Under-sea cable fault cripples internet in India and the Middle-East

btarunr · Jan 31, 2008

A breakdown in an international undersea cable network badly disrupted Internet links to India and Egypt on Wednesday. Egypt's Telecommunications Ministry said a communications cable in the Mediterranean was cut, disrupting 70 percent of the country's Internet network. The ministry said in a statement it was not known how the cable was cut but that services would probably take several days to return to normal. India reported serious disruptions to its services and one Indian Internet service provider linked the problem to the Egyptian outage. "There has been a cable cut on several cable systems in Alexandria, Egypt which has impacted internet connectivity in India," Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd (VSNL), an internet service provider, said in a statement. VSNL said its service had been "largely restored" by diverting to another cable. India said it had lost more than half of its capacity. "There has been a 50 to 60 percent cut in bandwidth," Rajesh Chharia, president of the Internet Service Providers' Association of India, told Reuters. He told the Headlines Today news channel that a "degraded" service would be activated by Wednesday night, but full restoration will take 10 to 15 days. Chharia said companies, including some of India's many outsourcing businesses, had been affected.

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I'm not even able to properly load Speedtest.net to show you how much of a disaster it is.

Unable to connect to my Steam account!
TechPowerUp Forums page takes 35 seconds to load.
Unable to even stream a 64 kbps radio station from London.
Most IM protocols such as JabberLive and AIM fail (with random socket errors)
HTTPS authentication servers fail (timeout).
< Dial-up speeds when accessing European servers.

The Ministry of communications has leased an alternate route from India-Hong Kong-Internode Austrailia-California but that steps up pings by almost 5000ms and pings usually time out.

Disasters don't have to be loss of life, property etc., as you can clearly see.

exodusprime1337 · Jan 31, 2008

hey man sorry to hear about the internet out there, if your as inclined to be on your computer, i know that it can be really hard on you. i feel you.

btarunr · Jan 31, 2008

It's less of a disaster for me, more so for businesses that depend on the Internet. I'm sure all the tech-support calls/ email-based tech support will take a hit.

(I can't even see your Avatar or sigpic, only a red "X")

[I.R.A]_FBi · Jan 31, 2008

a lot of stuff is sublet to india no?

btarunr · Jan 31, 2008

yes, many IT companies from all over sublease their tech-support to India. But the Middle-east is equally affected, and they are equally key on businesses the world over, some of the most crucial banking sectors lie in middle-east nations.

xfire · Jan 31, 2008

errr its fine for me?

Mussels · Jan 31, 2008

btarunr said:
A breakdown in an international undersea cable network badly disrupted Internet links to India and Egypt on Wednesday. Egypt's Telecommunications Ministry said a communications cable in the Mediterranean was cut, disrupting 70 percent of the country's Internet network. The ministry said in a statement it was not known how the cable was cut but that services would probably take several days to return to normal. India reported serious disruptions to its services and one Indian Internet service provider linked the problem to the Egyptian outage. "There has been a cable cut on several cable systems in Alexandria, Egypt which has impacted internet connectivity in India," Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd (VSNL), an internet service provider, said in a statement. VSNL said its service had been "largely restored" by diverting to another cable. India said it had lost more than half of its capacity. "There has been a 50 to 60 percent cut in bandwidth," Rajesh Chharia, president of the Internet Service Providers' Association of India, told Reuters. He told the Headlines Today news channel that a "degraded" service would be activated by Wednesday night, but full restoration will take 10 to 15 days. Chharia said companies, including some of India's many outsourcing businesses, had been affected.

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I'm not even able to properly load Speedtest.net to show you how much of a disaster it is.

Unable to connect to my Steam account!

TechPowerUp Forums page takes 35 seconds to load.

Unable to even stream a 64 kbps radio station from London.

Most IM protocols such as JabberLive and AIM fail (with random socket errors)

HTTPS authentication servers fail (timeout).

< Dial-up speeds when accessing European servers.

The Ministry of communications has leased an alternate route from India-Hong Kong-Internode Austrailia-California but that steps up pings by almost 5000ms and pings usually time out.

Disasters don't have to be loss of life, property etc., as you can clearly see.

i've been suffering the slow speeds to EU servers. TPU took upto a minute to post my messages (sat there timing out) but its gone now.
Speeds were worst about 24-36 hours ago here.

Must be bad for you guys, if i felt it all the way over here in Au.

btarunr · Jan 31, 2008

Aussies are helping relay our traffic between Hong Kong and California. maybe that's slowing things down.

xfire said:
errr its fine for me?

The NIB is relatively less conjested to if you're using the Indian servers for Google or Yahoo (located in Hyderabad and Pune respectively), you'll see phenominal speeds.

PrudentPrincess · Jan 31, 2008

It's good to be a yank. :laugh:

xfire · Jan 31, 2008

mines a 128Kbps connection and hasn't been affected.

Mussels · Jan 31, 2008

PrudentPrincess said:
It's good to be a yank.

xfire · Jan 31, 2008

heres one to egypt

btarunr · Jan 31, 2008

xfire said:
mines a 128Kbps connection and hasn't been affected.

Every connection is doing 128kbps now, including my 8192 kbps (Dn) 512 kbps (Up) line from NIB. I'm not able to load speedtest. I'm sure even I'm doing 128kbps now

PrudentPrincess · Jan 31, 2008

Mussels said:

Thats pretty much sums up how foreigners fight. XD

aximbigfan · Jan 31, 2008

Damn.

It's too bad that the cable leading to Nigeria didn't snap instead.

Chris

xfire · Jan 31, 2008

btarunr said:
Every connection is doing 128kbps now, including my 8192 kbps (Dn) 512 kbps (Up) line from NIB. I'm not able to load speedtest. I'm sure even I'm doing 128kbps now

Mine is 128Kbps and that is what I get usually. Its enough for surfing and downloading but game:shadedshu

btarunr · Jan 31, 2008

Some pages from my router:

^Look at the insane number of users to the gateway (NIB shut down its gateways because they're not required anyway)

Even after DNS resolution, you can't load a page because its high ping:

It took my 15 minutes + 4 failed attempts to upload this :laugh:

I'm still not able to get to speedtest.net for whatever reason.

Ravenas · Jan 31, 2008

Lol, not so much of a disaster though. Before the cable internet revolution came along, we were all on 56k

...

Who will be fixing this though?

Duxx · Jan 31, 2008

Man, that sounds awful. On a side note, did anybody else notice how long TPU was taking to load the other day? Monday/Tuesday i was experiencing like 1 min load times, when everything else worked just fine and speedtest.net was reporting normal numbers.

erocker · Jan 31, 2008

PrudentPrincess said:
Thats pretty much sums up how foreigners fight. XD

You are the foriegner here racist.

btarunr · Jan 31, 2008

xfire said:
heres one to egypt

Speedtest displays distance based on geographical facts, it doesn't calculate it based on the test result. Interesting: Look at the ping, it should be 102ms for me to London under normal conditions, your ping to Cairo being 600+ms tells the whole story.

xfire · Jan 31, 2008

Should ping be high or low?
For me everything is normal.
Even TPU loads fine. Yours is BSNL right?
Know if anyother ISP(like tata) is affected.
Mine is Beam Cable btw.

Mussels · Jan 31, 2008

ping should be low. i get 200-250ms to the USA from here, so anything above that... you get the idea.

LAN is 1-10ms, internet to other users of your ISP should be 30-50, and average net 50-150 in the same country.

asb2106 · Jan 31, 2008

I tested into India and it was decent speeds

btarunr · Jan 31, 2008

xfire said:
Should ping be high or low?
For me everything is normal.
Even TPU loads fine. Yours is BSNL right?
Know if anyother ISP(like tata) is affected.
Mine is Beam Cable btw.

Yes, it's NIB (National Internet Backbone, bills paid to BSNL, DataOne Business 8Mbps) Tata is affected even worse, it owns VSNL. Cables such as Beam, Hathway, etc. are all proxy clients of NIB under (ITSN)

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