There is something seriously wrong with my internet connection

Well mikey, you need a job mate, a job to make the money to pay the bill!

It's not just you, ou Maaik, it's a general problem throughout Africa caused by damage to a SEACOM cable.

If you want to know more, click on the SEACOM website. They are giving daily updates. This was yesterday's update:

Message from CEO – 23 March

As SEACOM has indicated in previous communications, multiple cable systems continue to be affected across Africa, the Middle East and Asia.  I know that many of you are keen to know the cause of the outage is a physical cable cut some kilometres north of the coast of Egypt in the Mediterranean Sea. This is not likely to be known until the cable is repaired in the coming week or two and the damaged section is recovered from the seabed and inspected. However we suspect, based on our experience with sub-sea systems and the nature of the sea area where the cut has occurred, that the most likely cause is external aggression to the cable most probably caused by a larger vessel dragging its anchor across the sea bed. Unfortunately this remains a common cause of damage to cable systems globally, despite our continued efforts to protect the cable with armour, burying, notifications to ships of cable location and exclusion zones.

The SEACOM team’s first focus at this time remains getting restoration services turned up and our resources are committed to that work. However, this process is proving much more complex and taking longer than we were initially told by our suppliers and would have expected.  Whilst we believed we had secured adequate restoration capacity between Egypt and Europe yesterday (Friday), it has since eventuated during today that the physical capability to connect this capacity to our services in Europe is neither adequate nor stable enough. In addition the capacity that may be available is in a long line of activations requested by many carriers (and requiring many hundreds of Gb’s) and is not progressing at the rate we, or our customers, need.

SEACOM continues to push for activation as a priority, co-ordinating across a number of carriers internationally. However, as this is not providing solutions in the time frame we require, we are also actively seeking new restoration solutions. This will continue to take some time and we are not able to provide timeframes as yet on when services will be restored.

Please be assured that the SEACOM team is working hard to get our services back up as quickly as we can. We will continue to communicate directly to customers and post here as we have information for you.

With our sincerest apologies,

Mark Simpson

CEO, SEACOM

Looks like we're going to have several more days of sticky, slow and frustrating internet.

@mikey,

with great power comes great responsibility. its time for u to use those superpowers we discovered a few weeks back and use them for good, and help seacom out, LMAO :oP

"However we suspect, based on our experience with sub-sea systems and the nature of the sea area where the cut has occurred, that the most likely cause is external aggression to the cable most probably caused by a larger vessel dragging its anchor across the sea bed. Unfortunately this remains a common cause of damage to cable systems globally, despite our continued efforts to protect the cable with armour, burying, notifications to ships of cable location and exclusion zones."

kind of crazy how something as simple as a ships anchor could do so much damage. imagine if the captain was just an asshole who saw the warnings and did it on purpose??? o_O

My internet was down over the weekend and is still down but work internet is working.

Very frustrating also is I cant use my galaxy mobile to post here.

Thanks rooitwit for that useful information - a unique offering as it were!

saSUE unfortunately that ship was in the wrong spot. It should have been off the coast of NZ!! 

as rooinek said we have issues with seacom line. so the whole SA has some issues. as they say welcom to africa mate :P

they are aiming to sort the issue out today i think at 12 but that is just a estimate.

Well it cant be soon enough. Black udder was floundering badly over the week end and ou poly also need a bit of correction.

haha yes beeno we need those internet speed badly here in south africa