Slow Internet speeds for South Africans caused by cable outage

[Bradley Prior]

Slow Internet speeds for South Africans caused by cable outage

Many South African Internet users are currently experiencing slow speeds when connecting to international websites.

This is due to the West Africa Cable System (WACS) and South Atlantic 3 (SAT3) international links being reportedly down, which affects customers of numerous South African ISPs.

 

[biometrics]

Guess that explains why Telkom LTE international is practically dead.

Might as well go to the brewery for a beer...

 

[CAPS LOCK]

Guess that explains why Telkom LTE international is practically dead.

Might as well go to the brewery for a beer...

This.

Oddly though, DL 0.26 UL 17.6 Mbps

 

[threegee]

Slow Internet speeds for South Africans caused by cable outage

Many South African Internet users are currently experiencing slow speeds when connecting to international websites.

This is due to the West Africa Cable System (WACS) and South Atlantic 3 (SAT3) international links being reportedly down, which affects customers of numerous South African ISPs.

Firstly, it took you only 4 and a half hours to publish what is actually news that you're all about and news that's important to us and been known about since 10am.

Care to respond? > https://mybroadband.co.za/forum/threads/breaking-it-and-tech-news-trusted-in-tech.1065102/

Secondly .... define slow. Because it is not slow it is barely unusable and rated as High Impact on just about every ISP's network status page.

15-25 minutes to download a 3mb jpeg file is not slow ....its broken.
2-5 minutes to save a < 3kb text file in webmin on a server in the US is not slow .... its broken.

9600 bps modems (yeah I been around that long) were not as bad as what we are experiencing today.

 

[Bryn]

Firstly, it took you only 4 and a half hours to publish what is actually news that you're all about and news that's important to us and been known about since 10am.

Care to respond? > https://mybroadband.co.za/forum/threads/breaking-it-and-tech-news-trusted-in-tech.1065102/

Secondly .... define slow. Because it is not slow it is barely unusable and rated as High Impact on just about every ISP's network status page.

15-25 minutes to download a 3mb jpeg file is not slow ....its broken.
2-5 minutes to save a < 3kb text file in webmin on a server in the US is not slow .... its broken.

9600 bps modems (yeah I been around that long) were not as bad as what we are experiencing today.

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International is usable to me. I'm on Afrihost Pure Fibre, Openserve. It's slower than usual, but everything is accessible.

 

[SaiyanZ]

Yeah been slow and laggy on some sites since around 11am for me.

 

[threegee]

International is usable to me. I'm on Afrihost Pure Fibre, Openserve. It's slower than usual, but everything is accessible.

I am also on Afrihost fibre and been battling since it started at 10am as are many people check the many tweets to them and the status of their network status page.

 

[R4ziel]

Just tested on my home PC, Telkom LTE and Rain is not slower than they normally are to international sites / services

 

[PhireSide]

Getting timeouts while trying to install Docker on my Pi, so I guess it will have to wait

 

[threegee]

International is usable to me. I'm on Afrihost Pure Fibre, Openserve. It's slower than usual, but everything is accessible.

 

[biometrics]

Just tested on my home PC, Telkom LTE and Rain is not slower than they normally are to international sites / services

I'm on Telkom LTE load balanced over 1800 Mhz and 2300 MHz. I could not get more than 2 KB/s from our London based Rackspace servers.

In the Cape though.

 

[Gaz{M}]

Full speed here in Centurion on Telkom LTE (32 Mbps download speeds). Watching Youtube no problems.

 

[scud]

Cable theft again , by damn pirates

 

[R4ziel]

I'm on Telkom LTE load balanced over 1800 Mhz and 2300 MHz. I could not get more than 2 KB/s from our London based Rackspace servers.

In the Cape though.

Tested now to a London based VPS, transfer speeds seem slower, but not enough to call it broken or extremely slow, not sure where the actual fault it, but it seems its not affecting everyone universally

 

[biometrics]

Tested now to a London based VPS, transfer speeds seem slower, but not enough to call it broken or extremely slow, not sure where the actual fault it, but it seems its not affecting everyone universally

Guess us in the Cape would have used WACS as it's primary cable being on the west coast...

 

[wingnut771]

Full speed here in Centurion on Telkom LTE (32 Mbps download speeds). Watching Youtube no problems.

local isn't the problem, international is.

 

[Bryn]

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Mine is also slowly obviously, but it's usable for getting work done on a US server:

 

[biometrics]

From the Cape to London:



https://www.speedtest.net/my-result/a/5661734794

 

[threegee]

Mine is also slowly obviously, but it's usable for getting work done on a US server:

Not fair Bryn, you have 2-4 times my speed even SSH is a total nightmare at <0.5 speeds

 

[threegee]

Full speed here in Centurion on Telkom LTE (32 Mbps download speeds). Watching Youtube no problems.

Lucky you, Telkom must be routing some traffic through another route