{"id":70566,"date":"2013-02-14T14:53:57","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T12:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=70566"},"modified":"2013-02-15T08:13:59","modified_gmt":"2013-02-15T06:13:59","slug":"slow-browsing-seacom-is-down-reports-mweb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/70566-slow-browsing-seacom-is-down-reports-mweb.html","title":{"rendered":"Slow browsing? Seacom is down, reports Mweb"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mweb<\/a> is reporting that the international connectivity of its customers has been impacted due to a Seacom<\/a> link failure, but the effects have been minimised as traffic has already been rerouted.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are running on alternative WACS<\/a> capacity,\u201d Mweb said in a statement posted to Facebook.<\/p>\n

“Please note that we are not at full capacity and shaping on non-priority traffic will be in effect,” Mweb said.<\/p>\n

The service provider said that its engineers are currently looking into the outage.<\/p>\n

Seacom reported on its website that it experienced a “multiple terrestrial outage” on both its Egypt routes at 11:59 GMT.<\/p>\n

“Repair teams have been mobilized,” Seacom said. “ETR [estimated time to repair] will be published shortly. This is affecting our European routes.\u00a0Updates will follow in 30 minutes.”<\/p>\n

Updates from Seacom:<\/strong><\/p>\n

13:12 GMT:Advice from our service provider in Egypt is that ETR is 4 hours from now. The location of the first repair site has been identified 15 km outside of Alexandra and repair teams are enroute.<\/p>\n

14:15 GMT: Repair teams are enroute [sic].<\/p>\n

14:51 GMT:\u00a0Repair team is on site for the first repair. Outage on this route was caused by a fire.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

More Seacom and international downtime news<\/h3>\n

Seacom\u2019s Aidan Baigrie steps down<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

SEACOM boosts reliability with second Egypt route<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

International ADSL affected by cable break<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

EASSy problems resolved<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mweb is reporting slow international browsing and email due to a Seacom link failure<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":31716,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[35,213,317,5566],"class_list":["post-70566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadband","tag-headline","tag-mweb","tag-seacom","tag-seacom-downtime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70566"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70568,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70566\/revisions\/70568"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}