At 06:17 PM 9/02/2016, Marghanita da Cruz you wrote:
>Thanks - I was about to post and ask what was going on. From the poor
>performance over the last
>week, it seems the cable has been out for about a week already! - I am on
>Optus GSM network and a
>friend who is on Telstra just phoned.
Ha
Thanks - I was about to post and ask what was going on. From the poor
performance over the last
week, it seems the cable has been out for about a week already! - I am on Optus
GSM network and a
friend who is on Telstra just phoned.
On 09/02/16 15:44, Scott Howard wrote:
> PPC1 is around 6,900km
PPC1 is around 6,900km long, so the fault is over 2,300km from Sydney - not
700km. It's also somewhere in the Pacific ocean, not just down the road
from SeaWorld...
The major cause for the delay in fixing it is the fact that the ship that
is normally on standby for repairs like this is currently
Australia has a broken international cable. From the TPG website "The
TPG Network Operations Centre received multiple alarms for the PPC-1
cable system between Sydney and Guam. The alarms indicated that a
submarine line card had lost its payload. "
[I guess this is jargon for something like a brok
