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(Update) Taiwan Earthquake & How To Fix Your Internet
by Josh Lim
December 27 2006 || 4:59 pm
News Articles TM Net Streamyx Asia

29 Dec 2006 - Update:johnleemk has some good tips on how to get your connection up to speed by using foreign proxy servers, Australia in particular.

You’ll also find some tips from the guys at lowyat.net.

Here in my area, I find that not using the proxies seems to work faster for Malaysian/Asian sites, but that’s just for me - your results will definitely vary. But by using the proxies (here’s one: 165.228.130.10, port is 3128) - I find that I can access sites like wikipedia (and perhaps other international sites), which is impossible for me using the default settings.. As discussed in lowyat.net, some people cannot use the proxies.

Also, here’s a useful proxy switching tool for Mozilla Firefox users, for you to quickly switch between proxies.

28 Dec 2006 - Update: Seems like things are improving a bit. Here, between Kelana Jaya and Bandar Utama, I can access slightly more websites than yesterday. And I can actually connect to MSN. RedesignMalaysia.com, and Josh Lim’s comments are also mentioned in the New Straits Times - Taiwan quake brings internet almost to a standstill.

Also, according to this report - Asia’s Internet, phone services to be largely restored today, “nearly all” internet service and 80% phone service is to be restored by noon today. It also also mentioned that four ships with crews will repair the cable on 2 January 2007. It has been said it would take at least 5 days to repair the two undersea damaged cables. Does this mean its safe to say that things will be back to normal by 7 January 2007? Let’s hope its earlier…

Quick update: Just so you know, cable faults due to a Richter 7.1 earthquake in Taiwan has caused slow internet connections in 26 telecommunication companies, including including TM / TM Net Malaysia. So basically you will experience delay accessing sites outside of Malaysia - especially in the US, Japan, China, Taiwan (obviously), Korea & Europe. You can read more about the incident on the TM Net Website.

More: Jefrey Ong bemoans the lack of local internet content and applications - we are pretty dependent on international websites when you think about it. Its funny when he says that he can’t use MSN to message his colleague which is right next to him. Read more about it at the Reapfield Technology blog.

More: Jeff Ooi has more on the topic, with detailed reports & figures: Slow Streamyx to US and Europe? Cable faults due to Richter 7.1 earthquake off Taiwan! Its also mentioned that repair work might take several days.

And, just so you know: The quake has claimed relatively few casualties, thankfully.

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December 27 2006 || 4:59 pm
mrdefinite.com - It’s hot. said..comment

Taiwan Earthquake Causes Internet Services Degradation in Asia

If you are an Internet user from Asia, you’re most probably experiencing a degradation in Internet performance right now due to several outages at some of the international links. The cables that used to link Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Chi…

December 27 2006 || 4:59 pm
sam said..comment

oo, i’m nearby as well. seems like my torrents aren’t working at all. torrents totally blocked? i just came back from cyberjaya, the internet there is fine and at least much better than here. hmm, crummy :(

December 27 2006 || 4:59 pm
Josh Lim said..comment

Sam! Don’t use torrents la! Now’s not the time! :) Try the proxy server suggestion, it might work for the other things (e-mail, web, etc).

December 27 2006 || 4:59 pm
sam said..comment

heh, the torrent’s i’m using is torrenting from local stuff namely a server at Jaring TPM. its a local conference video, I don’t see how limiting the torrenting local stuff like this will ease much congestion on the network. It might affect it somewhat, but then hmm… its no way to make the line any better. hmm, if only the myix is working now… then they wouldn’t have to throttle and block off the local torrents as much.

For now, I can surf at home, just that its slow. MSN and yahoo weren’t working in the afternoon but much better now at night as I can connect and all.

December 27 2006 || 4:59 pm
sniiffit said..comment

Poll : Should TMNET to rebate customers for failure to provide satisfactory services even pre-Taiwan quake? seems to me little has changed. in fact i still get DSLAM errors on my connection even without any usage.

December 27 2006 || 4:59 pm
Chan Lee Meng said..comment

Beware of open and “free” proxies. These could be malicious proxies, i.e. proxies set up by hackers to record, or worse, to alter traffic that passes thru them. By design, a proxy sits between your browser and other websites, and this provides a perfect opportunity for conducting Man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks. More info on my blog.

December 27 2006 || 4:59 pm
tino said..comment

Any update from big brother on this? is to much to ask for a date? they print a big one in their bills, i demand anwser!!!!!!

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