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Internet slows down after Japan earthquake

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.

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Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

73 Responses

  1. Avatar for Satellite PC Satellite PC says:

    We are lucky because our internet here in Qatar was not affected.

  2. Avatar for Naku Naku says:

    Buti 2 Days bilis uli 1.6 mbps uli PLDT namin sarap talaga VIP kahit 1.0mbps lang ang binabayaran

  3. Avatar for electro electro says:

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  4. Avatar for kwhengce kwhengce says:

    Yehey! I’ts back to normal na.

  5. Avatar for Donna Donna says:

    mine is still slow. i’m using sun broadband. :(

  6. Avatar for Reuben Reuben says:

    Internet speed is back on track!

  7. Avatar for blued888 blued888 says:

    MyDestiny seems to be back on track already. It was absolutely horrible for the past 2 days.

  8. Avatar for Essays.ph Essays.ph says:

    Tawagin nyo na si Aquaman

  9. Avatar for JC John Sese Cuneta JC John Sese Cuneta 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 )

  10. Avatar for Jose Farrugia Jose Farrugia 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/

  11. Avatar for eun eun says:

    kaya pala..

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