Site Issues -Please bear with me.

I have been trying to post for hours. it has been like this for days. Yesterday’s post took me two hours just to post. It is taking me 5 to 10 minutes just to load WordPress. I contacted my site host and they did some checking. Here is what they found:

Hello,

The Savvis investigation has isolated packet loss to the “Telekom
Malaysia Berhad” network. Savvis will be contacting Telekom Malaysia
Berhad on your behalf regarding this issue.

Savvis also advised that you contact your local ISP. They might be able
to resolve the issue faster.

If you need any additional information, please continue the thread at
SureSupport.com

Thank you.

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Best Regards,
Support38
SureSupport.com

So I checked with my ISP, Telekom Malaysia (TM). Here is what they are saying

Telekom Malaysia Berhad (TM) wishes to announce that there is a disruption of its Internet services due to circuits fault on Southeast Asia – Middle East – Western Europe 4 (SMW4) submarine cable network between Palermo (Southern Italy) and Alexandria (Northern Egypt) linking Malaysia to Europe. Due to this, customers using Internet services may now experience slow browsing while accessing websites hosted in Europe.

To alleviate the problem, some of the links have been rerouted to alternate routes to ease the congestion.

Restoration works on the affected cables are already in progress. However, in the restoration process, traffic to Northern America may experience minor degradation while traffic to other countries is not affected. TM expects the complete recovery of its services by December 31, 2008. TM will make further announcements on the progress of the restoration works.

Now, how long do you think it will take to find a broken cable in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea? This could be a while…sigh.

Please stand by…