SE Asia : Europe Internet Connections at 10% normal speed
By Garry | December 20th, 2008 | Category: Feature Articles, Internet | 1 Comment »
The breakage of the three trunk undersea cables in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Tunisia has dropped Internet bandwidth between Europe and Asia to 10% of normal capacity, as Telco’s and ISPs frantically try to reroute connections through the USA. Users in SE Asia are reporting connections as slow as 5 bps with up to 100% transmission packet loss on some browse and email connection attempts.