Slow speeds on BSNL Broadband

[mgcarley]

(reposting the same information I've mentioned in another thread, so please excuse me)There was an underwater cable cut near Egypt on March 27th which affected SEA-ME-WE 4 (the primary cable between India and Europe, part-owned by Airtel) to the point where it might as well be offline completely.Unfortunately, the cut came at a time when SEACOM (part-owned by Tata) and EIG (part-owned by Airtel) are currently undergoing maintenance, and I-ME-WE (part owned by Airtel) has a fault on it as well.In short, pretty much every major cable between Asia and Europe (excepe Reliance's FLAG, which has minimal capacity spare) is currently crippled, down or undergoing maintenance and as a result, they can't even just do what they'd normally do and fail-over traffic on one cable to another. Naturally, this has resulted in slow traffic between Asia (including India), parts of the Middle East and Europe, and on pretty much every ISP.The date for the first 3 to be fixed is scheduled to be around April 20th, after which I-ME-WE will be taken offline for servicing (for probably around 2-3 weeks at a guess).

 

[Kunal Roy]

At least Reliance isn't affected.

 

[zoe20]

still its not fixed?

 

[Last-Warrior]

mgcarley has provide good info about the situation. but i am surprised to see my latency to european servers is higher than to the US ones. I am getting 315ms ping to london whereas it is around 260ms to new york. tracert shows the US bound traffic routed through London. strange !

 

[Last-Warrior]

and the situation improved again.hope this time it last a bit longer.
https://www.speedtest.net

 

[Sushubh]

BSNL is crawling at my place right now. Have tried restarting the modem several times. Usually does not happen at night time.

 

[Nishant]

Lol. Same here. Started a while ago.

 

[Sushubh]

Yeah. Around an hour ago.

 

[ghpk]

this was reason I threw it out of home, it was a torture from friday evenings to monday mornings.
And who so ever answered the call in local office always said its down from chandigarh, delhi, banglore and what not, only thing he knew was their local
equipment was on God Mode :nono: and cannot be down for even a single sec while this was so Untrue realistically.

 

[Sushubh]

Got fixed an hour ago.