Taiwan Earthquakes Interrupts Telecommunications Across Asia

Filed in: Technology, Tmnet — December 27th, 2006

If you experienced interruptions of phone and web services in Asia, you are not alone. The recent strong earthquakes in Taiwan damaged a few undersea cables. Repairing the undersea cables will take two to three weeks.

Jaring and TMnet had also make related announcements on their websites.

“The recent earthquake in Taiwan (and its related aftershock effects) has caused major outages of international connectivity due to multiple submarine cable failures in the affected areas. JARING international links are also affected since 3:46 am this morning (27 Dec 2006).” – JARING- Announcements

“We wish to inform our customers that the Internet service is currently experiencing a degradation in performance caused by several outages at some of the international links. This is attributed to the Richter 7.1 magnitude earthquake that struck off the southern coast of Taiwan at 12.07 a.m. on 27th December 2006, which caused the APCN2 (Asia Pacific Cable Network 2) submarine cable fault between Shantou, China and Tanshui, Taiwan and between Lantau, Hong Kong and Chongming, China.

This has caused outages at several TM Net international transit and peering links, mainly to the said countries. As a result, Internet users in Malaysia and other parts of Asia may be experiencing some delay when assessing content and websites hosted outside of Malaysia, especially in U.S., Japan, China, Taiwan, Korea and Europe. TM Net has taken immediate action to divert traffic through other back-up links to reduce the traffic congestion.” – TM Net – Newsroom

My personal experience

I was unable to access Internet in the morning (Dec 27). My mother’s phone call to my auntie in Taiwan also not reachable.

In the afternoon, I was able to surf local websites but international sites were mostly time out. Internet access was getting slightly better at the midnight/early morning (now). Still, my works are seriously interrupted. :(

How is your Internet connection? Please let me know that I am not alone. :P

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  • http://www.sheeptech.com/ vincentchow

    Use proxies, I surf as usual with it.

  • http://www.vincentchow.net Vincent

    Use proxies, I surf as usual with it.

  • LcF

    @Vincent: you are using proxy in which country?

  • LcF

    @Vincent: you are using proxy in which country?

  • Mr. Bear

    Bear thinks we need more internet cable. Perhaps 10x more to surf comfortably.

    Using multiple proxies can help, linking through multiple other routes.

  • Mr. Bear

    Bear thinks we need more internet cable. Perhaps 10x more to surf comfortably.

    Using multiple proxies can help, linking through multiple other routes.

  • http://blog.webspeek.com/ Sam

    my surfing speed is not really affected..

    my gaming speed is badly affected though..

  • http://blog.webspeek.com/ Sam

    my surfing speed is not really affected..

    my gaming speed is badly affected though..

  • http://ashrufzz.blogspot.com/2006/12/why-todays-internet-connection-is-down.html Ashrufzz

    I’ve blogged about my internet connection yesterday. Can’t really rely on it these days.

  • http://ashrufzz.blogspot.com/2006/12/why-todays-internet-connection-is-down.html Ashrufzz

    I’ve blogged about my internet connection yesterday. Can’t really rely on it these days.

  • http://www.sheeptech.com/ vincentchow

    Australia proxy works great, it’s fast.

  • http://www.vincentchow.net Vincent

    Australia proxy works great, it’s fast.

  • raja

    my connection too slow yesterday, but not sure is this the reason… they said its happening in entire chennai.

  • raja

    my connection too slow yesterday, but not sure is this the reason… they said its happening in entire chennai.

  • Mr. Bear

    My friend, Mr. Badak, said it is a “CyberTsunami”.

  • Mr. Bear

    My friend, Mr. Badak, said it is a “CyberTsunami”.

  • aMer

    These are australia proxies that work great for me..they are still working at the moment im posting this..

    165.228.132.10
    165.228.128.10
    165.228.133.10
    165.228.130.10

    All of them use port *3128*

  • aMer

    These are australia proxies that work great for me..they are still working at the moment im posting this..

    165.228.132.10
    165.228.128.10
    165.228.133.10
    165.228.130.10

    All of them use port *3128*

  • LcF

    Yes, Australia proxy works great. :)

  • LcF

    Yes, Australia proxy works great. :)

  • http://lampusuluh.blogspot.com/ mr_ombak

    it just give an effect to the internet line, not the phone line. anyway, my internet speed was too slow yesterday. but it’s quite right now even not good as i expected.

  • http://lampusuluh.blogspot.com mr_ombak

    it just give an effect to the internet line, not the phone line. anyway, my internet speed was too slow yesterday. but it’s quite right now even not good as i expected.

  • LcF

    International calls are affected as well.

  • LcF

    International calls are affected as well.

  • http://www.cypherhackz.net/ CypherHackz

    liew, have you read my comment?
    btw if i use proxy, my firefox can’t open websites. :(

  • http://www.cypherhackz.net CypherHackz

    liew, have you read my comment?
    btw if i use proxy, my firefox can’t open websites. :(

  • LcF

    @CypherHackz: yes, i read. thanks for tagging. If you cannot open website after using proxy, try to change another proxy server.

  • LcF

    @CypherHackz: yes, i read. thanks for tagging. If you cannot open website after using proxy, try to change another proxy server.

  • http://www.wongpk.com/ wong

    My apartment one is unable to connect for few days already. But at my friend’s place here, it’s able to connect to any webpage, just slower…

  • http://www.wongpk.com wong

    My apartment one is unable to connect for few days already. But at my friend’s place here, it’s able to connect to any webpage, just slower…

  • http://hangoutthedaneshproject.com/ Danny

    same issue in Penang even with PenangFon. Local sites and normal but anything overseas drops to below 1Kb. This is bad……

  • http://hangoutthedaneshproject.com Danny

    same issue in Penang even with PenangFon. Local sites and normal but anything overseas drops to below 1Kb. This is bad……

  • http://www.chinalawblog.com/ China Law Blog

    Our Shanghai office is without internet access, but Blackberry went live yesterday morning in Shanghai. What is going on elsewhere in China?

  • http://www.chinalawblog.com China Law Blog

    Our Shanghai office is without internet access, but Blackberry went live yesterday morning in Shanghai. What is going on elsewhere in China?

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  • http://www.cypherhackz.net/ CypherHackz

    seems like it is over now. my connection back to normal speed now.

  • http://www.cypherhackz.net CypherHackz

    seems like it is over now. my connection back to normal speed now.

  • http://www.syiok.com/ Malaysia Property

    still doing quite badly after one week of fixing

  • http://www.syiok.com Malaysia Property

    still doing quite badly after one week of fixing

  • bunny

    I can access any websites even local since 30th dec till today. The problem is become worst than before 30th because i still can access some local websites but not now. Is it the same problem or not only the cause of earthquake? It passes already a week to fix it so i think the problem should be going better but not going worst :( (
    I need internet to do my work at home but i cant do anything now….

  • bunny

    I can access any websites even local since 30th dec till today. The problem is become worst than before 30th because i still can access some local websites but not now. Is it the same problem or not only the cause of earthquake? It passes already a week to fix it so i think the problem should be going better but not going worst :( (
    I need internet to do my work at home but i cant do anything now….

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