Taiwan’s Earthquakes - Cables Damaged

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The earthquakes scaled from 6.7 to 7.1 richter, in Taiwan on Tuesday November 26th, affected the undersea optical cable, which disrupted the Internet connection to international web sites especially to the US.

I have no problem accessing Gmail, Google nor Adsense web sites. May be they have mirrored site here in Malaysia. I do not know why local sites seem to be a little bit faster than usual. Unfortunately, Yahoomail cannot be accessed at all.

I do not know where this neyokes.com server is located, because the reseller is from Malaysia, but it also extremely slow.

More news about the earthquakes at Reuters Alertnet: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/TP172793.htm

Category: Google, Malaysia

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One Response to “Taiwan’s Earthquakes - Cables Damaged”

  1. Sekoyen’s » Archive » Disable the Preview Window in WordPress 2.0 Says:
    January 10th, 2007 at 1:07 pm

    […] After about a year using Wordpress, just lately I found that the preview window in the write post page is really annoying. All this while I did not realize it because the broadband speed was good, untill the earthquakes near Taiwan damaged the communication cables and dropped the broadband speed accessing overseas web site, including my site. […]

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