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For what it’s worth: an alleged SEACOM cable break a few kilometers from Alexandria – eta of 2.5hrs or so… ...
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[UPDATE] SEACOM cable back up (for now)
Notification at 20:04 on 23 July 2010 read that the link was back up and stable. For now. ...
[UPDATE] SEACOM – finally, a light of hope after cable outage and line down: 23 July
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 ...
[UPDATE] SEACOM operational update re repairs and down time
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 ...
[UPDATE] SEACOM still eyeing the 22 July as targeted restore date
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 ...
[UPDATE] SEACOM – no news is good news?
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 ...
[UPDATE] SEACOM cable outage update – new ETA: down until 22 July
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 ...
[UPDATE] (no) News on SEACOM down due to router off Mombasa
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 ...
[UPDATE] SEACOM down – now their website, too
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 ...
[UPDATE] More news : SEACOM router down
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 ...
[UPDATE] SEACOM cable offline until at least 11 July
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 ...
[UPDATE] SEACOM down again: A ship, a ship…
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 ...
[UPDATE] SEACOM down again
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 ...
SEACOM down again – cable break in Kenya
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 link was down again, stable now
“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 ...
SEACOM cable issue resolved?
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 ...
Update on slow Internet – South Africa – due to SEACOM maintenance
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 ...
SEACOM maintenance extended until 30 April – South African Internet slow
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 ...