Taiwan Earthquake Disrupts Asia's Internet
December 28th 2006 01:31
Firstly, let me apologize to my readers for not posting updates for quite some time now. The reason was mostly because I am in Malaysia for my holidays. Initially I was going to post up some articles about some gadgets that I have played around with here and write a review on some Slappa products that I recently acquired. Well don't fret, because once I get back to Australia, it will be done.
Another main reason why I hesitated to post up any updates was also because of the slow connection here in Malaysia. Now TM Streamyx (Malaysia's main broadband provider) it not really to be blamed, although compared to my ADSL2 connection in Australia, ADSL here is like going back to using dialup. Nevertheless, connection here has been to a crawl ever since an earthquake in southern Taiwan damaged some submarine cables that are part of the Asia Pacific Cable Network 2 (APCN 2), which is a fibre-optic cable network linking countries like Malaysia, Singapore, Australia, Japan, South Korea, China,, USA and Europe. This earthquake greatly crippled most of Asia's internet conenction; most users in Malaysia having no connection to Gmail services and even Yahoo!.
Since this disruption in service, it has been a pain to update this site. Heck, it took me a good 5 minutes to login to the Orble network. On a last note, it would be interesting to hear from other people around the world (especially Australia) whether their internet connection is affected and how bad is it. Anyway, once the connection speed picks up here, i will be posting a potential contest for a prize for all you loyal readers out there as a new years gift, so be sure to look out for it soon!
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