Happy New Year 2007!
January 8th, 2007 by Jason
Internet access around Asia has come to a crawl for the past week. No thanks to the recent major earthquake in Taiwan which caused serious damage to undersea cables.
Here’s an excerpt from the notice posted by my ISP:
We wish to inform our customers that the Internet service is currently experiencing a degradation in performance caused by several outages at some of the international links. This is attributed to the Richter 7.1 magnitude earthquake that struck off the southern coast of Taiwan at 12.07 a.m. on 27th December 2006, which caused the APCN2 (Asia Pacific Cable Network 2) submarine cable fault between Shantou, China and Tanshui, Taiwan and between Lantau, Hong Kong and Chongming, China.
Accessing my own sites has been a painful affair and I couldn’t get much updates done.
My ISP has hinted in the dailies that Internet access to international sites will be restored to full capacity by end of January.
In the meantime, folks around Asia would just have to tolerate the Internet traffic jam. Well, on the positive side, it gives me a reason to stay away from my computer for a while and explore the nice things in the offline world. 
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