Second undersea cable break found – Slow Internet speeds set to continue in South Africa through to next week

Following outages on the West Africa Cable System (WACS) and South Atlantic 3 (SAT3) cables yesterday, South Africans have experienced slow speeds when connecting to international websites.

The WACS cable downtime affects most large ISPs in South Africa, including Webafrica, Afrihost, Axxess, and Mind The Speed. Many of these ISPs posted network status updates citing the international cable outage as the cause of slow international connections. Certain ISPs are now routing their traffic via the EASSY cable which is negatively impacting latency.

So for many South Africans right now online gaming is pretty well much out, as is loading of especially slow internal sites. Internet is up but very slow. As these are undersea cables repair time is not going to be a matter of hours. We can expect it to only improve by next week.

See https://mybroadband.co.za/news/internet/335662-second-cable-break-found-slow-internet-speeds-set-to-continue-in-south-africa.html

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#^Second cable break found – Slow Internet speeds set to continue in South Africa

Following outages on the West Africa Cable System (WACS) and South Atlantic 3 (SAT3) cables yesterday, South Africans have experienced slow speeds when connecting to international websites.

source https://gadgeteer.co.za/second-undersea-cable-break-found-slow-internet-speeds-set-continue-south-africa-through-next-week