"The Waiting" by Morteza KatouzianAnd yet another cable cut in the FOG cable (sea fiber cable linking Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar and Dubai) happened 2 days ago, on 31st. March 8:30 PM.
This is the 4th cable cut that affects Kuwait internet in the last THREE MONTHS only *mumble grumble*
And to top it off, our Ministry of Communications officially tells us it has NO MORE capacity for ISP's to purchase to cross over the Khafji border into Saudi (The Saudi side has bandwidth to offer, but our side doesn't, because there's no minister to take the decision of buying the new equipment. We're talking no more than 20k-40k KD here).
So now we are about 20% down from our normal bandwidth capacity, which explains the congestion and latency last night. The latest update is that the ship reached the cable off the shore of Dubai last night, and estimated time to finish is 4 more days. Will update you inshalla.
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Update 6th. April, 2009
The cable is now fixed since last night, and they began testing it and bringing the downed circuits back up this morning around 9:30 AM.
il7emdella 3alassalama
This is the 4th cable cut that affects Kuwait internet in the last THREE MONTHS only *mumble grumble*
And to top it off, our Ministry of Communications officially tells us it has NO MORE capacity for ISP's to purchase to cross over the Khafji border into Saudi (The Saudi side has bandwidth to offer, but our side doesn't, because there's no minister to take the decision of buying the new equipment. We're talking no more than 20k-40k KD here).
So now we are about 20% down from our normal bandwidth capacity, which explains the congestion and latency last night. The latest update is that the ship reached the cable off the shore of Dubai last night, and estimated time to finish is 4 more days. Will update you inshalla.
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Update 6th. April, 2009
The cable is now fixed since last night, and they began testing it and bringing the downed circuits back up this morning around 9:30 AM.
il7emdella 3alassalama
2 comments:
ahhh! i feel for you! :P
allah y3enkom
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