This notice effects only ISPs serviced by SMW4 which would include Streamyx, Singtel and several Indian ISPs.
The repairs on SMW4 off Mumbai which began yesterday on the 23 May 2010 is expected to be completed by the 27 May 2010.
The cable repair ship has arrived and is performing upgrades as planned.
While this repair work is underway, disruptions to connections to Europe and East Coast of US is expected to continue. However, due to rerouted traffic, congestion is expected to also occur on the remaining routes to other international destinations.
Please note that this is strictly not a TM fault as the SMW4 is maintained by a consortium but I have a feeling that TM has not subscribed to sufficient uplinks to successfully failover properly.
SMW4: South East Asia–Middle East–Western Europe 4 (SEA-ME-WE 4) is an optical fibre submarine communications cable system that carries telecommunications between Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Egypt, Italy, Tunisia, Algeria and France.It is intended to be a complement to rather than a replacement for the SEA-WE-ME 3 cable.
The cable is approximately 18,800 kilometres long, and provides the primary Internet backbone between South East Asia, the Indian subcontinent, the Middle East and Europe.
May 24th, 2010 at 9:28 pm
ooo.. those wires again, ooppss.. i mean cables…
May 24th, 2010 at 10:14 pm
IT’S ALWAYS SOMETHING
May 24th, 2010 at 11:19 pm
27th? some lyn-er claim to have called tm cs and they said 29th..
May 24th, 2010 at 11:31 pm
Never know…another report said 27th but if TM says 29th…maybe 29th or longer?
May 25th, 2010 at 12:36 am
have called them ..they said 29th may..
May 25th, 2010 at 8:01 am
So that means I can’t download anything at the moment? my utorrent seem to be dead for now. T___T hopefully they can solve it asap.
May 25th, 2010 at 8:07 am
seems to be fixed…my torrent are currently running at normal speed.thank god (& the consortium) for that ^_^
May 25th, 2010 at 9:54 am
it seem that megaupload back to full speed ^^
May 25th, 2010 at 7:17 pm
spoke to soon..speed going haywire again
May 25th, 2010 at 7:29 pm
mine is constantly turtle like… rs @ 900 bytes per sec !
May 25th, 2010 at 9:22 pm
do people seriously believe this crap? after the umpteenth “submarine cable fault’ i’m getting suspicious
May 25th, 2010 at 9:25 pm
nomnom: It is actually announced on other ISP’s status reports as well so I think it’s real.
May 25th, 2010 at 11:35 pm
from kch i nid dis ip to hv good speed to dwnld from UE n US 124.13.xx.xx or 124.82.xx.xx.. d others like 118, 64 n 175 all crap even tho tm ip 175 somehow shows as outside of malaysia IP n can bypass LoL game check
May 26th, 2010 at 11:16 pm
124.x.x ip seems to give my torrents full speed while RS @ 20k-ish… ^_~
May 27th, 2010 at 7:30 pm
110.159.*.* seems to be running at full speed too…
May 28th, 2010 at 6:04 pm
no full speed
May 29th, 2010 at 8:24 am
tm still sucks. capped since last week. no bt for me. sigh.
May 31st, 2010 at 7:32 am
What I hate the most abt this fault is that It only primary affects TM and anyone using their backbone. While other isp that doesn’t relying heavily on TM, connect just fine or even better.
June 5th, 2010 at 3:38 pm
not yet fixed?
June 6th, 2010 at 7:26 pm
No idea,but i dun feel any recovery yet…