WACS repair successful

[Jan]

Good news for slow Internet in South Africa

A break in the West Africa Cable System (Wacs) off the coast of Congo has been repaired several days ahead of initial estimates, MyBroadband has learned.

A suspected rockfall in the Congo Canyon on 6 August caused separate breaks on Wacs and Telkom’s South Atlantic 3 (Sat–3) cables.

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

yet there is only 1 Ship that can repair these cables,

 

[BBSA]

Just in time for the World Cup

 

[now05ster]

Thanks Jade.

 

[Vorastra]

@AfriNatic does this really mean anything at this point? I assume every ISP was on a contingency by now.

 

[Athos]

Jade is the real MVP.

 

[airborne]

@AfriNatic does this really mean anything at this point? I assume every ISP was on a contingency by now.

Nope, MTN is often still or was unusable without Warp enabled

 

[bruce_the_loon]

yet there is only 1 Ship that can repair these cables,

There seem to be only 60 ships globally that can lay cables, some of those are not deep water ships and others are intended for power cables and not optical.

Given these breaks are pretty infrequent, we're probably lucky to have one stationed in Cape Town at all.

 

[mpdjhb]

Ahead of schedule - need to send one of these to Megawatt Park

 

[DapperDanMan]

Wacs cable to be returned to service on Wednesday - TechCentral

Telkom’s infrastructure subsidiary, Openserve, said repairs to two broken subsea cables are under way.

techcentral.co.za

WACS works.

SAT-3 still down.

 

[r00igev@@r]

yet there is only 1 Ship that can repair these cables,

Better than Eskom who has fokol to repair power stations. Not even the highly acclaimed project manger going by the handle of Minister of Lektrishitty.

 

[r00igev@@r]

No more excuses for slow Internet.

 

[Afrigirl]

@AfriNatic does this really mean anything at this point? I assume every ISP was on a contingency by now.

Hi.

Our Equiano route will remain the same; however, we may slowly reintroduce WASC. To make use of all our available capacity.

If anyone experiences changes for the worse, please let us know. You can provide a ping plotter or traceroute results, and we can talk with the team if we need to re-engineer our routes for the best interest of our clients.

 

[Stevewarren]

Anyone getting local ping to discord yet ?

 

[DapperDanMan]

WASC

New cable?!?!? Whoooohooooo!!!

 

[DapperDanMan]

No more excuses for slow Internet.

Indeed.

SAT-3 undersea cable break repaired

Broken undersea cables slowing down South Africa's Internet repaired Telkom’s wholesale and networks division Openserve has announced that the South Atlantic 3 (SAT–3) undersea cable has been repaired and connectivity restored. SAT–3 was the last of three cables to be repaired that suffered...

mybroadband.co.za