Hello

If any of you are experiencing unusually high pings, 340 - 450 instead of 180 - 240, this is because an undersea cable went down close to the UK. It's been down for the last 2 weeks. Expected date of repair is tomorrow 04 November. Full services should be restored by Monday 07 November. My ISP is MWEB and I am not sure if this problem is specific to them or if it is across the board.

Thanks

DeckStar

Thanks for letting us know. I was about to phone and rage at MWEB...

Cool. Lets HOPE

Here is an update for you from 2 articles I found:

http://broabandtrafficmanagement.blogspot.com/2011/10/south-africa-p2p-control-helps-overcome.html

http://www.franktechconnect.za.net/blogger/2011/10/09/mweb-seacom-update/

Think it's time to switch to WebAfrica

I heard there was a problem about that. Received this Email from MWEB some time back.....

I did contact MWEB via email too, and they told me to do speed tests etc. I already did that and included all that info in my first mail to them. Anyway, since i thought it may be a line problem, i phoned Telkom and asked them to check the line. Apparently my lines are working properly. I have only been getting lags while playing League of Legends. Also, i downloaded Heroes of Newerth, and played it yesterday. To my surprise i did not lag at all. I then searched these forums for other lag problems, and it appears that we are not the only people experiencing lag problems. The cables went down early October, i have been experiencing lag from 31 October. So i dont think its the undersea cables that is the issue.

Here is the forum with Lag complaints:
http://euw.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=460140&page=32

There are quite a bit of complaints, which mean it cant be a South African problem only.
Fingers Crossed

MWEB's IVR system, when you call in, says that the cables whould be fixed by 9 November 2011. Here's hoping because this LOL drought is making me edgy!