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Latest Updates from ISPs
Webafrica
According to Webafrica this morning, the cable vessel designated to repair the damage to the undersea cable will be leaving Cape Town harbour at 18:00 today, 22 January, if the weather allows is.
Webafrica is one of South Africa’s Internet Service Providers (ISPs) who purchased extra international internet capacity which is routed through the Seacom cable which runs along the east coast of Africa and connects to South Africa at Mtuzini, Kwa-Zulu Natal. The extra capacity went live on Sunday night (19th of January).
This additional purchase means clients at Webafrica will have access to most sites, if not all and speeds may not be 100% of what is expected under normal circumstances. They are also waiting on further delivery of capacity via the Angola cable which will likely be today, 22 January.
Afrihost
Afrihost also has updates on their status page regarding the slow international access. In an update yesterday, 21st of January, they said their network engineers worked through the night keeping an eye on the network performance to keep it running as smoothly as possible.
Axxess
In an update on Monday, 20th of January, Axxess also informed their clients about the purchase of additional bandwidth on alternative undersea cables to improve international internet speeds and try to keep latency at a minimum.
Reason for Slow Internet
Read my article on why South Africa is experiencing this problem.
Closing
We salute ISPs like Webafrica, Afrihost and Axxess who initiates a plan of this scale in order to keep their clients connected. A big THANK YOU to you.
