{"id":16768,"date":"2012-06-29T11:23:23","date_gmt":"2012-06-29T09:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=16768"},"modified":"2012-06-29T12:09:18","modified_gmt":"2012-06-29T10:09:18","slug":"adsl-international-hit-with-downtime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/16768\/adsl-international-hit-with-downtime\/","title":{"rendered":"ADSL International hit with downtime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Internet service providers <a title=\"WebAfrica\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/307429-WebAfrica\">WebAfrica<\/a> and <a title=\"Afrihost\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/307435-Afrihost\">Afrihost<\/a> were both reporting this morning (29 June 2012) that they were experiencing problems on their international <a title=\"ADSL\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/224881-ADSL\">ADSL<\/a> networks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are currently experiencing increased packet loss and latency on our international ADSL network,&#8221; Afrihost said. &#8220;Our engineers are attending to the matter and hope to have it resolved soon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>WebAfrica posted <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.webafrica.co.za\/showthread.php\/8155-ADSL-International-Connectivity-Outage\" target=\"_blank\">in their forum<\/a> that they\u2019re experiencing &#8220;degraded connectivity to international services&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Later in the thread, WebAfrica explained that their primary <a title=\"SAT-3\/WASC\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/306407-SAT-3-WASC\">SAT-3<\/a> cable links to London are &#8220;impacted\u201d&#8221; It is understood that there is a break on the cable near Portugal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Websites, e-mails and other services hosted internationally will be affected,&#8221; Afrihost said.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Related articles<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/50981-seacom-downtime-strikes-again.html\"><strong>SEACOM downtime strikes again<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/adsl\/46724-mweb-international-connectivity-downtime.html\"><strong>Mweb international connectivity downtime<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/45864-eassy-traffic-routing-back-to-normal-next-week.html\"><strong>EASSy traffic routing back to normal next week<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/44567-cable-breaks-to-blame-for-mtn-bis-problems.html\"><strong>Cable breaks to blame for MTN BIS problems<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/35748-blackberry-downtime-what-you-should-know.html\"><strong>BlackBerry downtime: what you should know<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afrihost and WebAfrica reporting upstream network issues<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":10512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[25,1944,3342,717,65,419],"class_list":["post-16768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-telecommunications","tag-active","tag-afrihost","tag-cable-break","tag-sat-3","tag-telkom","tag-webafrica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16768"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16790,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16768\/revisions\/16790"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}