Slow international traffic

[PBCool]

Guess the protection commercials didn't make sense to SA university networks which is understandable since EASSy and Equiano gets the job done for the most part.

Expensive running on two undersea cables to connect to a 3rd

 

[Jan]

WACS offline for emergency maintenance

Some Internet users in South Africa are reporting slow speeds after repairs to the West Africa Cable System (WACS) started on Sunday.

WACS is one of the key submarine fibre cables carrying Internet traffic from Europe to South Africa. It is also a key link between South Africa and the South Atlantic Cable System, which lands in Angola.

 

[acidrain]

I hope ISP's are making plans. 16 June ETA is a bit long down the line.

 

[PBCool]

WACS offline for emergency maintenance

Some Internet users in South Africa are reporting slow speeds after repairs to the West Africa Cable System (WACS) started on Sunday.

WACS is one of the key submarine fibre cables carrying Internet traffic from Europe to South Africa. It is also a key link between South Africa and the South Atlantic Cable System, which lands in Angola.

Couldn't resist in the end Jan

 

[PBCool]

I hope ISP's are making plans. 16 June ETA is a bit long down the line.

ISPs should have made alternative plans by now.

 

[system32]

4:19pm GMT = 18:19 SAST

Last few days international on MWEB has been very slow... unusable!

 

[Lupus]

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Last few days international on MWEB has been very slow...

Probably due to the maintenance being done on wacs

 

[Xtm]

"Submarine and terrestrial network capacity consultant Roderick Beck has said that unless there are unforeseen problems, it is likely the cable will be back in service by Sunday"

 

[Quicks]

Well if only we had a backup? Like Starlink... But BEE and ANC agenda is more important than anything else.

 

[Pegging]

My cool ideas has been done for a few hours now.

 

[acidrain]

ISPs should have made alternative plans by now.

Apparently not those on NTT.

Can't even bare to leave my blender download running. It just feels wrong at 15kb/s

 

[PBCool]

Apparently not those on NTT.

Can't even bare to leave my blender download running. It just feels wrong at 15kb/s

Who's your FNO, can pop you a temp account if Openserve?

 

[Segg]

Interesting how this is affecting NTT so badly

Vox SA to NTT London Test 1

Test 2

MTN London

 

[acidrain]

Who's your FNO, can pop you a temp account if Openserve?

Sadly VUMA, but you are a massive champ for offering.

Edit: Fired up my VPN, connected to Angola for the lol's and got 8MB/s on my blender download. So at least I have a workaround DD's routing

 

[Vorastra]

Can this somehow cause MFN PON to be down somehow or is this just a coincidental timing for my place?

Getting a red pin light.

 

[fragtion]

Apart from mybroadband there has been very little coverage about this outage thus far, so the article is welcome and informative. Atomic's dashboard (there may be others..) is tracking the outage

 

[Fulcrum29]

The internet is properly borked tonight. Not only is international erratic, but some authentications (security credentials) are also up/down.

 

[Xtm]

Openserve has other options like SAT-3, Equiano for international routing. Putting traffic on those might result congestion and slow down.

 

[PBCool]

Openserve has other options like SAT-3, Equiano for international routing. Putting traffic on those might result congestion and slow down.

You mean Telkom, the ISP portion?

 

[PBCool]

Can this somehow cause MFN PON to be down somehow or is this just a coincidental timing for my place?

Getting a red pin light.

No that would be unrelated.