See also here TIME response to MCMC complaint:
https://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopi...ost&p=109614445

Theres also other posts on the pages starting 570 of the main topic.

This post has been edited by rezzorix: Apr 25 2024, 08:20 PM

@petpenyubobo it seems you are overthinking this and are a bit too much on a conspiracy path rather than approaching this logically.

1) AAE-1 - 24. Feb 2024: There was a terrorist attack on a boat near Yemen. As a result the boats anchor then cut the cable.
2) SEA-ME-WE 5 - 17.-19. Apr2024: There were maintenance works going on 440km off the coast of Singapore after that salt water penetrated the cable causing an outage.

Even though you see many cables on the map, the 2 cables in question do together 64 Tbits/s (64,000,000 Mbits/s).
The rest of cables together are doing less than that (please correct me if wrong).

Imagine 2 of the biggest, most frequented highways in / around Kuala Lumpur are just closed... because something like that is whats happening.

And thats not enough;
3) in mid March there were several cables cut during a landslide around Africa etc. etc.

Summary:

Due to the issues a lot of traffic has to go different routes and it is not like other cable infrastructure can just take up additional volumes without impact.

What is NOT happening:
Shark bite or anyone trying to cut off SEA from Europe. Makes no sense.

What is happening:
1) Terrorist attack - indirect, yes (AAE-1),
2) Human error, very likely while performing maintenance (SMW-5),
3) Natural disaster, yes (Africa).


What must be done better: Communication from the ISPs to their customers.
Otherwise we will have people go nuts and start making up stories in their minds that are likely not true.

Depends on what VPN provider you are using and how this VPN routes you.

I had pretty good connection via a VPN through Mexico or Japan to Europe while other entry points with same provider had bad performance.

I think it has improved as of this morning.
Need to check performance a bit over the next hours but it could be that the submarine cable is finally fixed…

Ok.. wow... Unifi seems to have much better routing than TIME...

I am giving this until middle of the month, then I change away from TIME to Unifi.

Means Mulvad VPN? Why not write that? 🤣

Theres many VPN out there that offer multi location and tell you also which ones give you best latency to choose from.

Just try it out.

The VPN i use routed to Europe best through Mexico, since yesterday it is the South-Korea location thats better.

Again, it is about trying out what works best.

What I really don’t understand is why TIME or any of the other ISP is not more transparent to their customers. I mentioned it before but i think it is because majority of people who browse FB, IG, TikTok etc are not effected at all as these services use well distributed CDN.

“Peak hours on a Sunday night” 🤣

Edit to clarify: this is in no way meant disrespectful; I just really had to laugh.

This post has been edited by rezzorix: May 5 2024, 11:55 PM

Keyboard warriors do Keyboard warrior things. Thats why 🫣🤣

Can you back that statement up with data?

Because my constantly running smokeping tells otherwise (at least for TIME).

46.235.230.122 is in UK, not Europe mainland.

I would rather take data centres in Marseille, Amsterdam, Frankfurt as reference.

Nothing changed.
I suggest not to just run adhoc pings and judge based on that.

Continuous, long-term monitoring of network latency and packet loss are better for analysis.
Regular ping commands provide only a snapshot in time.

Frankfurt:


Amsterdam:

Awesome!

Maybe also worth pinging Go626201 who has a pretty conclusive smokeping setup here: http://smokeping.mywebping.com/smokeping/
Would be cool if he could share his smokeping config in a zip-file or so - he has soo many servers in there, too much work to copy all

If you would really engage in this forum and also read what other people write, then you would not post this.
Just running a ping and then judging the situation based on that wont give you correct results.

My fault, sorry, didn't mean to come over as someone who scolds.

Just a lot people write in different posts across forum that all is good again - while in reality it isnt. A bit frustrating.

This is what happened:
1) AAE-1 - 24. Feb 2024: There was a terrorist attack on a boat near Yemen. As a result the boats anchor then cut the cable.
2) SEA-ME-WE 5 - 17.-19. Apr2024: There were maintenance works going on 440km off the coast of Singapore after that salt water penetrated the cable causing an outage.

Repair of 2) was estimated to take 2..3 weeks so people are expecting the links again up and better working from around now onwards; however it will take some more time...
Since we are already waiting so long.. add another one or two weeks... who cares

Small update.... TIMEDOTCOM connections to Europe are still bad:

Frankfurt:


Amsterdam:

And another update from my side; still all connections from/to Europe baaaad
My most stable option in terms of latency over the past weeks was a VPN through Mexico City

Frankfurt:


Amsterdam:


Previous update:

I am running uptime kuma with notifications from various locations to check the status lot of my services / servers.

Had to switch notifications off the uptime kuma instance in my home because of too many notifications that stuff is unreachable for prolonged time. Down notification followed by Up again etc.

This really needs to get fixed soon.

And again an update; same bad ..... and you guessed it: no improvement.
But thanks to apocryphite who did share this link with updates, we at least know it will take another month or so.
The communication of Malaysian ISPs about this issue is more than subpar...

Frankfurt:


Amsterdam:


Previous updates:
(21.05.2024)
(30.05.2024)