Seacom downtime update

Good ol' Mweb Guy. :)

That's positive news at least. For now I am just updating games on Steam which, ironically, is going to use a lot more bandwidth than the other things I'd be doing.
 
Its 17:28

Still nothing important works... at least now Seacom's website loads.

Dropbox: 0.3kbytes/sec... will take 8 days to sync the program says
http download from netload: 4.1kbytes/sec... 2 days 12 hours ETA
 
i toke a week off to go down to see family and get back to some online gaming i miss, and now got nothing. :(
better be back soon....

there update : 23 MARCH 2013
SEACOM Outage – 10:10 GMT

Work is continuing in Marseille with the teams on site. We will update further as information becomes available.

WAS more then 3 hours ago...
 
sheldon17 said:
i toke a week off to go down to see family and get back to some online gaming i miss, and now got nothing. :(
better be back soon....

there update : 23 MARCH 2013
SEACOM Outage – 10:10 GMT

Work is continuing in Marseille with the teams on site. We will update further as information becomes available.

WAS more then 3 hours ago...
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Have you claimed the free 3GB trial account from Axxess? Takes a few minutes using their website. Do you have a free Afrihost GB? Even if neither option is available to you, just buy some bandwidth. Afrihost has 5GB prepaid for R120. Axxess has 2GB prepaid vouchers for R35, so 6GB for R105.
 
Does anyone understand the recent seacom update? Am I to assume that this could take days to repair?
 
Antybubbs said:
Does anyone understand the recent seacom update? Am I to assume that this could take days to repair?
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it has happened in the past that it takes days to repair as is the case again.
http://mybroadband.co.za/news/telecoms/35656-seacom-downtime-may-last-for-days.html

However this is the first time that mweb only has 30% backup capacity in the past they have had 60% and up and have acquired additional capacity from SAT3. This time it seems they are leaving the redundant capacity issues to be resolved by seacom themselves but who knows when that will be as it seems they are having issues with it.
 
Yep. CT, Southern Suburbs, Pinelands here, ..1mb is brookeeenn..still...
 
All good here. We wuv you seacom (or backup measure lol)
 
This time it seems those of us on MWEB are totally screwed...
Even trying to use Google is a 15-20 minute experience...:mad:
 
Koosi said:
This time it seems those of us on MWEB are totally screwed...
Even trying to use Google is a 15-20 minute experience...:mad:
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Why do I keep reading about Mweb customers unable to use the net? Don't you have any initiative? I used my free 1GB Afrihost account, a 3GB Axxess trial and I'm currently using a 5GB Web Africa trial. Tomorrow I'll grab the free data from Imaginet.
 
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Bryn26 said:
Why do I keep reading about Mweb customers unable to use the net? Don't you have any initiative? I used my free 1GB Afrihost account, a 3GB Axxess trial and I'm currently using a 5GB Web Africa trial. Tomorrow I'll grab the free data from Imaginet.
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Firstly, the downloads I do for work frequently are > 6GB a piece
Secondly, the pain of having to re-configure the router each time doesn't appeal to me.
The stuff here is set up for MWEB, I am not about to waste 1/2 a day to change all of that every few hours to hop from free account to free account.

And yes you will hear its always MWEB customers. I am not that stupid to put ALL MY EGGS into the SEACOM basket, and then have highly pissed off customers when the cable is cut, as so frequently happens.

The problem is switching to another ISP is not a solution in the long term. MWEB don't shape/meddle in my downloads like other ISPs do, and furthermore if I have a problem it gets fixed the same day. Have you seen how bad the other ISPs service levels are at the moment. I will stick to MWEB for technical reasons. But yes its majorly irritating about SEACOM. Perhaps the only thing I can say is that MWEB were utterly silly not to have sufficient backup
 
I just copy and paste a new user name and password into the router's WAN settings and restart. Takes a minute. It's not ideal but at least I can open web pages and get stuff done.
 
Koosi said:
Firstly, the downloads I do for work frequently are > 6GB a piece
Secondly, the pain of having to re-configure the router each time doesn't appeal to me.
The stuff here is set up for MWEB, I am not about to waste 1/2 a day to change all of that every few hours to hop from free account to free account.

And yes you will hear its always MWEB customers. I am not that stupid to put ALL MY EGGS into the SEACOM basket, and then have highly pissed off customers when the cable is cut, as so frequently happens.

The problem is switching to another ISP is not a solution in the long term. MWEB don't shape/meddle in my downloads like other ISPs do, and furthermore if I have a problem it gets fixed the same day. Have you seen how bad the other ISPs service levels are at the moment. I will stick to MWEB for technical reasons. But yes its majorly irritating about SEACOM. Perhaps the only thing I can say is that MWEB were utterly silly not to have sufficient backup
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You are incorrect about many issues.

- Every ADSL account I've ever had just required a username and password change and a router restart
- It's irrelevant what your internet needs are. Free accounts give you access, Mweb doesn't.
- Switching ISP's is most definitely a long-term solution. Mweb can never handle Seacom downtime, and other ISP's have shown efficient redundancy.
- Openweb kills Mweb when it comes to extreme data consumption. Mweb just kicks you off if they don't like what you're up to, and they shape aggressively.
- There's nothing you can do about Mweb's network, but you have a choice as to which network you rely on. So ultimately your choices will determine your future internet experience.
 
Question - I'm on Mweb Business and have fairly decent access still.

The users on Mweb who seem to have little or nothing, are they all ' domestic' users, high-end users ?

Why are some hit and some not ?
 
daveza said:
Question - I'm on Mweb Business and have fairly decent access still.

The users on Mweb who seem to have little or nothing, are they all ' domestic' users, high-end users ?

Why are some hit and some not ?
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Our Mweb business account has no problems locally and with some international connectivity, but some backend like Panda Security and CentraStage is dead, we also can’t access some servers and hardware and have regular timeouts and disconnects with remote support. The IS business accounts also have similar problems… But you are correct, a certain WISP which only utilises Mweb business accounts have little to no problems…
 
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Koosi said:
Firstly, the downloads I do for work frequently are > 6GB a piece
Secondly, the pain of having to re-configure the router each time doesn't appeal to me.
The stuff here is set up for MWEB, I am not about to waste 1/2 a day to change all of that every few hours to hop from free account to free account.

And yes you will hear its always MWEB customers. I am not that stupid to put ALL MY EGGS into the SEACOM basket, and then have highly pissed off customers when the cable is cut, as so frequently happens.

The problem is switching to another ISP is not a solution in the long term. MWEB don't shape/meddle in my downloads like other ISPs do, and furthermore if I have a problem it gets fixed the same day. Have you seen how bad the other ISPs service levels are at the moment. I will stick to MWEB for technical reasons. But yes its majorly irritating about SEACOM. Perhaps the only thing I can say is that MWEB were utterly silly not to have sufficient backup
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I don't get it - I have a 2Mbps MWEB uncapped home account and I have been streaming Hulu and Youtube all weekend. So it seems their redundancy via other cable systems seems to be working. I wish it were better though.
 
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