{"id":81207,"date":"2013-06-27T14:29:16","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T12:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=81207"},"modified":"2013-06-27T15:59:10","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T13:59:10","slug":"mweb-adsl-seacom-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/adsl\/81207-mweb-adsl-seacom-problems.html","title":{"rendered":"MWEB ADSL Seacom problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"MWEB\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/226947-MWeb\">MWEB<\/a> has informed its ADSL subscribers that their international bandwidth via <a title=\"Seacom\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/227005-SEACOM\">Seacom<\/a> is affected as a result of multiple local fibre breaks.<\/p>\n<p>The problems seem to have started shortly after 13:00 on Thursday 27 June, with MWEB ADSL subscribers reporting slow international browsing and high packet loss to international servers.<\/p>\n<p>MWEB said that the Seacom system is to blame, adding that technicians are attending to these problems.<\/p>\n<p>MWEB ISP CEO Derek Hershaw explained that both their South African backhaul providers experienced cable breaks, which is to blame for the Seacom problems.<\/p>\n<p>MWEB is diverting all international traffic via WACS (<a title=\"West Africa Cable System\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/355686-WACS-(West-Africa-Cable-System)\">West Africa Cable System<\/a>).<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on ADSL<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/adsl\/80927-slow-mweb-adsl-reported.html\">Slow Mweb ADSL reported<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/adsl\/80819-adsl-downtime-across-south-africa-reported-again.html\">ADSL downtime across South Africa reported again<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/adsl\/79593-what-sas-adsl-users-do-on-the-internet.html\">What SA\u2019s ADSL users do on the Internet<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/adsl\/79783-telkom-adsl-outage-explained.html\">Telkom ADSL outage explained<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/adsl\/79569-adsl-and-p2p-traffic-in-sa.html\">ADSL and P2P traffic in SA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multiple South African fibre breaks are affecting MWEB\u2019s Seacom international bandwidth, causing slow international ADSL access<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":74086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[71,35,213,317],"class_list":["post-81207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adsl","tag-adsl-2","tag-headline","tag-mweb","tag-seacom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81207"}],"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=81207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81209,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81207\/revisions\/81209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}