WACS and SAT-3 suffer cable breaks between Congo and Cameroon

[Jan]

Slow Internet speeds in South Africa — break in undersea cables

The West African Cable System (WACS) and the South Atlantic 3 (SAT–3) undersea cables have experienced breaks impacting connectivity to South Africa, MyBroadband has learned.

Two well-placed sources who asked not to be identified because they aren’t authorised to speak to media provided details about the incident.

 

[DapperDanMan]

Two well-placed sources who asked not to be identified because they aren’t authorised to speak

Sounds like they're well-adjusted persons also!

impacting connectivity to South Africa

Since yesterday? Or when?

Edit: I see at least one of the cables went down yesterday morning.

 

[Kyoto]

Who cares 90% of what I do stays in SA

 

[borro]

Who cares 90% of what I do stays in SA

Curb your narcissism

 

[Raphael123]

Bit of unexpected latency yesterday evening but everything moving along.

 

[DawieZA]

FYI, Mombasa is in Kenya and not India.

 

[SlowInternet]

Slow Internet speeds in South Africa .............​

I never speed, I keep to the speed limit

 

[GoneWithTheWindows]

Who cares 90% of what I do stays in SA

Who gives a **** about what you do.

 

[Hanno Labuschagne]

FYI, Mombasa is in Kenya and not India.

Thanks, we've corrected it.

 

[lkswan747]

FYI, Mombasa is in Kenya and not India.

Mumbai is in India.

 

[r00igev@@r]

Zama zamas

 

[Cranjus McBasketball]

Zama zamas

They've gone amphibious

 

[Scooby_Doo]

Have you guys noticed anything speed wise? Still seems okay.

 

[Progenix Oj101]

I'm having major issues connecting to anyone who uses CloudFlare. Ironically, it's taken EliteHost's site down but mine (which is hosted with EH) is up xD

 

[bruce_the_loon]

Have you guys noticed anything speed wise? Still seems okay.

Last night around 11pm my Afrihost connection kept pausing videos and breaking web pages halfway through. This morning before 8am it was patchy at best. Much better this evening. Thought it was load-shedding on the fiber nodes, timing seemed right for that at the time.

 

[Scooby_Doo]

Last night around 11pm my Afrihost connection kept pausing videos and breaking web pages halfway through. This morning before 8am it was patchy at best. Much better this evening. Thought it was load-shedding on the fiber nodes, timing seemed right for that at the time.

10 maybe 15 years ago this would have been the end of the internet in SA. I am sure there is a free thread necro of a few times we had this if the necro people want to actually necro something relvant.

 

[LCBXX]

Anyone got tests or similar which can be run to see the impact of the breaks?

 

[AfriNatic]

Last night around 11pm my Afrihost connection kept pausing videos and breaking web pages halfway through. This morning before 8am it was patchy at best. Much better this evening. Thought it was load-shedding on the fiber nodes, timing seemed right for that at the time.

Hi

At 8:45 am this morning we decided to remove one of the transit providers that doesn't have enough capacity on alternative cables as it was causing quite a bit of packet loss. After that change, things are looking much better all around albeit with the higher latency.

 

[DapperDanMan]

Anyone got tests or similar which can be run to see the impact of the breaks?

Yeah ... just open YouTube/YouPorn ..

 

[Scooby_Doo]

Okay, starting to notice it now.