Today is one of those days when submarine cables get a fault and internet speeds plunge across the country. Reportedly more than one of submarine back-haul fiber optic cables that connect Pakistan with rest of the world are facing some issues and hence the internet speeds, particularly for PTCL customers, are below normal.
While details are coming, it is said that west bound traffic to and from Pakistan is going to get impacted, however, back-up arrangements have been made and put in place to counter the damage.
Bandwidth scarcity on the western segment got affected which is being restored. Alternate arrangements are in place to enhance availability.
— PTCL Cares (@PTCLCares) October 12, 2015
Early reports claims that more than one submarine cables are at fault, hence estimated time required for full recovery may get longer than usual.
With growing internet population of the country and the demand, there is a serious work required to make sure that such faults in submarine cables — that happen every other month — don’t impact the end-user.
While private companies are putting their efforts and money to feed the bandwidth needs of the country, one may wonder if government could play a role to make back-haul connectivity more redundant than what we have today.
Again??!! Ye cables kya china se bnwai hein?? 2 din chali…. phir kharab
China has now good quality, may be made in india or cut by india
Right:-)
made in india means it takes off on earth and reaches mars
made in china…a warning label…means cant be trusted so mount them on russian rockets
and then blame russians
Fun Fact: Indian shuttle landed on Mars cost less then what Rikshaw charge for per mile, its amazing that indian invented their most economical transport to Mars!! Hahaha!! Not to say that toilets are still most expensive there
i can understand the education system there is not that robust and hence u have a hard time reading and writing
no surprise u have no idea about the difference between a rover and a probe
anyways enjoy this article
www​.dawn.com/news/1168630
That why you are luring here! I think at least you need some good educational help, there is a big difference between 41 million people not having ADEQUATE toilets versus 600 million people in Indian WITHOUT toilets. Okay Mr. Smarty!
Its Okay, thanks for pointing that out, in India more than 640 million people are without toilets, anyways enjoy these articles
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/jul/01/billions-have-no-access-to-toilets-says-world-health-organisation-report
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-17362837
https://myeconomist.wordpress.com/60-indians-are-living-without-toilets/
and we are just 41 millions without toilets but we are hygienically clean.
But Buddy we don’t wash ourselves and our buildings with Animal urine. That’s why the multinational companies makes the Indian to lead their companies in India. Must be the Indian smell.
So we are okay and great and always be great :)
hahaha exactly
China produces 3 kind of products
1 For Self
2 For Develovped Countries
3 For Developing Countries
you can say they produce best,better,good respectivly
Anybody Tried this?
My fried did… useless in my opinion…
But yea… you technically can earn a few HUNDRED RUPEES per month…..
May be you chewed that cable in sea!
So laugh i forgot to funny.
What slow…I am fade up of Warid 4G LTE speed these days.
:o
When internet died and mobile data (warid) doesn’t work yesterday, I feel we hav been cursed!
warid a complete garbage internet my personal experience got only 3kbps super speed
Submarine cable na ho gai, PTCL ki copper wire ho gai jo ghar k bahir se bara truck guzzarnay se toot jati ha :D
No league of legends again
Shitty ping in games
This is happening every month now
We have too much satellites but why we are still using submarine cables???
paisay ap k abu dein gae
hhhahahahahha
inn k abbu tau paisy tax ki shakal mein dety hain lekin aap k uncle log kha pi jaaty hain!
Mobilink 3G (BLUE AREA ISB)
https://twitter.com/NaveedKhokhar20/status/653603632894582784
Telenor 3G (BLUE AREA ISB)
https://twitter.com/NaveedKhokhar20/status/653603577991180288
both sucks XD
Why is that so ? 8-10Mbps speed is good on 3G :P
Hi reply fastt MEEE plzz
they sucks overall, I am not going to use 3g sitting home
Still my PeeTCL Wingle is working like normal days. Yesterday, I faced bad browsing temporarily for few hours but everything went back to normal.
not as usual
you are checking speed against a server in pakistan but the issue is connection outside pakistan it slows down data coming from eu and usa servers
Most you are checking speed against a server in pakistan on speedtest but the issue is in
connection outside pakistan with traffic coming and going in EU and USA
PCCW of Hong Kong was trying to sell international bandwidth to LDI operators but thanks to efforts of Transworld in connivance with PTA this has been stopped. TW was scared prices of bandwidth would fall to lowest levels and it would be over for them.
Not entirely correct. There are many in PTA who support this but PTA DG Tariq Sultan is the culprit. He has alliance with TW and is using his influence to block cheap bandwidth to Pakistan and holding whole country hostage. Must be stopped.
YES it is Tariq Sultan but he is Member Finance now. He is in cahoots with TW.
Don’t worry when China will complete it’s fibre optic connectivity with Pakistan it won’t remain this much problematic.
There were some regulatory issues involved in this.
http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/4740546075
But i was getting around 20Mbps on Zong 4g Wingle
You are connected to a Pakistani server. As the article states, an underwater cable carrying traffic from Pakistan to the West (EU, ME,USA etc) and vice versa was affected. As most of the websites are hosted in EU, USA; there are going to be slowdowns.
Yes the above speed showing connectivity with local server but on the other hand i am getting around 15 – 17 mbps on west bound traffic too which is quite strange for me.
Show us the screen shot
bhai mobile companies internet bandwidth PTCL se lyti hain?
Some of them take bandwidth from PTCL. Most of them rely on Transworld.
SEA-ME-WE 3 cable also developed a fault on September 25 so Transworld is facing issues as well.
whatever the case, ptcl will always suck. invest money on nayatel
Zong 4g karachi at 1pm
Evo Wingle 9.3 Karachi Speed at 1:27 PM
Mobilink 3G Speed at 1:32 PM Karachi
Warid 4g Speed Multan
Facing slow internet since I am ? using Ptcl broadband service disappointment internet service by Ptcl all the time ? I am blogger and my works stuck off by slow internet or its not working all a time shame on ptcl