Internet services in India and Egypt disrupted

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Internet services in India and Egypt disrupted

MUMBAI (Reuters) - A breakdown in an international undersea cable network badly disrupted Internet links to India and Egypt on Wednesday.

Egypt's Telecommunications Ministry said a communications cable in the Mediterranean was cut, disrupting 70 percent of the country's Internet network.

The ministry said in a statement it was not known how the cable was cut but that services would probably take several days to return to normal.

India reported serious disruptions to its services and one Indian Internet service provider linked the problem to the Egyptian outage.

"There has been a cable cut on several cable systems in Alexandria, Egypt which has impacted internet connectivity in India," Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd (VSNL), an internet service provider, said in a statement.

VSNL said its service had been "largely restored" by diverting to another cable.

India said it had lost more than half of its capacity.

"There has been a 50 to 60 percent cut in bandwidth," Rajesh Chharia, president of the Internet Service Providers' Association of India, told Reuters.

He told the Headlines Today news channel that a "degraded" service would be activated by Wednesday night, but full restoration will take 10 to 15 days.


Source::http://in.reuters.com/article/topNew...31677820080130

[SunnyChahal]

gr8 copy paste.Anyways,i came to know abt this incidence some hrs ago.
net speed is realy slow.
Only 230 kBps

[als2]

^^ NEWS are Always Copypasted

[SunnyChahal]

^^
huh,whatever!

[Charan]

Headlines Today say that almost 50% of net connection in india is down , im lucky my line is still up

[chesss]

that explains me getting a record setting 48 bytes/second

[drgrudge]

Ahh... I was hoping that BSNL was upgrading their lines. I didn't get over 22-23 KBps the whole day, but my line was better than many others in Chennai.

Things are back to normal - atleast my line is...

[Zeeshan Quireshi]

Well i'm getting good speed on some sites but some like rapidshare are totally cut-off .

[CINTEL ENTRINO]

^^
yup... RS is down for me...
but amazingly my speeds havent gone down...
i think the access to sites whose servers are in europe will be extremely slow or cut off.

[victor_rambo]

Every thing worked as normal as everyday for me.

[utsav]

My two vsnl connections were very slow in the afternoon .around 20kbps but now its normal again

[Ankur Gupta]

Yeah that explains it why the sites are loading so slowly.
The ping times are horrible
Downloads speeds are unaffected though

[sachin_kothari]

Mine connection was up but want able to open any sites.
But now the issue seems to be fixed.

[praka123]

Very slow connection for me here in Kochi(n) from yesterday onwards. 8KBps to 50KBps fluctuating

[iamtheone]

me too was getting insanely speeds here in lko.....imageshack was totally FUBARed here....

[amol48]

Thank god I didn't face any problems with surfing. But ya RS was slow yesterday

[~Phenom~]

oh ok , so this is the reason I m getting 1-3kbps for the last 30 hours. really frustrating. cant open mails . one thinkdigit forum page takes 3 minutes to load , really frustrating .

[RaghuKL]

problem persists here in Bengalooru... getting just 60KBps only...

[harryneopotter]

yesterday i was out for the whole day ..so cnt say anything. came back at 8 in the eve but no difference in speed. seems my line is nt down .....though i am using VSNL (TATA).

P.S. : my connection is 64 kbps snailband.

[debsuvra]

I have BSNL BB and in my case Internet speed was damn slow from the wednesday morning in West Bengal. I just got around 20 to 30 kBps instead of regular 220 kBps

[j1n M@tt]

Thank God........ma net dropped to low speeds, but its still up and running. Most of ma frnds net connections hav gone to pretty low speeds, they can't even load a single small page.....

[arnold991]

yup my speed has come down from 1.5kBs to 0.5kBs...actually it varies like that only...I can't even imagine how it feels to be on broadband speed, which you guys are having...hehe...but am happy... :-P

PQ: What "ma" stands here for ?

[ax3]

1stly here net connection ki VAAT lagi hai ..... & this thing ...... aur kitna cutdown hoga .......

[Pat]

Originally Posted by arnold991

yup my speed has come down from 1.5kBs to 0.5kBs...actually it varies like that only...I can't even imagine how it feels to be on broadband speed, which you guys are having...hehe...but am happy... :-P

PQ: What "ma" stands here for ?

"ma" is another way (internet lingo) to say "my" ! Lol

[Charan]

rats .. this page tool 14 minutes to load now im facing serious speed issues, downloads are of good speed, like from MS I get full 2MBPS, where are browsing sucks

[Harvik780]

Use a proxy charan.Proxies are helping me.

[Rockstar11]

yep mein bhi proxy se hi thinkdigit forum pe aa paya hoon...
http://www.free-canadian-proxy.info

[Charan]

Originally Posted by Harvik780

Use a proxy charan.Proxies are helping me.

Thanks man , now I can surf digit with higher speed
im using www.proxycentre.com , its very fast .

@members , please let us know which proxy sites you are using so that others can also browser .

[s18000rpm]

go here http://proxy.org/ (1st link to google search )

btw for me this one's working at decent speed www.proxyvoda.com

[SunnyChahal]

now im getting 20-25 kBps.For sometime speed remains low and then it jumps to 200 kBps.Strange things happening!