How's your Internet?

[omikl]

We're buggered here in SE Asia. Unless you haven't heard, an off-shore quake South of Taiwan on Boxing Day damaged two undersea cables that normally carry a large percentage of SE Asia's Internet traffic. Since then we, meaning Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Thailand, Taiwan, China and I guess Laos, Cambodia and the rest are essentially cut-off as all Internet traffic to the rest of the World has clogged up because the back-up routes can't provide sufficient bandwidth. Estimates for repair are in terms of weeks rather than days.

I don't know by what quirk I can access The Womb, everything else times out or loads the first few bytes of the page and stops. Guess I'm ruled out of the upcoming Cape unless they fix it as projected.

Hell, is this what it used to be like in the olden days? :) I might have to read a book or something...

[Tim Halligan]

Could you route through Australia?

Go south, young man!


Cheers,
Tim

[blackieC]

Go south, young man!


Cheers,
Tim


He already is.


The way I heard it, Mixerman got a sweet deal on server space in Antartica. It's a little out of the way but it turns out that penguins make excellent onsite techs and will work for fish.

[Mixerman]

We're buggered here in SE Asia. Unless you haven't heard, an off-shore quake South of Taiwan on Boxing Day damaged two undersea cables that normally carry a large percentage of SE Asia's Internet traffic. Since then we, meaning Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Thailand, Taiwan, China and I guess Laos, Cambodia and the rest are essentially cut-off as all Internet traffic to the rest of the World has clogged up because the back-up routes can't provide sufficient bandwidth. Estimates for repair are in terms of weeks rather than days.

I don't know by what quirk I can access The Womb, everything else times out or loads the first few bytes of the page and stops. Guess I'm ruled out of the upcoming Cape unless they fix it as projected.

Hell, is this what it used to be like in the olden days? :) I might have to read a book or something...

It could have something to do with our server placement. It's on that side of the world.

Mixerman

[seagate]

It could have something to do with our server placement. It's on that side of the world.

Mixerman

How did you end up with a NZ host?

[omikl]

Everything was routed through Hong Kong and then to the States via the rooted cables in question. I think Malaysia's data is now being sent via Singapore & Oz.

It's now painfully slow, but sort of working.

[J.G.]

Yahoooooooooooo--since this morning, I can only access certain sites too, and worsely, no e-mail for bonzo here either.

Bully for Skype.

: J

[Fulcrum]

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[saxplayerz]

Well I think I know what happened. During the show taping, Goes211 took Mixerman and Vark on a little joy ride in his new Yacht. They were playing poker and doing shot's when all of the sudden they heard a loud BANG! and the vessel came to a hault.
The details get a little sketchy from this point as everyone was pretty lit. But I think Goes211 and Chrisj ended up finding the props tied up in cables which they had to cut to free the ship.

http://www.boatingsf.com/photos/firstbatch/sausalito-11.jpg

[Brendo]

See if you can ping any of these, if you can, set it up in your browser as a proxy temporarily and you should be able to access more sites:

So open a dos prompt (start -> run -> type cmd -> hit enter) and then type (without the quotes): "ping ______.cache.telstra.net"... try all of them... pick the one with the lowest time, the lowest "ms" value.

Then, assuming youre using ie, tools -> internet options, on one of the tabs you can enter proxy settings in there.

proxy.cache.telstra.net:3128
melbourne.cache.telstra.net:3128
sydney.cache.telstra.net:3128
perth.cache.telstra.net:3128
adelaide.cache.telstra.net:3128
brisbane.cache.telstra.net:3128

[Watershed]

It could have something to do with our server placement. It's on that side of the world.

Mixerman

Ahh, I had a hunch a couple of weeks back when Aus lost international internet contact for about 12 hours, but I could still access the Womb.

[omikl]

Thanks for the info Brendo. Unfortuntaely we're being routed via Hong Kong for all the Oz traffic as well, so even using a Proxy doesn't help with the reponse times.

Methinks someone for got the ".. so long as there is sufficient redundent bandwidth.." bit out of the resilient comms design manual when they bolted the links together. Presumably when they were designing it to be implementable at the price the sales-droid had negotiated with the client's head bean-counter.
;)

[peter]

See if you can ping any of these, if you can, set it up in your browser as a proxy temporarily and you should be able to access more sites

do like Brendo says. Before its too late (http://stuffucanuse.com/aussie_windows/am.htm).

[MacGregor]

do like Brendo says. Before its too late (http://stuffucanuse.com/aussie_windows/am.htm).

Hehe, that's pretty funny.
Fits nicely there, and the good thing is we Euros have something
solid between us and Georg's country.

[Goes211]

Well I think I know what happened. During the show taping, Goes211 took Mixerman and Vark on a little joy ride in his new Yacht. They were playing poker and doing shot's when all of the sudden they heard a loud BANG! and the vessel came to a hault.
The details get a little sketchy from this point as everyone was pretty lit. But I think Goes211 and Chrisj ended up finding the props tied up in cables which they had to cut to free the ship.

http://www.boatingsf.com/photos/firstbatch/sausalito-11.jpg

Close.
Chris couldn't resist poking at the navigation software of the ship. He just had to write some code himself.
Couldn't leave well enough alone. No siree-bob.
After he'd improved and re-uploaded the navigation software,
we heard a loud thump but our martini glasses didn't even shake. But Chris came back in the lounge looking kinda sheepish.
"Errr...I might have tweaked something I shouldn't have."

:D

[seagate]

do like Brendo says. Before its too late (http://stuffucanuse.com/aussie_windows/am.htm).

:lol: :lol: :lol:

[Tim Halligan]

do like Brendo says. Before its too late (http://stuffucanuse.com/aussie_windows/am.htm).



Popular opinion is that New Zealand moves to occupy Australia's place as the weather is better.


Where's Pimp-X?
:D


No report has come from Tasmania. It is believed that Australia left quietly so Tasmanians wouldn't notice...and want to follow. It appears the ruse has worked. New Zealand has offered to adopt Tasmania as West New Zealand.


Priceless! :lol: :lol: :lol:

Where's Groovr? :D


Cheers,
Tim