Internet slows down after Japan earthquake

woah it takes 1 min to open a website..

Sobrang bagal net sa bahay. Eto pala ang cause. Using smart bro here. Sana maayos na kasi miss ko na yung download speed na 50kilobytespersecond+.

I agree with Beeps (45). I understand that its an undersea cable and it is not that easy to fix. We should really be grateful that we still have Internet (I use PLDT myDSL). Let’s just hope na this won’t take long to fix, I can’t surf 20 tabs and watch videos with this speed :D

hehe @magvolunteernga

Bossing, not really that easy to get this fiber break fix. really requires a lot of them on restoring the loss of service and it depends into what extent is the fiber break. Well i hope its not that serious otherwise this might take a bit long.

LOL @magvolunteernga

Well, if some huge block of stone fell there really is a possibility that those huge cables will break or at least get damaged :p And if it is undersea, well, I don’t think we can move any faster hehe.

Globe Innove/Broadband heavily affected as well. I use Globe Innove ;) It actually went down for 3 hours :p as in no Internet…

Comcast and Eastern Telecoms according to some friends were also heavily affected.

Oh, goody. We just signed up for PLDT DSL.

when things start working normally, repair works are underway they say, I think it should be done today or tomorrow. What would do without internet, I guess a lot of coffeeshops will close and people will have nothing to do and go back to watching tv

our connection here not just slow down, but some of the sites are also Access Denied! maybe eto nga yung prob, not sure

whatever their lame excuse is, they have to fix the problem FAST!

They have tons of subscribers suffering because of whatever lame excuse they have!

probably was faster in the morning due to less internet users, theyre probably on limited bandwith now and are trying to redirect it, doesnt look like its getting much better. i notice browsing with 4 windows is hard now, but browsing with 1 window works, so seems my bandwith or connections is being limited.

just wondering if we have a local network of sites that can be accessed without leaving the country, incase these things go down which sites will still be fast and accessible? like a country network.

or else its back to the BBS’s and playing dragons quest…

the problem lang din with smart bro, noontime until mga hapon maxado nang mabagal…. sigh…

kakaunti lang globe broadband dito, kaya siguro ok pa ang connection unlike cebu kung saan globe broadband is hated.. kasi super bagal daw.

Buti na lang smart bro ayus-ayus pa ngayun.

Pati ba br0wsing thru f0ne!? It’s kinda iritating kasi,mula pa kahap0n sl0w as slug ang c0nnecti0n with gl0be. Still n0 impr0vement until t0day.

APCN2 Faults:

#1: Singapore-Malaysia Fault = Repair is estimated to be completed on August 14, 2009

#2: China-Taiwan Fault = cable fault occurred this morning at 10:45 am;

= APCN2 consortium is now trying to implement the APCN2 catastrophic plan for dual failure in these segments

= APCN2 NOC is now doing the mapping and manual patching in concerned stations; hopefully some of our circuits will be restored very soon

affected din ba ang mga broadbands because of this? i’m using sun broadband kasi. di ko alam tuloy kung ano cause ng pagbagal ng connecton ko, kung yung sa “capping” ba ng sun or etong nangyari sa japan. pero ngayong umaga, ok ok naman yung connection ko kahit papano unlike kagabi. argh! daig ko pa naka dial-up sa connection ko kagabi. ang bagal talaga.

Kaya pala bagal ng streaming kanina, pero sa speedtest OK naman,

Nagpapadala na ata sila ng barko to determine the fault line at para ayosin yun.. (Bagal lumangoy mga barko ngaun so just wait for about a week??)

Hehehe..

parang slow din ang Globe Broadband. thanks for this info though.

able to talk to a csr after waiting for such a looong time . . . told me that there is currently an installation going on. i asked, “at this hour?!” then she went on to say another reason, system restoration daw. such lame excuses, such LIARS

So that’s why some sites were so slow. I thought it was just my connection acting up again. Wait, I’ve had this problem since yesterday so how…

Last time under sea cables were broken like 2 years ago, it took like 6 months to fix. I hope it’s quicker this time!

oh that’s the reason why our mydsl was really slow and sites were not really loading completely. im still on my way home and i hope the connections will be fixed as soon as possible.

Whatever the cause is, they should work on it and fix this as soon as possible.

3 cable systems are cut, EAC/SMW3 was cut monday, APCN2 was cut today, the 3 suffered double breaks (active and protection path).

No relation to the earthquake at all, kase it happened hours after the earthquake.

yeah we feel that today in the office. good thing we have a second provider which is etpi. IT just switched off the pldt modem from the proxy server, then we’re ok.

abe, i don’t think it’s the quake. typhoon daw yung cause.