How’s your internet today?

I’m using www.meebo.com for my YM needs…

Looks like its almost fixed to me:

http://digg.com/tech_news/Photos_Single_Internet_straw_breaks_No_Internet_access_for_Asia/blog

Here in the office all lines are down. Globe, Bayantel and PLDT. Voice and Data.. so we’re paralyzed!

Kaya pala I couldn’t receive & send emails to Singapore. Ang bagal din ng Wiz last night.

call centers were paralyzed because of this event

here, I waited for 5 hours before the BayanDSL was back. Kaya ginawa ko, naglaro na lang ako ng Red Alert 2 the whole afternoon

It’s much better now compared to yesterday. Am currently on Bayantel DSL but I still get stuck on some sites. But imagine taking half an hour to grab firefox!

This made me think about maintaining a free-based mail. I couldn’t access my emails much more post on my blog. Though I was able to post one today, but after so much prayer that it won’t stall.

I guess the vulnerability of our connection here in the Region really needs some thinking as what was pointed out in the Inquirer.net article. We’re still having trouble here in Thailand and as the news say it might take weeks before they are able to restore the cables under the sea!

mine, is quite sluggish since yesterday (hmm isnt bayantel is using some asian corp for their internet)… now i can dl anything that fast…

Until now as I’m blogging this one, took me 10 mins. to open this site..wtf… and damn 3 weeks of restoration? huh… my internet cafe would be dead at that time .. :)

It is estimated that up to one million jobs could be lost as an affect of this loss in internet.
The talk at the weekend of most foreign business men in Makati was not how are they going to survive with little or no internet it was what country they are moving their business to.
All seemed to be of the same voice what the hell is being done? Seems like nothing. When will it be back to normal? After 9 days PLDT won’t tell them.
Why is the Government not involved? Do they think internet is just for games?
Does anyone care that they are not providing internet?

Talking to a Group that included Americans, Germans and British. They all agreed if this happened any where else the government of the country would call a State of Emergency.

It was also very interesting to hear that PLDT was offered help from one of the worlds leading internet providers, to get the Philippines back to normal with in 36 hours. At no cost to PLDT.
PLDT refused the help WHY? Could they be scared that the Philippines people would see how well a foreign company could run the internet? Could it be it would have been faster and more stable?
Would it mean Filipino’s might demand a change in law to let foreign competition in and stop this monopoly
What ever it is the fact remains the problem could have been fixed by Friday and 1 million Jobs could have been saved.

It is really sad what has happened with our internet connection. We have a webhosting company and really. . . it takes over night to download all the support emails. We are getting more than one thousand emails (spam and support and inquiries) a day! IMAGINE…. how long we have to wait!?

I agree with what Paul said from this discussion. Let the foreign company help us in restoring our internet connection. LET US FACE IT!!! WE REALLY NEED HELP NOW……

its almost 15days already when that earthquake hit taiwan but i never experience any improvement at all. Damned i am losing a lot since i earned my way of living abroad, i cant get through to connect some of my clients.

its so crap…. crap crap…,

Let’s face it: as long as the call centers run fine, this government doesn’t give a crap about the Internet.