Internet connectivity has slowed to a crawl today as undersea cable were affected by the recent earthquake in Japan.
Reports from ComputerWorld indicates the Philippines is one of the affected countries:
At about 10:50 a.m. on Wednesday, local time, an alarm signaled a cable fault on Segment 7 of APCN2, which connects Hong Kong and Shantou, China. The disruption caused a temporary loss of service on the undersea link but all customers that use the cable were soon shifted to capacity on other cables, according to a source familiar with the situation.
The APCN2 cable is owned by a consortium of 26 telecom operators from 14 different countries. The cable links Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Taiwan, China, South Korea and Japan.
Looks like PLDT is the most heavily affected. Some sites appear down as DNS routing are not resolving.
woah it takes 1 min to open a website..
di kasi natuloy ang zte eh sayang
oo putanginang mike arroyo at GMA kc yan kurakot mxdo tanginang mike yan ilang beses na na ICU d pa mamatay matay tangina nya pati buong ankan nya puro kurakot
noooooooo!!!
T_______________T kea pala ang bagal ng net!
Wew ganito rin sabi sa hotline ng pldt answering machine na nga lang sumasagot sana maayos agad.
such a lame excuses.. Pgdating tlaga sa mga cust0mer service ang bagal kumil0s.. Buti pa kau khit isang tab nakakabukas aq wla khit isa.. Per0 pg ut0rrent gmt q umab0t pa ng 100kbs/sec ang download… hope d connection will b back tom.. Dem pldt.. Mabilis pa ph0ne q mgload sa knila..
i see, kya pla since aug 12 pa ang bgal na ng net ko. as in MABAGAL, daig pa ng dial up, btw im using PLDT myDSL and the DL speed is from 1kbps to 5 LOL! xD
pero sa online games ok naman
typhoon morakot (kiko) is the reason, not an earthquake. it’s too far to affect the cables which are in between china and taiwan.
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/170126/typhoon_morakot_severs_three_undersea_internet_cables.html
Twitter: mponteres
says:
Do you have any formal communication from PLDT that they are affected?
Twitter: jdGONEMAD
says:
Marshall Law na!!!!!!!!!! waaaaaaa ….
are we ok nah? it seems ok na ung net connection ko.. which i really hope na hindi na babalik sa prehistoric times na sobrang bagal…
kaya pala..
Twitter: mangochico
says:
You can keep up to date with the status of the internet slowdown in the Philippines over here:
http://www.mangochico.com/snail-paced-internet/
Twitter: laibcoms
says:
I can report that Globe Innove/Broadband Makati are is back to normal (*ehemm* 1/3 only of your paid speed is normal for us :p )
Tawagin nyo na si Aquaman
MyDestiny seems to be back on track already. It was absolutely horrible for the past 2 days.
Twitter: rbsoriano
says:
Internet speed is back on track!
mine is still slow. i’m using sun broadband.
Yehey! I’ts back to normal na.
thanks naman at bumalik na.
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Buti 2 Days bilis uli 1.6 mbps uli PLDT namin sarap talaga VIP kahit 1.0mbps lang ang binabayaran
We are lucky because our internet here in Qatar was not affected.
[...] available.Anche in occasione del terremoto che colpì il Giappone nell’estate del 2009 i cavi sottomarini furono danneggiati, in quel caso il cavo colpito fu l’APCN2 che congiunge Singapore, Malesia, Filippine, Hong [...]