Snail like internet connection

UPDATE: “Repairing the cables harmed by Tuesday’s 6.7-magnitude quake could take three weeks but “quality will improve day by day,” said Lin Jen-hung, vice general manager of Chunghwa Telecom Co., Taiwan’s largest phone company.“

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I tried to ping several websites and most of them didn’t show any response.

ping www.google.com

Pinging www.l.google.com [72.14.235.99] with 32 bytes of data:

Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.

Ping statistics for 72.14.235.99:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),

ping www.yahoo.com

Pinging www.yahoo-ht2.akadns.net [209.73.186.238] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 209.73.186.238: bytes=32 time=591ms TTL=37
Reply from 209.73.186.238: bytes=32 time=586ms TTL=37
Request timed out.
Request timed out.

Ping statistics for 209.73.186.238:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 2, Lost = 2 (50% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 586ms, Maximum = 591ms, Average = 588ms

Then it was in the news that Taiwan has been hit by an earthquake. It also mentioned that 6 submarine cables which are for communication are not working due to the earthquake

“…“(Six) submarine cables are not working due to the earthquake near Taiwan. We are making best efforts to restore the service in a speedy manner,” the company said in a statement to Reuters. An official from Chunghwa Telecom <2412.tw>, Taiwan’s largest telecoms operator, said none of its lines were disrupted but some businesses reported problems on Wednesday morning… “
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That could be the cause for the sluggish line. So instead of us surfing directly to US we might taking detours to different countries before eventually reaching the site we want. But there are still some sites that can’t seem to load. At first i myself couldn’t get connected to blogger.com and thus i resorted in using proxy. Right now i am connected to France and everything is in french

This is an announcement from Jaring:

[English Version]

1. This announcement is addressed to all our JARING Customers.

2. We would like to inform you that our International link is having problem started on December 27, 2006 at about 3:45 am.

3. The telecommunication provider is working on rectifying the problem.

4. Users may experience slow access to/from overseas sites during peak hours.

5. We apologize for any inconvenience caused.

6. Thank you.

JARING Network Operation Center

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It should take a day or two before things get back to normal. Even MMU has put up a notice