Maintenance on fibre cables in Egypt could cause slow internet browsing speeds and downloads in South Africa today. Seacom manages a 17 000km undersea fibre broadband cable that connects to places along Africa’s eastern coastline such as Mombasa in Kenya and Mtunzini in South Africa. The cable also has connecting links to Europe and parts of North Africa. Internet service providers in South Africa, such as MWEB, use the Seacom cable to help provide data capacity to their customers. But … [Read more...] about This is why your Internet Connection is slow today
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Dear Seacom Cable
Are you a weekend binge drinker? Because for the past couple of Mondays every single time I try and do a decent amount of work your connection acts like an employee with a hangover - wearing dark glasses, not connected to reality at all, curled up in the foetal position in a corner and worth FARG ALL except to laugh and cackle over. We will not talk about the other times during the week when you also slip out for a bottle or two of tequila as well! The Seacom cable has been down so many … [Read more...] about Dear Seacom Cable
I am Completely Farged Off With ISP’s
The connections between my computer and the web sites that I maintain, visit and publish to are many. Most of the sites that I interact with are hosted internationally as a result of exhorbitant costs locally. Believe me that most people would prefer to host locally and the price differential is shrinking albeit slowly. When the 'cost effective' Seacom cable was launched to much acclaim and hailed as the saviour of cash strapped bandwidth consumers we saw people migrating in their thousands … [Read more...] about I am Completely Farged Off With ISP’s
