For what it’s worth: an alleged SEACOM cable break a few kilometers from Alexandria – eta of 2.5hrs or so…
Posts Tagged ‘connectivity’
AXXESS / Afrihost / IS / MWeb DSL slow-to-no international browsing
2010
12.02
12.02
Seems like there is an upstream cable fault (being investigated) that has caused international browsing from South Africa outward to fail.
Pings reveal failing terminations on the entry points into continental Europe and the US.
IS has reported it as follows, all others are piggy-backing (or just silent on the matter): (more…)
MTN Business Data lines crash – down again
2010
08.30
08.30
Last time, generator maintenance in Johannesburg took everything offline.
There was just notification with the subject line “unknown” (referring to the categorisation of the issue) at 14h22:
SYMPTOMS EXPERIENCED: Intermittent Degradation in Service SEVERITY: Critical (more...)
Tether the iPad to the iPhone
2010
03.09
03.09
I think I’ve already shared my thoughts on the iPad — the device that will have to create its own market gap, and then fill it, and then prove that it was perfect to fill that market gap.
Now, the idea of using the “tether” function as added towards the middle of 2009 (though not supported well by networks – due to data volumes?) was touted for use with the non-3G enabled iPad (unless you pay your $140 odd for mobile access) where Bluetooth- or USB-based links to a network are suppored. And, of course, for the hoards of people that followed the Apple storm, the iPhone is the logical next step there, in a world of integration and seamless interconnectivity.
But will the iPad support the tethering to the iPhone? Steve Jobs replied quite quickly and succinctly:
No.
Sent from my iPhone
Short, sweet, and at least using his own devices.
Users will still find a way to link up via MiFi or WiFi — without the official support from Apple – until they reflash the firmware and it becomes a battle of loopholes…
But you knew that already.