Seacom downtime update

Seacom update:

SEACOM is continuing its work to restore the capacity on the link that was cut between Egypt and Marseille on the morning of March 22.

As our customers have been advised overnight, the current delay is due to issues in getting the cross connects between the two stations in Marseille up and stable. These cross connects are the final step in bringing the restoration capacity into the SEACOM network in Europe. We are continuing to work with our partners today, and will update as we make progress and have clarity on restoration being available.

We again apologise for the problems this is causing our customers and partners.
 
Good communication, the updates and apologies are more than most offer.
 
mweb: a number of sites that functionally i can't use (google range of sites, facebook, many other random sites). origin is unusable (thus no simcity). torrents are down (can't even torrent mods for simcity4 to kill the time). steam is unusable.
 
this actually reminds me of the bad old days: finding locally-hosted sites to browse once my international cap was exhausted ;)
 
Lol, yeah.

I'm cruising forums and posting where the wind takes me. :p

Edit: I can access some games on Steam though. Just can't connect to Path of Exile servers. :(
 
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Been using a temp uncapped Afrihost acc.
Best R1 I have EVER spent

To quote someone on Twitter

"The Seacom link is down." is the new "The dog ate my homework." #MWEB
 
Rands said:
apology accepted. now give me a refund for an entire day of nil connection.
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You need a new ISP that has some redundancy!

rpm said:
Seacom update:

SEACOM is continuing its work to restore the capacity on the link that was cut between Egypt and Marseille on the morning of March 22.

As our customers have been advised overnight, the current delay is due to issues in getting the cross connects between the two stations in Marseille up and stable. These cross connects are the final step in bringing the restoration capacity into the SEACOM network in Europe. We are continuing to work with our partners today, and will update as we make progress and have clarity on restoration being available.

We again apologise for the problems this is causing our customers and partners.
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It amazes me how long it takes them since this is a recurring problem, they should have these route switches on standby at all times.

killerbyte said:
My MWEB connection is doing well. I just can't connect to SKype and all P2P traffic is dead.
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My MWEB was pretty good, was streaming Hulu last night, watching rugby this morning (OK that is local), but no P2P and Skype is nowhere.
 
my speedtest still shows 6mbit/s DL speeds on all overseas servers i try. yet my browsing is still nowhere. no GOOGLE! and bing seriously sucks :(
 
Can't play the games I want, Skype to mates or torrent, and this is a long weekend. :(
 
Guys does this affect CellC Hsdpa?I'm using a TPLink router with the 7.2Mbps 8ta dongle(Huawei?) and getting 4kol(speedtest avg. 0.42Mbps).Was working fine up to Wednesday evening.
 
I think this whole Seacom business started on Friday? Could be wrong, but if it did, something else may be causing problems.
 
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