Philippines Internet SLowdown ---damaged undersea cable?

[oisilener1982]

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Daghan karon ang hinay ug internet. Confirmed halos tanan globe, pldt and bayantel users

A cut in the Asia-Pacific Cable Network 2 (APCN2) undersea submarine cable crippled connection speeds for users in the Asia-Pacific region on Wednesday, particularly in Singapore and the Philippines.

Users were sending updates to local forums and Twitter, complaining of slow connection speeds to sites hosted outside of the region.

According to a notice sent by Malaysian telco, TM Net, the cable fault was traced to segment 7 of the APCN2, which stretches between Shantou, China and Tanshui, Taiwan. TM Net traced the outage to Typhoon Morakot, which hit the region over the weekend.

Additionally, segment 1 of the APCN2 is also currently under repair. Repairs on segment 7 are expected to commence after work on segment 1 is completed.

Internet connection speeds are expected to return to normal late evening Aug. 13, according to the advisory.

Singapore operator, SingTel, confirmed the cable fault in an e-mail to ZDNet Asia, saying that customers can expect to face high latency as a result. It added that its STIX (SingTel Internet Exchange) Internet backbone provider is working on rectifying the issue.

A status update posted on InternetTrafficReport.com showed SingTel's Singapore gateway registered a score of only 34 points, compared to the global average "health" of network connections, which was 86 points as at 3pm Singapore time on Wednesday.

The site first started registering increased response time and packet loss in Singapore at 8pm Tuesday evening.

[graveyard666]

PLDT user here. confirmed hinay pud kayo... ahaksz

[handsoff241]

omg! nooooo!

[r0mm3L]

last time nahitabo ni is katong pag 2006 earth quake sa taiwan

[softtouch]

As I wrote in the PLDT thread, a N4I Gateway Router is down since this morning. Don't panic!

[kobmat]

Is there a sea between Malaysia and China? Cause if im going to be practical.. to build a connection between the two countries i will just go through thailand, but thats just me...

[darkwing]

oh noes! hinay gyud kaayo

[Warnok]

hinay ayo internet here....tsk tsk

[oisilener1982]

Is there a sea between Malaysia and China? Cause if im going to practical.. to build a connection between the two country i will just go through thailand, but thats just me...

1. Kung sa perfect world, tama ka. Pero in reality hindi po practical kung dadaan sa thailand primarily dahil sa unstable political situation doon.
2. Di po ako sure kung may undersea cable between malaysia and china pero yun ang sabi ng isang forumer sa pinoydsl.net

[sanlinux]

hinay ako connection dri...I'm Globe user.

Huh! Hinay sad kaau ang Farm Town...lol