Australia To US Net Link Affected BY Storm

[GhostShip]

Bad news for Oz folks here 

http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22869272-15306,00.html

Wild storms pounding the north western states of America have wiped out one of Australia's major internet traffic routes to the US.

The hurricane-strength storms and flooding have wiped out the Southern Cross Cable's Oregon links and halved its bandwidth between Australian and the US
Southern Cross Cable operations vice president, Dean Veverka, has confirmed that hurricane-strength storms and flooding have wiped out the carrier's Oregon cable route and halved its bandwidth between Australian and the US. Southern Cross's customers in Australia include iiNet, Internode and AAPT.
The cable had been severed between its Nedonna Beach and Hillsboro facilities, Mr Veverka said. The company has a secondary cable that reaches the US coast via Hawaii and California.

The outage has already begun hitting Australian internet providers. Greg Bader , the chief technology officer with Perth-based internet provider iiNet said it had already begun prioritising time-sensitive traffic to manage the outage.
"We're certainly operating on less capacity than would be considered ideal at the moment. We're not really seeing it in the call centres at the moment but it’s probably affecting some gamers but core operations are still humming along," Mr Bader said.

It's understood that AAPT has begun contacting customers warning them to expect network interruptions.

Lets hope the damaged cable can be repaired soon eh folks 

[Happy Dude]

Well I can safely say my net has been affected.
I can't visit some of the sites I would normally visit, and the sites I can (eg WinMXWorld) are running very slowly. This would be happening for most, if not ALL Aussies as the backup connections have to cover EVERY ISP here.

[Valor]

Thankyou Ghostship, i wondered what was wrong with my line  :shock: