SEACOM outage in SA

[Bradley Prior]

SEACOM outage in SA

SEACOM continues to experience an outage on its subsea cable system which is affecting various services in South Africa.

The company issued an announcement to customers this morning about an outage on its subsea cable system that occurred last night at 22:00 GMT.

 

[ginggs]

Seacom? Who are they?

Oh, these guys:

SEACOM cuts off ISPs in new peering policy

SEACOM has implemented a new peering policy which means many South African ISPs are no longer able to peer directly with the company.

mybroadband.co.za

Wouldn't peering help them during outages?

 

[Thor]

You are a fool if you still use Seacom

 

[hungrymamba]

Works for me

 

[ginggs]

Works for me

Is that an international speed test?

 

[hungrymamba]

Is that an international speed test?

Maybe not, I am not much of a techie...

 

[Apogee]

Is that an international speed test?

No, the Mybroadband Speed Test app only tests speed to SA's main centres.

 

[Happy Days]

Nah, it's not an outage - they just don't peer for free anymore, even on their subsea cable!

 

[freematrix]

Justice Served!
Proudly do not use Seacom!

 

[MisterV]

Goodness, they changed their peering policy, hurting not only them but everyone they used to do business with. And now to no surprise their services go down. Not to mention how many times it has gone down before. ISP's and businesses should get out while they can. Seacom should alter its ways, i dont see anything good for them in the future

 

[Pythonista]

Schadenfreude - Wikipedia

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[Y'all Qaeda]

Bet you those people paying for the privilege of peering with Seacom are smiling with their premium experience.