Another SEACOM outage
Broadband users may experience international connectivity problems after another SEACOM outage
Broadband users may experience international connectivity problems after another SEACOM outage
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SEACOM downtime after local backhaul problems
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Biscuit1018
Expert Member
JustinHarrison
Active Member
This is getting old, really fast.
czc
Honorary Master
Wow, is this going to be like Eskom load shedding?
Tjoker
Expert Member
JustinHarrison
Active Member
You would think after the last outage Afrihost would have made some preparations in case of another outage... this is insane!!!!!!!!!!! - Which ISP does not use Seacom, because I am ready to move!
DarkStreet
Expert Member
MWeb and WebAfrica seems to be the safest best.
Grim147
Well-Known Member
lol and half of south africa cant check there gmail/facebook again
kwaggawerner
Senior Member
*facepalm*
Rosaudio
First Officer
MWEB - Perfect
ReubenL
Banned
See this thread for updates: http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php?229545-IS-Network-Status-Updates
Maestr0
Senior Member
on openweb's gold network...getting speeds of 2mbit per second, so I'm not too bothered
MWEB also had a problem but they seem to have re-routed traffic. I sincerely hope that Afrihost starts looking at a backup plan.
JustinHarrison
Active Member
I am off to contact Mweb and ditch these idiots at Afrihost - enough is enough, even though I accept it is a Seacom problem, surely they should have a backup plan.
"ADSL Network
ALERT: International consumer ADSL access
Last updated: 15h00, 4th May 2010
International ADSL access is currently offline.
We're in close commununication with our up stream provider for an update and will update our status page accordingly.
We sincerely apologise for the disruption in service and we thank you for your patience. "
"ADSL Network
ALERT: International consumer ADSL access
Last updated: 15h00, 4th May 2010
International ADSL access is currently offline.
We're in close commununication with our up stream provider for an update and will update our status page accordingly.
We sincerely apologise for the disruption in service and we thank you for your patience. "
I'm getting 0.42Mbps download speed on a 512Kbps line on MWEb, so there's a bit of slowdown but nothing major.
Like an hour and a half ago no websites would work for like 2 minutes, but since then it's been fine
Like an hour and a half ago no websites would work for like 2 minutes, but since then it's been fine
JustinHarrison
Active Member
I am off to contact Mweb and ditch these idiots at Afrihost - enough is enough, even though I accept it is a Seacom problem, surely they should have a backup plan.
"ADSL Network
ALERT: International consumer ADSL access
Last updated: 15h00, 4th May 2010
International ADSL access is currently offline.
We're in close commununication with our up stream provider for an update and will update our status page accordingly.
We sincerely apologise for the disruption in service and we thank you for your patience. "
"ADSL Network
ALERT: International consumer ADSL access
Last updated: 15h00, 4th May 2010
International ADSL access is currently offline.
We're in close commununication with our up stream provider for an update and will update our status page accordingly.
We sincerely apologise for the disruption in service and we thank you for your patience. "
Biscuit1018
Expert Member
I think most use some part of SEACOM.
It seems that Afrihost depend on SEACOM while Mweb and Web Africa have it in their armory.
So if SEACOM goes down MWeb and WA will be affected but not screwed.
ReubenL
Banned
M-Web also uses IS for their uncapped accounts. Ath this time I don't think that any ISP in SA have international connectivity.