SEACOM problems: How you are affected

Have you been affected by the SEACOM outage?

  • Yes

    Votes: 210 81.4%

  • No

    Votes: 48 18.6%
  • Total voters
    258
Haha, My Webafrica account on 384k is downloading from steam at 60KB/s.

The break has improved download speeds somehow. :confused:
 
ChilliGirl said:
Not even my email is DL'ing at the moment :( neverming international...
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Yea, mweb are shaping everything except HTTP. So you can browse the net fine, but cant even view email. Its stupid.
 
Alastairo said:
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 ?
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Yes, add an entry for those servers pointing to 127.0.0.1 in your hosts file.
 
I'm with Openweb (platinum, so they say) ... we're supposed to have backup bandwidth on SAT3 but my international went down around 9am this morning, came up briefly around lunch time then went back down. Was expecting it to come up after 5 or 6pm but no such luck. Can't go on like this ... my mail server is in USA.
I phone tech support but he seemed surprised I was having problems ... which surprised me since I'm sure everyone and his dog was complaining ...
 
I need my connection, but work is slow thanks to the WC. :)
*cough* day off! *cough*
 
“Our hosting infrastructure at IS makes use of SAT-3/SAFE. Clients need to set-up this proxy in their browser of choice. This connectivity is through a smaller bandwidth pipe and as such international access speeds will be much slower than our usual speeds. However, it does enable our clients to have full access to most international sites and services albeit at a slower speed,” explains Afrihost CEO Gian Visser.
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Does anybody know what the proxy is?
 
Openweb Gold is totally NO P2P atm, however I am happy that all browsing are fine, a bit slow but working, so I can't imagine the platinum pple having trouble.
 
Wonder why this article fails to mention Web Africa, surely they're big enough to mention
 
webafrica say something plz who do they run through saix or seacom
 
blunt said:
The article points out ISP's that are not affected -- which should include WA, just seemed odd.
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As moggie pointed out Web Africa and Telkom Internet (and SAIX resellers) use only SAT-3/SAFE bandwidth, so they are not affected. The guys in the article all use both SEACOM and SAIX...
 
RoloTomasi said:
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.
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If I used Web Africa I'd be paying FAR more than a "little" more. I'd take these outages over a cap any day, as frustrating as they may be.
 
rpm said:
As moggie pointed out Web Africa and Telkom Internet (and SAIX resellers) use only SAT-3/SAFE bandwidth, so they are not affected. The guys in the article all use both SEACOM and SAIX...
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Do I win a noddy badge? :twisted::D
 
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