If you are an Internet user from Asia, you’re most probably experiencing a degradation in Internet performance right now due to several outages at some of the international links.
The cables that used to link Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, China and Taiwan are down. This is caused by the Richter 7.1 magnitude earthquake that hit Taiwan yesterday — exactly two years after the Tsunami swipe out large parts of India, Thailand, Sumatra and certain parts of North Peninsular Malaysia.
Here is an announcement from TM Net:
Wednesday, December 27, 2006ANNOUNCEMENTWe wish to inform our customers that the Internet service is currently experiencing a degradation in performance caused by several outages at some of the international links. This is attributed to the Richter 7.1 magnitude earthquake that struck off the southern coast of Taiwan at 12.07 a.m. on 27th December 2006, which caused the APCN2 (Asia Pacific Cable Network 2) submarine cable fault between Shantou, China and Tanshui, Taiwan and between Lantau, Hong Kong and Chongming, China.This has caused outages at several TM Net international transit and peering links, mainly to the said countries. As a result, Internet users in Malaysia and other parts of Asia may be experiencing some delay when assessing content and websites hosted outside of Malaysia, especially in U.S., Japan, China, Taiwan, Korea and Europe. TM Net has taken immediate action to divert traffic through other back-up links to reduce the traffic congestion.The international providers are carrying out immediate restoration works to rectify the problem. We will be making further announcements when the service has resumed.TM Net Sdn Bhd apologizes for any inconvenience caused whilst at the same time, we would like to assure you that we are doing all that is necessary in order to restore the service as soon as possible.Customers can call TM Net Customer Interaction Centre at 1-300-88-9515 (24 hours) or 1-300-88-1515 from 8:00 a.m. till midnight or e-mail us at [email protected] for further enquiries about this matter.
Announcement from Jaring:
- This announcement is addressed to all our JARING Customers.
- We would like to inform you that our International link is having problem started on December 27, 2006 at about 3:45 am.
- The telecommunication provider is working on rectifying the problem.
- Users may experience slow access to/from overseas sites during peak hours.
- We apologize for any inconvenience caused.
- Thank you.
JARING Network Operation Center
OK, I think all we can do right now is to wait patiently for their good news, and meanwhile surf mrdefinite.com because it is not affected ;) Take care.
p/s: I head it has been reported the cables would take 3 DAMN WEEKS to be repaired!!! Saddified!
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