It’s been a rocky start to the year of DSL connectivity with EASSY and SEACOM, among the major uplinks from Southern Africa, all were affected by outages. After a network outage between Abu Tala ...
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 co ...
Notification at 20:04 on 23 July 2010 read that the link was back up and stable. For now. ...
SEACOM expects all connectivity to be restored to full pre-crash conditions by 23 July 2010. The repairs are not complete yet, but, officially, “in the final stages of completion”, with on ...
Finally, SEACOM has posted new (well, another) report regarding the undersea outage off Mombasa, which, though initially projected to be completed by 11 July will most probably only be finished by 22 ...
Nothing much new, there is not even an operational update from SEACOM. However, unofficial reports are still pointing to 22 July 2010 as the targeted completion date forthe service to be restored for ...
Since their last update, SEACOM – via their news section or the SEACOM Blog which are ostensibly the same (sort of very weak SQL coding and gaping holes asking for SQL injection) – has not ...
There has been a flurry of updates relating to the repairs to the SEACOM cable. In short – don’t expect anything before 22 July – previous expectations of “5 – 8 daysR ...
So the site’s back, but there’s no news. No news is good news? Please note that our News module is currently unavailable, due to a security patch implemented by Hosting – we are work ...
The official source for SEACOM press releases, www.seacom.mu has decided to follow suit on the router off Mombasa that has decided to crash, with a very boring bog-standard JET Database error message ...
Local ISPs have been making a variety of attempts and efforts to reroute local traffic to bridge the virtual shut-down of the connectivity of those users solely dependent on the SEACOM fibre-optic cab ...
Slow Internet access (if any – in some cases, you can’t connect to sites without using a proxy) in South Africa… SEACOM has announced that the actual repair on the repeater in segmen ...
New update at 5am SAST: So they have initiated the deployment of the ship to the wet plant. That does not mean, though, that the ship is actually is already on its way – it’s deployment is ...
One of my service providers have forwarded me an update to the latest SEACOM outage: According to the update, SEACOM has sent out notification that they are currently localising the fault from both Mu ...
Afrihost, as well as a range of other resellers of SEACOM bandwidth, again had to post notifications today of network downtime: We are experiencing an intermittent International ADSL connectivity prob ...
“SEACOM’s backhaul service provider link is down from Mtunzini to Johannesburg due to an unusual failure on both primary and secondary routes due to circumstances beyond our control. SEACO ...
The latest notification received from SEA-ME-WE 4 indicates that the repair work on the SEA-ME-WE 4 cable is expected to be completed by 22.00 (UTC) on 28 April 2010. That’s the update from SEAC ...
An update from Afrihost which echos what’s happening to IS-resellers of DSL bandwidth in South Africa: IS have removed ADSL users from emergency SAT3 backup and thus you will not be able to acce ...
MTN Business (in their NOC notices) have confirmed what SEACOM had alluded to – the maintenance windows (and hence the high latency and traffic redirection via the SAT3 cable rather than the SEA ...