Many people in Asia recently had the unpleasant experience of losing Internet and phone access because of the earthquake that damaged undersea cables. Telecom companies are still trying to repair the damage. We take a lot of things for granted — Internet access, Skype, email but all of these things need high-speed broadband access to operate optimally. It’s interesting to Many people in Asia recently had the unpleasant experience of losing Internet and phone access because of the earthquake that damaged undersea cables. Telecom companies are still trying to repair the damage. We take a lot of things for granted — Internet access, Skype, email but all of these things need high-speed broadband access to operate optimally. It’s interesting to see how vulnerable networks are to natural (and man-made) disasters.
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With the scheduled repairs will probably take 3 weeks, I decided to help the asians surfers a bit by how to overcome their “speed” and “connection” problems on my blog.
Check Survivor’s Guide To Internet Outage