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TMnet Announced the problem...
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TestMan
2005-04-07 05:59:53 UTC
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Thursday, April 07, 2005


TMNET TEMPORARY SERVICE INTERRUPTION


This is to announce that TM Net Sdn Bhd's Internet service is currently
experiencing a slight drop in performance caused by several outages due to
service degradation at some of its international links to Singapore, Hong
Kong, China, Korea, Japan, Thailand and United States. Our multiple link
providers which subscribe to the international carriers are still trying to
restore their system for TM Net service.



TM Net is currently running slightly short on international capacity due to
the problem. The congestion will be alleviated as soon as the international
carriers fully restore their services for our connectivity. Meanwhile, we
have taken immediate action to divert some traffic through our tmnet
Eastgate service as well as to other back-up links to reduce the Internet
international traffic congestion. The international providers are carrying
out rectification works in stages and we will be making an announcement when
the service has resumed to normal.



TM Net Sdn Bhd apologizes for any inconvenience caused but at the same time
we would like to assure you that what we are doing is necessary in order to
restore the service as soon as possible.



Customers can call our TM Net Customer Interaction Center at 1-300-88-9515
or 1-300-88-1515 from 8:00 a.m. till midnight or email at ***@tm.net.my
for further enquiries about the service.

read the actual one here;

http://www.tm.net.my/html/news_details.cfm?id=346&type=News&pg=1


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Dr. Alex®
2005-04-07 06:13:44 UTC
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Well done guys... at least we are not left in the dark. Good luck.

Cheers,
Alex
Post by TestMan
Thursday, April 07, 2005
TMNET TEMPORARY SERVICE INTERRUPTION
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Paul Tan
2005-04-07 06:19:17 UTC
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Jaring also announced. Apparently the problems started at the same time?
Probably a regional issue.

1. This announcement is addressed to all JARING Members.

2. We would like to inform you of a slow browsing speeds when attempting
to access the international sites which started at 6:20 am on April 7, 2005.

3. Users may experience slow access/browsing performance, however
sending/receiving e-mail to/from overseas will not be affected.

4. We are still working towards rectifying the problem. We will keep you
posted as we get these matters resolved.

5. We apologize for any inconvenience caused.

6. Thank you.


JARING Network Operation Center
Starwing @ Work
2005-04-07 09:17:01 UTC
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Just confirmed something.

TMnet is routing some of their traffic to Jaring, hence the slow down.

You see, this is what happen when you dont have a redundant backups.
Post by Paul Tan
Jaring also announced. Apparently the problems started at the same time?
Probably a regional issue.
1. This announcement is addressed to all JARING Members.
2. We would like to inform you of a slow browsing speeds when attempting
to access the international sites which started at 6:20 am on April 7, 2005.
3. Users may experience slow access/browsing performance, however
sending/receiving e-mail to/from overseas will not be affected.
4. We are still working towards rectifying the problem. We will keep you
posted as we get these matters resolved.
5. We apologize for any inconvenience caused.
6. Thank you.
JARING Network Operation Center
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togarashi
2005-04-07 14:26:08 UTC
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Jaring also announced that work is being done to the B Jalil node. Strange
coincidence the work was supposed to be completed at 6.00am 7April2005.
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Post by Paul Tan
Jaring also announced. Apparently the problems started at the same time?
Probably a regional issue.
1. This announcement is addressed to all JARING Members.
2. We would like to inform you of a slow browsing speeds when attempting
to access the international sites which started at 6:20 am on April 7, 2005.
3. Users may experience slow access/browsing performance, however
sending/receiving e-mail to/from overseas will not be affected.
4. We are still working towards rectifying the problem. We will keep you
posted as we get these matters resolved.
5. We apologize for any inconvenience caused.
6. Thank you.
JARING Network Operation Center
tjb
2005-04-07 08:46:19 UTC
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TMNet call it "a slight drop in performance". They still can't own up
to the truth with their customers. If I had a "slight drop in
performance" in my car I might consider I'd lost 10%, but the loss in
performance of our international links must be running at well over 50%
which I would call a "serious loss in performance". Jaring at least say
"slow access" and thus are, as usual, more honest with their customers.

tjb
Post by TestMan
Thursday, April 07, 2005
TMNET TEMPORARY SERVICE INTERRUPTION
This is to announce that TM Net Sdn Bhd's Internet service is currently
experiencing a slight drop in performance caused by several outages due to
service degradation at some of its international links to Singapore, Hong
Kong, China, Korea, Japan, Thailand and United States. Our multiple link
providers which subscribe to the international carriers are still trying to
restore their system for TM Net service.
TM Net is currently running slightly short on international capacity due to
the problem. The congestion will be alleviated as soon as the international
carriers fully restore their services for our connectivity. Meanwhile, we
have taken immediate action to divert some traffic through our tmnet
Eastgate service as well as to other back-up links to reduce the Internet
international traffic congestion. The international providers are carrying
out rectification works in stages and we will be making an announcement when
the service has resumed to normal.
TM Net Sdn Bhd apologizes for any inconvenience caused but at the same time
we would like to assure you that what we are doing is necessary in order to
restore the service as soon as possible.
Customers can call our TM Net Customer Interaction Center at 1-300-88-9515
for further enquiries about the service.
read the actual one here;
http://www.tm.net.my/html/news_details.cfm?id=346&type=News&pg=1
Starwing @ Work
2005-04-07 09:18:44 UTC
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Actually you are quite wrong when you said TMnet lied.

TMnet itself is a nut, therefore it has got a second name called TMnut.

Now, this nut, in its original form is really slow, and when it comes to
situation like this case, it became slower.

So from slow to slower, is considered "a slight drop in performance"
Post by tjb
TMNet call it "a slight drop in performance". They still can't own up
to the truth with their customers. If I had a "slight drop in
performance" in my car I might consider I'd lost 10%, but the loss in
performance of our international links must be running at well over 50%
which I would call a "serious loss in performance". Jaring at least say
"slow access" and thus are, as usual, more honest with their customers.
tjb
Post by TestMan
Thursday, April 07, 2005
TMNET TEMPORARY SERVICE INTERRUPTION
This is to announce that TM Net Sdn Bhd's Internet service is
currently experiencing a slight drop in performance caused by several
outages due to service degradation at some of its international links
to Singapore, Hong Kong, China, Korea, Japan, Thailand and United
States. Our multiple link providers which subscribe to the
international carriers are still trying to restore their system for TM
Net service.
TM Net is currently running slightly short on international capacity
due to the problem. The congestion will be alleviated as soon as the
international carriers fully restore their services for our
connectivity. Meanwhile, we have taken immediate action to divert
some traffic through our tmnet Eastgate service as well as to other
back-up links to reduce the Internet international traffic
congestion. The international providers are carrying out
rectification works in stages and we will be making an announcement
when the service has resumed to normal.
TM Net Sdn Bhd apologizes for any inconvenience caused but at the same
time we would like to assure you that what we are doing is necessary
in order to restore the service as soon as possible.
Customers can call our TM Net Customer Interaction Center at
1-300-88-9515 or 1-300-88-1515 from 8:00 a.m. till midnight or email
read the actual one here;
http://www.tm.net.my/html/news_details.cfm?id=346&type=News&pg=1
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tjb
2005-04-07 09:36:16 UTC
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I would never suggest that they had lied. What I said was that they
didn't own up to the truth, which is not quite the same thing :)

But I do follow your logic.

tjb
Post by Starwing @ Work
Actually you are quite wrong when you said TMnet lied.
TMnet itself is a nut, therefore it has got a second name called TMnut.
Now, this nut, in its original form is really slow, and when it comes to
situation like this case, it became slower.
So from slow to slower, is considered "a slight drop in performance"
Post by tjb
TMNet call it "a slight drop in performance". They still can't own up
to the truth with their customers. If I had a "slight drop in
performance" in my car I might consider I'd lost 10%, but the loss in
performance of our international links must be running at well over
50% which I would call a "serious loss in performance". Jaring at
least say "slow access" and thus are, as usual, more honest with their
customers.
tjb
Post by TestMan
Thursday, April 07, 2005
TMNET TEMPORARY SERVICE INTERRUPTION
This is to announce that TM Net Sdn Bhd's Internet service is
currently experiencing a slight drop in performance caused by several
outages due to service degradation at some of its international links
to Singapore, Hong Kong, China, Korea, Japan, Thailand and United
States. Our multiple link providers which subscribe to the
international carriers are still trying to restore their system for
TM Net service.
TM Net is currently running slightly short on international capacity
due to the problem. The congestion will be alleviated as soon as the
international carriers fully restore their services for our
connectivity. Meanwhile, we have taken immediate action to divert
some traffic through our tmnet Eastgate service as well as to other
back-up links to reduce the Internet international traffic
congestion. The international providers are carrying out
rectification works in stages and we will be making an announcement
when the service has resumed to normal.
TM Net Sdn Bhd apologizes for any inconvenience caused but at the
same time we would like to assure you that what we are doing is
necessary in order to restore the service as soon as possible.
Customers can call our TM Net Customer Interaction Center at
1-300-88-9515 or 1-300-88-1515 from 8:00 a.m. till midnight or email
read the actual one here;
http://www.tm.net.my/html/news_details.cfm?id=346&type=News&pg=1
Rayson
2005-04-07 11:13:43 UTC
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7.13pm, still isn't any improvement :-(
Post by tjb
I would never suggest that they had lied. What I said was that they
didn't own up to the truth, which is not quite the same thing :)
But I do follow your logic.
tjb
Post by Starwing @ Work
Actually you are quite wrong when you said TMnet lied.
TMnet itself is a nut, therefore it has got a second name called TMnut.
Now, this nut, in its original form is really slow, and when it comes to
situation like this case, it became slower.
So from slow to slower, is considered "a slight drop in performance"
Post by tjb
TMNet call it "a slight drop in performance". They still can't own up
to the truth with their customers. If I had a "slight drop in
performance" in my car I might consider I'd lost 10%, but the loss in
performance of our international links must be running at well over
50% which I would call a "serious loss in performance". Jaring at
least say "slow access" and thus are, as usual, more honest with their
customers.
tjb
Post by TestMan
Thursday, April 07, 2005
TMNET TEMPORARY SERVICE INTERRUPTION
This is to announce that TM Net Sdn Bhd's Internet service is
currently experiencing a slight drop in performance caused by several
outages due to service degradation at some of its international links
to Singapore, Hong Kong, China, Korea, Japan, Thailand and United
States. Our multiple link providers which subscribe to the
international carriers are still trying to restore their system for
TM Net service.
TM Net is currently running slightly short on international capacity
due to the problem. The congestion will be alleviated as soon as the
international carriers fully restore their services for our
connectivity. Meanwhile, we have taken immediate action to divert
some traffic through our tmnet Eastgate service as well as to other
back-up links to reduce the Internet international traffic
congestion. The international providers are carrying out
rectification works in stages and we will be making an announcement
when the service has resumed to normal.
TM Net Sdn Bhd apologizes for any inconvenience caused but at the
same time we would like to assure you that what we are doing is
necessary in order to restore the service as soon as possible.
Customers can call our TM Net Customer Interaction Center at
1-300-88-9515 or 1-300-88-1515 from 8:00 a.m. till midnight or email
read the actual one here;
http://www.tm.net.my/html/news_details.cfm?id=346&type=News&pg=1
i***@my-deja.com
2005-04-07 12:14:29 UTC
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anyone ever checked your ping time? I am getting 3000-4000 ms easily
with most oversea sites. Yahoo is between 2000-3000ms and even google
is 700ms+.
niel
2005-04-07 15:22:44 UTC
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Yeah... I am on Atlasone broadband, full speed surfing :)))

No wonder today speed is much much faster than usual, lesser people fighting
for bandwidth with me :D
Starwing @ Work
2005-04-08 01:55:17 UTC
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niel, I am trying to get in touch with AtlasOne people, do you have any
idea who can I call ? Preferbly the Sales/marketing ppl ?
Post by niel
Yeah... I am on Atlasone broadband, full speed surfing :)))
No wonder today speed is much much faster than usual, lesser people fighting
for bandwidth with me :D
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niel
2005-04-08 13:59:59 UTC
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The sales/marketing ppl are very reluctant to do any sales. I was asking for
a service since end of Nov 2004 until mid-March only got the service. The
management of the company is terrible according to their contractors, hope
they have improve by now. In terms of service, I would say not bad, perhaps
I am lucky to fall into an area without any other users. :)

Drop me some words to my email and I will pass you the phone number and
person to speak to.

Thanks.

email : m a i l n i e l a t g m a i l d o t c o m
Post by Starwing @ Work
niel, I am trying to get in touch with AtlasOne people, do you have any
idea who can I call ? Preferbly the Sales/marketing ppl ?
Post by niel
Yeah... I am on Atlasone broadband, full speed surfing :)))
No wonder today speed is much much faster than usual, lesser people
fighting for bandwidth with me :D
--
BIND, the Buggy Internet Name Daemon is like Microsoft Windows. The damn
thing doesn't work. Every version has been brimming with bugs.
Starwing @ Work
2005-04-26 07:42:41 UTC
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I managed to get in touch with them after doing a look on your IP
address. Called them up, and you are right, they are very reluctant in
doing sales.

Do you know which base station are you using? I might need your help
with some traceroutes. Their sales team is not giving me much info.
Post by niel
The sales/marketing ppl are very reluctant to do any sales. I was asking for
a service since end of Nov 2004 until mid-March only got the service. The
management of the company is terrible according to their contractors, hope
they have improve by now. In terms of service, I would say not bad, perhaps
I am lucky to fall into an area without any other users. :)
Drop me some words to my email and I will pass you the phone number and
person to speak to.
Thanks.
email : m a i l n i e l a t g m a i l d o t c o m
Post by Starwing @ Work
niel, I am trying to get in touch with AtlasOne people, do you have any
idea who can I call ? Preferbly the Sales/marketing ppl ?
Post by niel
Yeah... I am on Atlasone broadband, full speed surfing :)))
No wonder today speed is much much faster than usual, lesser people
fighting for bandwidth with me :D
--
BIND, the Buggy Internet Name Daemon is like Microsoft Windows. The damn
thing doesn't work. Every version has been brimming with bugs.
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BIND, the Buggy Internet Name Daemon is like Microsoft Windows. The damn
thing doesn't work. Every version has been brimming with bugs.
Timmermans
2005-05-11 02:32:33 UTC
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Anyone have the internet address of Atlasone?
Post by niel
Yeah... I am on Atlasone broadband, full speed surfing :)))
User61
2005-04-07 13:24:45 UTC
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Post by tjb
TMNet call it "a slight drop in performance". They still can't own
up
Post by tjb
to the truth with their customers. If I had a "slight drop in
performance" in my car I might consider I'd lost 10%, but the loss in
performance of our international links must be running at well over
50%
Post by tjb
which I would call a "serious loss in performance". Jaring at least
say
Post by tjb
"slow access" and thus are, as usual, more honest with their
customers.
Post by tjb
tjb
My thoughts exactly. When I first read that, I thought to myself "what
the..". "a slight drop in performance?" The frustration of loading
sites like BBC News and CNN is already enough to drive me crazy.
Arahant
2005-04-08 09:18:11 UTC
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Post by tjb
TMNet call it "a slight drop in performance". They still can't own
up
Post by tjb
to the truth with their customers. If I had a "slight drop in
performance" in my car I might consider I'd lost 10%, but the loss in
performance of our international links must be running at well over
50%
Post by tjb
which I would call a "serious loss in performance". Jaring at least
say
Post by tjb
"slow access" and thus are, as usual, more honest with their
customers.
Post by tjb
tjb
I think they were right on the dot when they describe the outage as "a
slight drop in performance". Under normal working condition, the
Streamyx service is already very slow. Now, it is extremely slow. The
gap between "very slow" and "extremely slow" is small, therefore a
slight drop in performance.

Cheers
Eugene
Philip Chee
2005-04-07 11:18:01 UTC
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Post by TestMan
Thursday, April 07, 2005
TMNET TEMPORARY SERVICE INTERRUPTION
This is to announce that TM Net Sdn Bhd's Internet service is currently
experiencing a slight drop in performance caused by several outages due to
service degradation at some of its international links to Singapore, Hong
Kong, China, Korea, Japan, Thailand and United States. Our multiple link
providers which subscribe to the international carriers are still trying to
restore their system for TM Net service.
What, don't tell me tmnet forgot to pay their international phone bills?

Philip
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Rayson
2005-04-07 12:48:30 UTC
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perhaps, we late for one day also cut us, could be they squander our money
to pay up their debt.
Post by Philip Chee
Post by TestMan
Thursday, April 07, 2005
TMNET TEMPORARY SERVICE INTERRUPTION
This is to announce that TM Net Sdn Bhd's Internet service is currently
experiencing a slight drop in performance caused by several outages due to
service degradation at some of its international links to Singapore, Hong
Kong, China, Korea, Japan, Thailand and United States. Our multiple link
providers which subscribe to the international carriers are still trying to
restore their system for TM Net service.
What, don't tell me tmnet forgot to pay their international phone bills?
Philip
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oh Night, and so be good for us to pass.
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S.H.Gan
2005-04-07 14:00:33 UTC
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Post by Philip Chee
What, don't tell me tmnet forgot to pay their international phone bills?
I think both TMnet and Jaring didn't pay their electricity bills and
Tenaga Nasional cut their power. :-)

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Rayson
2005-04-08 06:24:28 UTC
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take a look at http://www.singnet.com.sg
Post by TestMan
Thursday, April 07, 2005
TMNET TEMPORARY SERVICE INTERRUPTION
This is to announce that TM Net Sdn Bhd's Internet service is currently
experiencing a slight drop in performance caused by several outages due to
service degradation at some of its international links to Singapore, Hong
Kong, China, Korea, Japan, Thailand and United States. Our multiple link
providers which subscribe to the international carriers are still trying to
restore their system for TM Net service.
TM Net is currently running slightly short on international capacity due to
the problem. The congestion will be alleviated as soon as the
international
Post by TestMan
carriers fully restore their services for our connectivity. Meanwhile, we
have taken immediate action to divert some traffic through our tmnet
Eastgate service as well as to other back-up links to reduce the Internet
international traffic congestion. The international providers are carrying
out rectification works in stages and we will be making an announcement when
the service has resumed to normal.
TM Net Sdn Bhd apologizes for any inconvenience caused but at the same time
we would like to assure you that what we are doing is necessary in order to
restore the service as soon as possible.
Customers can call our TM Net Customer Interaction Center at 1-300-88-9515
or 1-300-88-1515 from 8:00 a.m. till midnight or email at
for further enquiries about the service.
read the actual one here;
http://www.tm.net.my/html/news_details.cfm?id=346&type=News&pg=1
Teana
2005-04-08 09:23:08 UTC
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Folks, looks like the wait could be up to 20th April for service to be
back to normal

See Jeff Ooi's blog at:

http://www.jeffooi.com/archives/2005/04/royal_flush_for_1.php#more

Reproduced after Singtel's quote below.

Don't we all wonder the reasons TMNet is trying to underinform us on the
situation. Why not come clean instead of the PR statement on their web
page. After all, it's not their fault.

We can't get these facts from our local news media and have to resort to
alternative sources of information. So much said for confidence and
credibilty of our local press.

Incidentally, when calling up 1-300-88-9515, the VADS staff insists that
the cause is the process of upgrading facilities by TMNet engineers for
customers good. That's utter PR bullshit.

Singnet's notice to their customers read:

[Begin Quote]

Announcement

Some Internet users in Singapore and other parts of Asia may experience
some delay when assessing websites hosted outside of Singapore today. This
is due to a cable failure in the Asia Pacific Cable Network-2 (APCN-2)
reported on 7 April 2005.

SingTel is working closely with the cable restoration team led by Reach in
Hong Kong as the cable failure occurred in East Asia.

At the same time, SingTel is also working with other members of the APCN2
consortium to restore service by using other cable networks in this region.

We expect the service level of Internet access to be normalised by the end
of today.

We apologize to our customers for any inconvenience caused.

Last updated 8 April 2005

[End Quote]

However, Jeef Ooi's Screenshoots has this to report:

http://www.jeffooi.com/archives/2005/04/royal_flush_for_1.php#more

[Begin Quote]

Friday, April 08, 2005
Royal flush for Datuk Wong... ( 2 )

While Wong Sulong is having lunch, let me skip mine to help him with some
info on the TM Net international link outage.

There were two simultaneous major faults which disrupted international
links.

( 1 ) The fault at Asia Pacific Cable Network 2 (APCN2) cable S8S
(Philippine - Katong) - near BU4 in segment 8 - will only be recovered by
1200UTC (20:00 hr Malaysia Time), April 9.

( 2 ) A fault was detected at S3 (HongKong - Shanghai) on April 6, and the
ring switch is being implemented in the interim. Repair work will only
commence on April 16, with expected date of completion on April 20 -
subject to the weather condition. The cable ship is now on its way to the
location, about 594km from Shanghai-Chongming cable station.

In other words, the traffic of APCN2 will only be back to service upon the
completion of S8 cable repair and the successful implementation of S3 ring
switch 1200UTC tomorrow - the earliest, fingers crossed.

Click More! to view a piece of critical information reader Raymond Foo
relayed to me, from an industry source.

* * *

I hope Datuk Wong's news desk has managed to call Kenneth Tam (forget
about his boss) at the number I gave him.

You know how much I hate PR statements ending up on the national pages on
your paper.

* * *

Can someone please tell TM Net CEO to talk straight. Tell him that, coming
into the second day of service disruption, his company's repetitive
description of 'slight drop in performance' and 'slightly short on
international capacity' are still plain BULLSHIT and HORSESHIT 2-in-1.

Tell Baharum that Telekom Malaysia (TM) is a key stake-holder in APCN2.
Also tell him that the fault at APCN2 cable S8S (Philippine - Katong) was
detected last Sunday, on April 3. Not last night.

Dear Sir,

Here is the latest status of the APCN2 cable repairement status:

APCN2 cable S8S (Philippine - Katong) and S3 (HongKong - Shanghai)
failure #

The first fault point is near BU4 in segment 8. Cable ship Retriever
had commenced the investigation since 3-April. Due to the simultaneous
failure of S3. The investigation was ceased and it commenced cable
re-joining. Expected the segment be back to service at 1200UTC 9-April.

Another cable cut appeared at S3 on 2202UTC 6-April. The fault is
about 594km from Shanghai Chongming cable station. Due to the double fault
situation, the ring switch at S8 was defeated and it caused traffic
interruption. Carriers are doing the best effort to restore the service
via their own facility.

Upon the completion of S8 cable repair and the successful
implementation of S3 ring switch on 9-April, the traffic of APCN2 will be
back to service.

Cable ship KDD Ocean Link is dispatched for the S3 repair. The ship is
expected to commence repair on 16-April and the repair be completed on
20-April, subject to the weather condition.


Posted by jeffooi at April 8, 2005 01:22 PM

[End Quote]

Who do we believe ? TMnet ? Singtel ? or the APCN2 statement.
Post by Rayson
take a look at http://www.singnet.com.sg
Post by TestMan
Thursday, April 07, 2005
TMNET TEMPORARY SERVICE INTERRUPTION
This is to announce that TM Net Sdn Bhd's Internet service is currently
experiencing a slight drop in performance caused by several outages due to
service degradation at some of its international links to Singapore, Hong
Kong, China, Korea, Japan, Thailand and United States. Our multiple link
providers which subscribe to the international carriers are still trying
to
Post by TestMan
restore their system for TM Net service.
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Teana
2005-04-08 09:49:33 UTC
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Calls to 1-30088-9515 have been greeted by engaged tone since around lunch
time today.

Just had a call from an associate unaware of the situation.

He called to ask whether he should upgrade to the 1Mbit package.

Apparently he got through to VADS people at 1 300 88 9515 who told him
that to improve his browsing speed, he should upgrade to the 1 Mbits
package.

Wow, what an opportunistic way to bump up revenue.
Post by Teana
Folks, looks like the wait could be up to 20th April for service to be
back to normal
http://www.jeffooi.com/archives/2005/04/royal_flush_for_1.php#more
Reproduced after Singtel's quote below.
Don't we all wonder the reasons TMNet is trying to underinform us on the
situation. Why not come clean instead of the PR statement on their web
page. After all, it's not their fault.
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tjb
2005-04-08 09:45:31 UTC
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As I read the comprehensive statement of the problem posted elsewhere on
this Group news://news.tm.net.my:119/4256295b$***@news.tm.net.my

the system will be back up tomorrow 1200UCT but the second cable repair
will not be complete until 20th April; so during this period there will
not be the normal duplicate capability in case anything goes wrong. The
first cable break did not cause a 'down'. Only when the second one
happened did we start to see problems.

tjb
Post by Teana
Folks, looks like the wait could be up to 20th April for service to be
back to normal
http://www.jeffooi.com/archives/2005/04/royal_flush_for_1.php#more
Reproduced after Singtel's quote below.
Don't we all wonder the reasons TMNet is trying to underinform us on the
situation. Why not come clean instead of the PR statement on their web
page. After all, it's not their fault.
We can't get these facts from our local news media and have to resort to
alternative sources of information. So much said for confidence and
credibilty of our local press.
Incidentally, when calling up 1-300-88-9515, the VADS staff insists that
the cause is the process of upgrading facilities by TMNet engineers for
customers good. That's utter PR bullshit.
[Begin Quote]
Announcement
Some Internet users in Singapore and other parts of Asia may experience
some delay when assessing websites hosted outside of Singapore today.
This is due to a cable failure in the Asia Pacific Cable Network-2
(APCN-2) reported on 7 April 2005.
SingTel is working closely with the cable restoration team led by Reach
in Hong Kong as the cable failure occurred in East Asia.
At the same time, SingTel is also working with other members of the
APCN2 consortium to restore service by using other cable networks in
this region.
We expect the service level of Internet access to be normalised by the
end of today.
We apologize to our customers for any inconvenience caused.
Last updated 8 April 2005
[End Quote]
http://www.jeffooi.com/archives/2005/04/royal_flush_for_1.php#more
[Begin Quote]
Friday, April 08, 2005
Royal flush for Datuk Wong... ( 2 )
While Wong Sulong is having lunch, let me skip mine to help him with
some info on the TM Net international link outage.
There were two simultaneous major faults which disrupted international
links.
( 1 ) The fault at Asia Pacific Cable Network 2 (APCN2) cable S8S
(Philippine - Katong) - near BU4 in segment 8 - will only be recovered
by 1200UTC (20:00 hr Malaysia Time), April 9.
( 2 ) A fault was detected at S3 (HongKong - Shanghai) on April 6, and
the ring switch is being implemented in the interim. Repair work will
only commence on April 16, with expected date of completion on April 20
- subject to the weather condition. The cable ship is now on its way to
the location, about 594km from Shanghai-Chongming cable station.
In other words, the traffic of APCN2 will only be back to service upon
the completion of S8 cable repair and the successful implementation of
S3 ring switch 1200UTC tomorrow - the earliest, fingers crossed.
Click More! to view a piece of critical information reader Raymond Foo
relayed to me, from an industry source.
* * *
I hope Datuk Wong's news desk has managed to call Kenneth Tam (forget
about his boss) at the number I gave him.
You know how much I hate PR statements ending up on the national pages
on your paper.
* * *
Can someone please tell TM Net CEO to talk straight. Tell him that,
coming into the second day of service disruption, his company's
repetitive description of 'slight drop in performance' and 'slightly
short on international capacity' are still plain BULLSHIT and HORSESHIT
2-in-1.
Tell Baharum that Telekom Malaysia (TM) is a key stake-holder in APCN2.
Also tell him that the fault at APCN2 cable S8S (Philippine - Katong)
was detected last Sunday, on April 3. Not last night.
Dear Sir,
APCN2 cable S8S (Philippine - Katong) and S3 (HongKong - Shanghai)
failure #
The first fault point is near BU4 in segment 8. Cable ship Retriever
had commenced the investigation since 3-April. Due to the simultaneous
failure of S3. The investigation was ceased and it commenced cable
re-joining. Expected the segment be back to service at 1200UTC 9-April.
Another cable cut appeared at S3 on 2202UTC 6-April. The fault is
about 594km from Shanghai Chongming cable station. Due to the double
fault situation, the ring switch at S8 was defeated and it caused
traffic interruption. Carriers are doing the best effort to restore the
service via their own facility.
Upon the completion of S8 cable repair and the successful
implementation of S3 ring switch on 9-April, the traffic of APCN2 will
be back to service.
Cable ship KDD Ocean Link is dispatched for the S3 repair. The ship
is expected to commence repair on 16-April and the repair be completed
on 20-April, subject to the weather condition.
Posted by jeffooi at April 8, 2005 01:22 PM
[End Quote]
Who do we believe ? TMnet ? Singtel ? or the APCN2 statement.
Post by Rayson
take a look at http://www.singnet.com.sg
Post by TestMan
Thursday, April 07, 2005
TMNET TEMPORARY SERVICE INTERRUPTION
This is to announce that TM Net Sdn Bhd's Internet service is currently
experiencing a slight drop in performance caused by several outages due to
service degradation at some of its international links to Singapore, Hong
Kong, China, Korea, Japan, Thailand and United States. Our multiple link
providers which subscribe to the international carriers are still trying
to
Post by TestMan
restore their system for TM Net service.
KSGoh
2005-04-08 13:30:07 UTC
Permalink
i'm not sure others....
what i do when it down is..
i called my friends in Penang, PJ, Johor, Seremban..
and ALL ARE DOWN!!!!
so i will assume it's a nasionwide down!!!!!
lier....they say slow down..
Post by TestMan
Thursday, April 07, 2005
TMNET TEMPORARY SERVICE INTERRUPTION
This is to announce that TM Net Sdn Bhd's Internet service is currently
experiencing a slight drop in performance caused by several outages due to
service degradation at some of its international links to Singapore, Hong
Kong, China, Korea, Japan, Thailand and United States. Our multiple link
providers which subscribe to the international carriers are still trying
to restore their system for TM Net service.
TM Net is currently running slightly short on international capacity due
to the problem. The congestion will be alleviated as soon as the
international carriers fully restore their services for our connectivity.
Meanwhile, we have taken immediate action to divert some traffic through
our tmnet Eastgate service as well as to other back-up links to reduce the
Internet international traffic congestion. The international providers
are carrying out rectification works in stages and we will be making an
announcement when the service has resumed to normal.
TM Net Sdn Bhd apologizes for any inconvenience caused but at the same
time we would like to assure you that what we are doing is necessary in
order to restore the service as soon as possible.
Customers can call our TM Net Customer Interaction Center at 1-300-88-9515
or 1-300-88-1515 from 8:00 a.m. till midnight or email at
read the actual one here;
http://www.tm.net.my/html/news_details.cfm?id=346&type=News&pg=1
yazid
2005-04-08 14:17:00 UTC
Permalink
Post by KSGoh
i'm not sure others....
what i do when it down is..
i called my friends in Penang, PJ, Johor, Seremban..
and ALL ARE DOWN!!!!
so i will assume it's a nasionwide down!!!!!
lier....they say slow down..
Suddenly I found this somewhere http://tmnut.kambing.org/
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