I guess if you are living in Egypt and using Internet on a daily basis like me whether in home or in work ,you would have noticed today that the Internet was down sometimes and very slow the other times . For me , I am using TE Data DSL , the line was not down but was so slow but other users complained from dead lines especially in Link Dot Net, of course the Egyptian government hurried to justify the reason and to clear itself from any conspiracy theory.
It is the Cable under sea's problem ,it is cut and is needed to fixed ,the cable from Europe under the Mediterranean and it is not only Egypt who lived a day without the Internet it turned out that Saudi Arabia and Lebanon are suffering till now just like us.
Anyhow here is what I heard from a friend working in LinkdotNet , One of Egypt's biggest ISP , well after TEData , this problem can take a lot of time , a lot of days actually , it can reach to 21 days till they fix the cable and work fine. wow imagine 21 days , I will not speak about how many people will be affected !!??
Currently all Egypt is surfing the Internet through Back up line in Suez and through Internet Satellite.
I do not know if I will able to post this post or not because right the Internet is slow.
here is the question , today showed us that we can be isolated from the world without Internet ,what is the plan B of the government ?? The Stock Market is affected , tourism sector was paralysed today , no booking or reservation online , same thing in the banking sector , more businesses are going online.
I hope they fix it soon
i have TEDATA and have 0 problems with speed or downloads, i am in the RAMSIS central cairo.
ReplyDeleteall people who are on the SEABONE link and FLAGTEL are affected by bad ping 300 to 1000ms, my ip range is the only one that is part of ALTERNET and pings are 100-150ms as usual and downlaod speed is 100kb/s.
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Hey Zanouba...i was watching ur favourite state channel and the minister was saying that they think an earthquake? cause the cable to break...i suppose anything is possible. He was asking Egyptian youth to stay off the net until the problem is resolved so that the essential services could use what was left of the net.
ReplyDeleteWeird though huh? Here on days at work where email goes down the entire place is paralyzed. Nothing gets done. Amazing how dependent we are on technology and computers. Hard to believe everything was done by paper once upon a time. Subhanallah.
@anonymous,are you sure that we are using the same ISP TEData coz the speed is slow currently , real slow
ReplyDelete@N.American , I do not have a favourite state chanel , the minister is saying a lot of things , if it were an earth quake why no other country has reported it !!
already as you said it is hard to believe that once upon there was no internet nor computer :(
A Egyptian friend have told me that she don't have Internet for more than 6 days becuase of the cable cutting, she also have lot's of random disconnects before and after that, sometimes we are chatting on Msn and her connection goes down a lot of times. And she's also having very low connection speeds now.
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