{"id":40550,"date":"2012-06-29T10:34:51","date_gmt":"2012-06-29T08:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=40550"},"modified":"2012-06-29T11:48:36","modified_gmt":"2012-06-29T09:48:36","slug":"adsl-downtime-international-connectivity-problems-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/40550-adsl-downtime-international-connectivity-problems-explained","title":{"rendered":"ADSL downtime – international connectivity problems explained"},"content":{"rendered":"

Internet service providers WebAfrica<\/a> and Afrihost<\/a> were both reporting this morning (29 June 2012) that they were experiencing problems on their international ADSL<\/a> networks.<\/p>\n

“We are currently experiencing increased packet loss and latency on our international ADSL network,” Afrihost said. “Our engineers are attending to the matter and hope to have it resolved soon.”<\/p>\n

WebAfrica posted in their forum<\/a> that they\u2019re experiencing “degraded connectivity to international services”.<\/p>\n

Later in the thread, WebAfrica explained that their primary SAT-3<\/a> cable links to London are “impacted\u201d” It is understood that there is a break on the cable near Portugal.<\/p>\n

“Websites, e-mails and other services hosted internationally will be affected,” Afrihost said.<\/p>\n

Update<\/strong>: According to RSAweb, the outage on SAT-3 will only be restored on Sunday, 1 July 2012.<\/p>\n

\"RSAWEB

RSAWEB SAT-3 cable break tweet<\/p><\/div>\n

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Afrihost and WebAfrica reporting upstream network issues<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":27425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2289,5323,21,5324,287,3987],"class_list":["post-40550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-afrihost","tag-cable-break","tag-headline","tag-sat-3","tag-telkom","tag-webafrica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40551,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40550\/revisions\/40551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}