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International Link Down!

Written by Nicholas Chan on December 27, 2006 – 5:46 am -

TAIWAN: Taiwan on Wednesday assessed the damage after a strong earthquake measuring 7.1 rocked the country, killing two people and wounding at least 42.

Hundreds of rescuers were dispatched to the worst-hit Pingtung area in southern Taiwan where at least three houses were reported to have collapsed and other buildings also suffered damage. ~ Link

Internet connections across the Asia-Pacific region were affected due to damage caused by the earthquake to undersea data cables. ~ Link

The Taiwan earthquake has affected several submarine cable systems in Asia, causing cable cuts near Taiwan late last night,” Singapore Telecom spokesman Chia Boon Chong said by telephone today. “Some customers might experience a slowdown in data or Internet access. Traffic diversion and restoration works are currently in progress.” ~ Link

TAIPEI, Taiwan - A strong earthquake off Taiwan’s southern coast damaged undersea cables, disrupting phone and Internet service Wednesday in much of Taiwan, China and Japan. ~ YahooNews, Link

Yesterday, I can stream HitzRadio.com smoothly. Today wanted to stream again, but don’t know why it so lag and a lot of sites can’t access, like yahoo.com, gmail.com. Even I got 218.xxxxx ip, I still get bad connection. Brother called and ask did I get the same problem, and he told me Taiwan had an earthquake and breakdown all those underground fibre optic cable. Lucky I can get into Live Messenger and Google to search for some news. And indeed real, I can go into local site but not many of those international sites. Now what I can do is had to wait for them to fix it.

Edit : Yahoo.com.my is accessible now @ 2.00pm Yahoo.com can get in but very slow.

UPDATE : Internet connection is now getting better, as for Thursday 29 Dec 2006. Still some web site I can’t get in, www.flickr.com, www.kennysia.com, and some Yahoo service. According to the press, the repairing work will takes up to 5 days, and the work will start on the day after New Year, so will the internet back into shape by 7 Jan? Let’s see, or maybe got surprise?

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