Internet services in India and Egypt disrupted

Internet services in India and Egypt disrupted

MUMBAI (Reuters) - A breakdown in an international undersea cable network badly disrupted Internet links to India and Egypt on Wednesday.

Egypt's Telecommunications Ministry said a communications cable in the Mediterranean was cut, disrupting 70 percent of the country's Internet network.

The ministry said in a statement it was not known how the cable was cut but that services would probably take several days to return to normal.

India reported serious disruptions to its services and one Indian Internet service provider linked the problem to the Egyptian outage.

"There has been a cable cut on several cable systems in Alexandria, Egypt which has impacted internet connectivity in India," Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd (VSNL), an internet service provider, said in a statement.

VSNL said its service had been "largely restored" by diverting to another cable.

India said it had lost more than half of its capacity.

"There has been a 50 to 60 percent cut in bandwidth," Rajesh Chharia, president of the Internet Service Providers' Association of India, told Reuters.

He told the Headlines Today news channel that a "degraded" service would be activated by Wednesday night, but full restoration will take 10 to 15 days.

Source::*in.reuters.com/article/topNews/idINIndia-31677820080130

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gr8 copy paste.Anyways,i came to know abt this incidence some hrs ago.
net speed is realy slow.
Only 230 kBps

^^ NEWS are Always Copypasted

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^^
huh,whatever!

Headlines Today say that almost 50% of net connection in india is down

, im lucky my line is still up

that explains me getting a record setting 48 bytes/second :lol:

Ahh... I was hoping that BSNL was upgrading their lines. :lol:

I didn't get over 22-23 KBps the whole day, but my line was better than many others in Chennai.

Things are back to normal - atleast my line is...

Well i'm getting good speed on some sites but some like rapidshare are totally cut-off .

^^
yup... RS is down for me...

but amazingly my speeds havent gone down...

i think the access to sites whose servers are in europe will be extremely slow or cut off.

Every thing worked as normal as everyday for me.

My two vsnl connections were very slow in the afternoon .around 20kbps but now its normal again

Yeah that explains it why the sites are loading so slowly.
The ping times are horrible

Downloads speeds are unaffected though

Mine connection was up but want able to open any sites.
But now the issue seems to be fixed.

Very slow connection for me here in Kochi(n) from yesterday onwards. 8KBps to 50KBps fluctuating

me too was getting insanely speeds here in lko.....imageshack was totally FUBARed here....

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Thank god I didn't face any problems with surfing. But ya RS was slow yesterday

oh ok , so this is the reason I m getting 1-3kbps for the last 30 hours. really frustrating. cant open mails . one thinkdigit forum page takes 3 minutes to load , really frustrating .

problem persists here in Bengalooru... getting just 60KBps only...

yesterday i was out for the whole day ..so cnt say anything. came back at 8 in the eve but no difference in speed. seems my line is nt down .....though i am using VSNL (TATA).

P.S. : my connection is 64 kbps snailband.

I have BSNL BB and in my case Internet speed was damn slow from the wednesday morning in West Bengal. I just got around 20 to 30 kBps instead of regular 220 kBps

Thank God........ma net dropped to low speeds, but its still up and running. Most of ma frnds net connections hav gone to pretty low speeds, they can't even load a single small page.....*gigasmilies.googlepages.com/111.gif

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yup my speed has come down from 1.5kBs to 0.5kBs...actually it varies like that only...I can't even imagine how it feels to be on broadband speed, which you guys are having...hehe...but am happy...

PQ: What "ma" stands here for ?

arnold991 said:
yup my speed has come down from 1.5kBs to 0.5kBs...actually it varies like that only...I can't even imagine how it feels to be on broadband speed, which you guys are having...hehe...but am happy...

PQ: What "ma" stands here for ?

"ma" is another way (internet lingo) to say "my" ! Lol

rats ..

this page tool 14 minutes to load

now im facing serious speed issues, downloads are of good speed, like from MS I get full 2MBPS, where are browsing sucks

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Use a proxy charan.Proxies are helping me.

yep mein bhi proxy se hi thinkdigit forum pe aa paya hoon...
*www.free-canadian-proxy.info

Harvik780 said:
Use a proxy charan.Proxies are helping me.

Thanks man , now I can surf digit with higher speed

im using www.proxycentre.com , its very fast

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@members , please let us know which proxy sites you are using so that others can also browser

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go here *proxy.org/ (1st link to google search

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btw for me this one's working at decent speed www.proxyvoda.com

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now im getting 20-25 kBps.For sometime speed remains low and then it jumps to 200 kBps.Strange things happening!

Yah, Digit forum takes ages to open. But some sites load very fast. Anyway most places in Kerala, internet is very slow it seems. Many friends says so.

Im getting just 2 KBps from Ubuntu's update servers

din said:
Yah, Digit forum takes ages to open. But some sites load very fast. Anyway most places in Kerala, internet is very slow it seems. Many friends says so.

use www.proxycentre.com .. digit loads very fast

A quick look at the last 10 hours d/l - u/l speed pattern of uTorrent tells us how this connection is disturbed...

*img.skitch.com/20080131-duc2dafha1eqss7r83hwb26f2q.jpg

Every site is taking a hell lot time to open for me too.
Browsing through a proxy now.

kalpik said:
Im getting just 2 KBps from Ubuntu's update servers

I was also stuck on 5kBps yesterday but slowly the speed picked up to 150kBps.
I can't imagine downloading hardy alpha-4 at 5kBps

Digit Forum is really slow for me.. Takes ages to load..
But everything else is fine

hmm.... for me the pages are loading like normal ; din chk the download speed though...
seems that You broadband had a good backup plan ...

Just checked my download speed from BSNL. Its at 3.04Mbps which is normal in my connection.
But why is digit forum taking soo long to respond when i click on a thread or post something?

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Its a technical think that will take a long explanation.Maybe cyrus_the_virus would have explained it better.This type of failure has a particular description in networking field.

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Charan said:
use www.proxycentre.com .. digit loads very fast

woohoo ...man ... proxycentre kicks butt !! :-D

Great, proxycenter makes it fast

heh... my speed is as it as.. i didnt face any problem at all it was 180 Kbps - 240 Kbps as usual

My vsnl is running without any glitch.it takes seconds to open any page

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School net damn damn damn slow.. Reliance data card.. damnnnn slow...

Bangalore,Bombay seems not affected :evil:

First thing this bsnl dupes should do is to move their central server(NIB) from B'lore to Cochin or Chennai or Calcutta or some coastal cities(Cochin preferred due to the landing of most undersea cables) :evil:

what is the use of setting up central server in a hill?for slow speeds to other parts of India ?

@praka123

Consider ourself as lucky !!

One of my friends from pune called in the morning to ask me whether internet is up here. I told him yes but slow. He said almost all major comapnies there in pune are affected, internet is fully down in that area. They have VSNL and Reliance backup, but everything down. Hes not online til lnow, so I guess its not ok there yet.

We have something atleast, I man slow internet lol.

for me, the foreign sites/forums... work fine, but indian sites, like thinkdigit... are dead slow, using proxy.

now rapidshare speed is dead

was d/lin @80KBps till 4pm

now I am getting some good speeds;still response time is high

Its fine with me

fingers crossed

I wanted to download Java for firefox.. Usually downloads are 250-300+kbps on my connection.. Now its less than 10Kbps

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i am gettign 220-230 kBps but ping is very high.

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I was also wondering what happened to BSNL. Till Wednesday, I was getting blindingly fast downloads. From Wednesday it has not crossed 25-26 KB/ps. Also there is a palpable slowness in browsing. Surprisingly when I did broadband speed test it showed me near about 2MB/ps. Can't comprehend. Seems we have to put up with this for the next 10-15 days.

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Sify has officially notified every customer.We got the notification immediately after my brother connected his sify unlimited 1100 (256Kbps)net today.I have noticed that sify's customer care is very prompt and helpful.We didn't call them when after we asked for the BB connection.The servicemen here were forced to give connection within 4 days after Republic day.Customer service is also available on Sundays.
The notification said that due to breakage of underground sea cable we might experience slow speeds when browsing sites from servers located in other countries.
Digit's forum is not located on a server in India.

I was facing this problem yesterday, morning it was fine and now its slow again. It will take around a week for repair works, so no downloading till then.

How long will it take to fix this cable problem?

ISP association guy (in rediff site and other news sites) said 15 to 20 days !!!!

Not sure whether its true.

din said:
ISP association guy (in rediff site and other news sites) said 15 to 20 days !!!!

Not sure whether its true.

15-20

"The repair will take another 15-20 days," Internet Service Providers Association of India president Rajesh Chharia said. Although repair teams have rushed to the Egyptian coast to fix the problem and a 'low grade' service is likely to be activated soon.

From

*www.rediff.com/money/2008/jan/31net.htm

DataOne / TATA (Broadband) / Sify (Broadband) is running here, at Kolkata... how ever speed is dead slow :lol:

Sify cant open BSNL hosted sites (opening slow) where as BSNL cant open (opening slow) Sify hosted sites :lol:

TATA vs BSNL seems fine

I am unable to access my own forum

Ok, had a quick chat with CMD, BSNL and here's our interview:

*farm3.static.flickr.com/2295/2233343888_54f5d31e96_o.jpg

lol....

@drgrudge

did u created that ???? cool... nice work...

Choto Cheeta said:
@drgrudge

did u created that ???? cool... nice work...

Yeah. With Comic Life software. :twisted:

^all credit goes to mac OS X

Isnt it true @grudge?

Ah! I was wondering why my net sux today....

I think everything is fine again. I am now getting my speed back

hello guys
yaar yaha pe internet 3 hours ke liye bandh ho gaya tha...

mujhe laga gaya internet.. ab shayad 15-20 days ke baad hi milega...

lekin net phir se chala pada.. lol
aap sab ko phir se dekh kar achha laga..

and yes speed bhi mast mil rahi hai..

@drgrudge
hey kool work hehehehe :lol:

praka123 said:
^all credit goes to mac OS X Isnt it true @grudge?

Comic Life is available for Windows as well. Also I used Skitch which is a Mac only app.

Hehe, thanks guys....

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I didn't face any problems in speed with my Tata Indicom connection in Pune in last 2 days. Speed is very stable and ping is also normal. Also I didn't faced any problems with thinkdigit.com site also...

sandeepk said:
I didn't face any problems in speed with my Tata Indicom connection in Pune in last 2 days. Speed is very stable and ping is also normal. Also I didn't faced any problems with thinkdigit.com site also...

Same here (in delhi).

Just read in news paper that the reason for OFCs destructed due to ship's anchoring near egypt Sues canal.

@drgrudge- nice creation

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My college net seems to work fine here..
Yeterday there was little problem...
BTW the lines were cut in Egypt...why it's affecting us ?

moreover why it's affecting only certain countries and their ISP's...?

And most important thing is how they are going to repair..?

how they will find where the cable is broken..?

why they use cables for such a long distance..can't they use satellites or any other wireless ways..?

@drgrudge

The cartoon was sooo cool. Rwllay funny

@adi007

Upload is a pain using satellite.
There are many cable networks. For example, it didn't affect Cochin (we have FLAG and another reaches here) while Mumbai / Pune affected severly - as the undersea cable is different there. That explains why some countries / secions affected most.

How the repair ? lol, good question. I was also thinking about that.

Cable damage nettles netizens
DH News Service, Bangalore:

Mails moved at a snail's pace in the IT City on Thursday, thanks to snags in Internet connectivity following damage to two undersea cables in the Mediterranean Sea.

Several Internet users in the City complained of slow browsing and cyber cafes faced connectivity problems. The problem, which surfaced in the wee hours of Thursday, continued till evening.

“Internet connectivity was poor as it was on and off for most part of the day before limping back to normalcy by around 8:30 pm. The service providers put the blame on damage to undersea cables,” said Zulfikar, owner of an Internet parlour on Brigade Road.

The Internet Service Providers Association too confirmed that there wa Ts a slowdown and a 50 to 60 per cent cut in bandwidth.