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Old 28th December 2006 | 14:51
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Desertweasel
 
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international bandwidth

Originally Posted by BusyB
Don't know if its relevant to you in the ME but Taiwan earthquake broke 2 major undersea cables and internet very slow in HKG.
this is correct and is because all the far east traffic was routing through our tiny cable, same symptoms as last years cable cutting incident off India, etisalat restrict secure traffic to reduce bandwidth requirements.
If they had decent connections would not happen of course
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