SEACOM problems: How you are affected

[rpm]

SEACOM downtime: How you are affected

ISPs report back on what they are doing to overcome the prolonged SEACOM downtime and how you are affected

 

[afrodeity]

This comes just as the West Africa Main One cable is launched. Opportunity for providers to peer with their African counterparts.

 

[nasa]

Do newer cables always have these "teething" issues? Was anyone around when SAT-3 and other older lines were launched?

 

[RoloTomasi]

When WACS and EASSy come online, these sort of problems will be less significant due to the redundancy these cables will provide.
In the meantime, ISPs like WebAfrica must be laughing all the way, considering that everyone knocked them a few months ago, but since they don't use SEACOM they have been completely unaffected by the outages the last year. Reliability counts for something, even if have to pay a little more.

 

[DarkStreet]

I switched to WebAfrica prepaid this morning. Best idea ever.

What cable do they use? The guy told me IPC :erm:

 

[rpm]

WACS - and hopefully also Main One - will provide redundancy similar to SAT-3 & SAFE.

 

[I am Penguin]

My Telkom service is fine. My backup Engen prepaid Axxess is affected. According to Axxess technical their on site Saix prepaid should be fine.

 

[duncan1a]

I'm with webafrica - no problems

 

[darryn]

i got 0 international atm mweb

 

[pottytalk]

telkom side i got no problems.mweb sides i gots the problems bigtimes

 

[murraybiscuit]

with wa and afrihost.
no issues here.

EDIT: i see my afrihost has gone for a loop...

 

[lordnokon]

just another day in Africa

 

[foX2delta]

i got 0 international atm mweb

Same

But article does state they lost the SAT3 bandwidth

 

[Wag]

With Mweb, shlt happens.

 

[foX2delta]

Overall I really understand the outages, they have been mostly neotel and pretty small, and perhaps not so bad since they got bandwidth from SAT3 however with the World Cup it all seems very different. Although I am not dying (yet), I think I will start to die a slow death I fear, AN LESS something is done!

PLs MWEB I couldn't give a rats ASS about p2p currently, just simple (slow is ok) browsing please.

 

[PeterCH]

Good news is that MWEB seems to have secured bandwidth on SAFE to complement its existing bandwidth through Telkom SAIX wholesale (hence SAT-3/SAFE).

I don't understand this, first SAIX boots them off, now they let them back on.

 

[ingeon]

Did Seacom use cheap crappy repeaters or does it have something to do with
the cables settling on the ocean floor.

Thank goodness for myBB (and local content/servers), they still have news sometimes worth knowing

 

[Alastairo]

Why is it that SA news sites use a German ad servers that stop us getting to the local news. Is there any work around for this problem ?

 

[TheGuy]

Did Seacom use cheap crappy repeaters or does it have something to do with
the cables settling on the ocean floor.

Thank goodness for myBB (and local content/servers), they still have news sometimes worth knowing

IT hardware like switches and stuff either break in the first couple of months or it lasts 5 years.

 

[F1ve_Claw]

On PLuGG (IS) and got 0 international connection but local is flyin