[LINK] Au sites and resources serious lagging

[Nicholas English]

A couple of off link replies suggest there is a bit more movement in the
past hour.

But I can't help it... was that "propositioning BFG" I read? Seriously some
those lines sound like they're straight out of Roald Dahl. :)

Separately, here (UAE) is a telecoms duopoly for anyone apart from certain
infrastructure category operators and 'regional security partners' (sic).
All cross border traffic is via the national proxy. Recently MS support
line (Egypt based) referred users to install HotSpotShield just so they
could download the Windows 8 'upgrade' as it is delivered via a 'blocked'
service.

The number of cables isn't necessarily a measure of supply. Anyone who as
ever looked at some telephone/electricity poles in the region will know
that often more is less.

2 cents (no longer redeemable in Canada)

Nicholas English

Sent from A phone 7-)

On 05/02/2013, at 2:51 PM, tomk <tomk at unwired.com.au> wrote:

On 5/02/2013 5:34 p.m., Paul Brooks wrote:

Something is going on, but I can't tell what. From an end-user perspective
I can't

send/receive email with Optus from an Optus broadband tail, but I can reach
a few

external mail servers elsewhere in AU. The AusNOG list is completely
silent, which is

itself suspicious.


I'm sure the floodgates will be unleashed within a few hours :-)


P.


Um... With intensive solar activity, satellite owners will invariably
elect to switch off rather than loose satelites.
The recent reduction in Television channels suggest that some
transponders have been lost and the current delays are due to rerouting
delays at the BGP level. This is somewhat similar to the Optus "C"
battery run down and subsequent loss of service from 10:00 pm to 4:00 am
during the Winter.

ILS isnt reportiong any flare activity but that maybe because Goes15 has
had some intermittent faults. Other sources indicate continuing activity
at levels that may interfere seriously with transponder functionality.

Ausnog would most probably be quiet because they don't really want to
answer all the neck craners questions and until BGP propagates there is
nothing they can do anyway.

As a backup I seriously suggest obtaining an alternative feed asap as I
am expecting satelite based Internet to become almost unusable in the
near future; (although you have a good selection amongst European
providers.... try Orange)   I'm pretty sure that most of the GCC (larger
towns) have Microwave and fibre links. Etilsat will doubtless be able to
assist depending on which part of the GCC you are in, of course.  There
is more fibre crossing and recrossing that Gulf than most people
realise. It's almost worse than the Thai, Singapore, Brunei, Vietnam
Taiwan basin.

TomK



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