Slow internet connection speeds due to damaged submarine cable near Taiwan

[eErotica69]

SINGAPORE : Internet connection speeds are down for some online users in Singapore on Wednesday.

Service providers SingTel and StarHub attributed the slowdown to a damaged submarine cable system near Taiwan.

SingTel said the damage was caused by Typhoon Morakot, which swept through Taiwan over the weekend.

Customers may experience slow Internet access to some US websites.

Both internet service providers said restoration works have started and its engineers are diverting online traffic to other cable systems.

SingTel expects the situation to return to acceptable levels within the next 24 hours. - CNA /ls


http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/448440/1/.html


No wonder my access to this forum is so slow today!!

:(

 

[Watchman]

Authorities failed to lay redundant lines !

 

[TeeKee]

SingTel said the damage was caused by Typhoon Morakot, which swept through Taiwan over the weekend.

wah this Morakot is damn solid, can go underwater and damage the cables few km deep....

 

[red amoeba]

WTF, slow internet connection go blame typhoon hitting Taiwan...? You mean Starhub and Singnet don't own a submarine cable linking Singapore to US direct>? Must go through Taiwan? Why? No landing right? KNS

Like that very good leh, poor service then go blame here blame there except oneself.

 

[2lanu]

WTF, slow internet connection go blame typhoon hitting Taiwan...? You mean Starhub and Singnet don't own a submarine cable linking Singapore to US direct>? Must go through Taiwan? Why? No landing right? KNS

Like that very good leh, poor service then go blame here blame there except oneself.

As usual they followed their white scum master. Whenever things are good, it's "Me, me and me!" and claim they deserved to be paid millions$.

But if things are not right, they blame it on external factors etc...

 

[wikiphile]

WTF, slow internet connection go blame typhoon hitting Taiwan...? You mean Starhub and Singnet don't own a submarine cable linking Singapore to US direct>? Must go through Taiwan? Why? No landing right? KNS

Like that very good leh, poor service then go blame here blame there except oneself.

Taiwan is the internet gateway from Asia to The States. Why not a direct line from Singapore to US? You pay for it lor!

 

[2lanu]

Taiwan is the internet gateway from Asia to The States. Why not a direct line from Singapore to US? You pay for it lor!

If GIC and Temasick did not lost 260B, they could have lay the line around the globe now!

 

[Perspective]

Singtel has already been producing slow speed connections even without the submarine issue. Users around me uniformly complain about Singtel but nearly never with those using Starhub. It couldn't have been a coincidence.

 

[Snipeshot08]

Authorities failed to lay redundant lines !

Actually this word for the technical redundancy is kind of an oxy-moron :p why lay something which is redundant aka needless, useless, not required....

 

[2lanu]

Singtel has already been producing slow speed connections even without the submarine issue. Users around me uniformly complain about Singtel but nearly never with those using Starhub. It couldn't have been a coincidence.

I am using Starhub and I can said that the line service is getting worse. There are intermittent disconnection. :oIo:

 

[angie]

How come pple using broadband & 3G phones have complaints when i am using dial up & Nokia 8850 have no complaints?


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