Internet Slows Down After Earthquake in Japan
August 14th, 2009 | posted by: Denz
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Internet speed has slow down these past few days and i read from one article that it was caused by earthquake in Japan. I have 5 mpbs connection and now when i am measuring at speedtest.net, i can only measure about 250 kbps download speed. Just ahead faster than dial-up connection. I can’t open some other sites, i think it has to do with DNS routing.
According from the report of ComputerWorld, Philippines is one of the affected countries
At about 10:50 a.m. on Wednesday, local time, an alarm signaled a cable fault on Segment 7 of APCN2, which connects Hong Kong and Shantou, China. The disruption caused a temporary loss of service on the undersea link but all customers that use the cable were soon shifted to capacity on other cables, according to a source familiar with the situation.
The APCN2 cable is owned by a consortium of 26 telecom operators from 14 different countries. The cable links Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Taiwan, China, South Korea and Japan.
PLDT seems to be the most heavily affected ISP. Other ISP such Globe Bayantel, etc may also experiencing slow down in internet connection.
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One Response
Charly Lance Says:
Have anyone noticed that earthquake is a bit frequent these days? . Does climate change have any thing to do with earthquake?