systems fail. I'm on MWeb uncapped 384 and international has been slow and laggy sometimes, but still usable. MWeb claims they are running at 60% or 65%, whatever that means.

It is unfortunate that the outage costs you money. The cable is broken and alternate routes (the more expensive ones like SAT3 and SAFE) are therefore heavily congested. What reasonable expectations do you have? That a major cable goes down and we can continue as normal? Maybe in another 5 years ...

And around and around in circles these discussions go ...
 
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