APCN2 Causes Internet Service Disruption in South East Asia

APCN2

Problems with the uderwater submarine cable APCN2 (Asia Pacific Cable Network 2) the past few days forced the Internet connectivity in some countries in Asia Pacific to a standstill.

I started noticing something was wrong when my friends started calling me up and asking if I had any Internet connection.
The APCN2 cable connects countries like Singapore, Malaysia, Philipines, Taiwan, and South Korea to Japan, and then on to the major Internet backbone in the USA. Since all my sites are hosted in the US, my customers in these countries had problems accessing the sites, placing orders and even downloading their products.

Customers in the US should not be affected by this disaster. All should be well for everyone by now, as you can plainly see I’m able to access my blogs again :)

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Comment by Rammel Firdaus
2007-01-03 04:38:14

The decrease in surfing speed is making me go crazy. Usually it takes a few sec to upload a page. Now it takes like decades (exaggerating).

 
Comment by R. L.
2007-01-04 11:52:30

Yeah its been hell trying to get online the past few days. Using a proxy isnt helping much either.

 
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