Broadband Slowdown

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krishnandu.sarkar

krishnandu.sarkar

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NEW DELHI: The disruption in the SEA-ME-WE 4 undersea submarine cable system, which links South East Asia and Europe, is likely to affect the high-speed Internet services in the country.

The South East Asia-Middle East-West Europe 4 (SEA-ME-WE 4) project links the two regions via the Indian sub-continent and the Middle East. The project is run by a consortium of 16 international telecom companies, including Indian majors Bharti Airtel and Tata Communications.

According to sources, the disruption in the undersea cable network near Italy is likely to hit the broadband connections in India.

Maintenance of the undersea cables will be carried out for the next four days, which may cause some disruption in services.

However, the companies have taken various steps to minimise the impact, sources said.

Going by the project's official website, the undersea cable system has terminal stations in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Italy, Tunisia, Algeria and France.

"The project aims to take these regions to the forefront of global communication by significantly increasing the bandwidth and global connectivity of users along its route between Singapore and France," the website said.
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*economictimes.indiatimes.com/infot...net-service-in-India-/articleshow/5855874.cms

Getting absurd speeds from past 2days on BSNL here in Kolkata :-(
Pages takes 1-2mins to open :x
 
khmadhu

khmadhu

change is constant!!
me too.. for airtel..

bit slow compared to previous 2 weeks.
sometimes DNS lookup itself fails!!.
 
pushkar

pushkar

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Looks like this is the reason for my incredibly slow browsing using BSNL DataOne for the past 4 days. Surprisingly, uTorrent is still able to download at speeds of about 140-200 KB/s, but the browsing is really slow.
 
T

The Conqueror

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Same problem here, though my download speed is 1mbps, websites take a long time to load, and no matter how many DNS servers I change, the latency is same all over from the past few days..
 
motobuntu

motobuntu

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update


“Repair work is managed and controlled by SEA-ME-WE 4 who has indicated that the repair window may be extended to Friday 30 April 2010 for reasons unknown to SEACOM at this point,” SEACOM said on Monday.


SEACOM however said this morning that the latest notification it received from SEA-ME-WE 4 indicated that the repair work is expected to be completed by 22.00 on 28 April 2010 (UTC).


Source: *mybroadband.co.za/news/telecoms/12219-SEACOM-SEA---problems-may-resolved-soon.html
 
gagan007

gagan007

Uhu, Not Gonna Happen!
Strange, I was able to download yesterday with normal speed. I thought the repair is done already...
 
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