Hi Nelson, Am quite sure that you would not want to be paying the price your telco would charge you if they had not decommissioned their VSATs.
I hope they did jail the captain that anchored in a demarcated zone on the coast of Mombassa. Our misery is his sole responsibility. rgds, reinier On Thursday 15 March 2012 02:27:00 mwebaze keikara nelson wrote: > Hello, > > We had more relaible Internet connections off VSATs before fiber. Well, > Fiber is good and also considering VSAT's high mantainance costs, most > companies had to run fiber as their primary links but my worry is; how can > a whole tier 2 ISP switch off redundancy links on VSAT. Am told even others > decommissioned them. How do they expect to achieve service Availability? > I believe this has been a lesson to most Engineers and companies to always > plan for fail-overs and tolorence. > > > Regards. > Nelson. > > > > None of us is as smart as all of us > > > > ________________________________ > From: Bernard Wanyama <[email protected]> > To: Uganda Linux User Group <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2012 11:00 AM > Subject: Re: [LUG] Uganda Internet > > This is something I found regarding TEAMS repair status: > > > · The cable ship NIWA arrived at Salalah spares depot on 11-03-2012. > · Preparations are now ongoing to load spare cable and > jointing kits onto the ship > · Cable mobilization for the Mombasa mission is expected on > 12-03-2012 · So far we are still on schedule (cable ship expected > to > arrive at Mombasa on 18-03-2012, for 4 day repair works ending > 23-03-2012, all going well) > > · We will continue to update regularly, at least every 48 hours. > · Once again we thank you for your patience and understanding > as we try our level best to repair the cable and restore full services > asap. > > > With TEAMS and EASSY down, I think there is little QoS and a lot of > oversubscription on SEACOM. > > Kind regards, > Bernard > > On 15 March 2012 10:38, Simon Vass <[email protected]> wrote: > > Anyone got a comprehensive picture of what is up with our Internet. As > > far as I can tell. > > > > EASSY - Down - Since three weeks ago > > TEAMS - Down - Since yesterday > > SEACOM - Barely holding it together - Last couple of weeks. > > > > As of this morning I know both Orange and MTN are using Seacom? May be > > the others are not down but just traffic being routed via Seacom. > > > > ? > > > > > > > > Simon Vass > > Managing Director > > E-Tech Uganda Ltd > > > > http://www.etech.ug > > Tel: +256 (0) 312260620 or (0) 312260621 > > email: [email protected] > > skype: e-techservicedesk > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > The Uganda Linux User Group: http://linux.or.ug > > > > Send messages to this mailing list by addressing e-mails to: > > [email protected] Mailing list archives: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Mailing list settings: > > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > > To unsubscribe: http://kym.net/mailman/options/lug > > > > The Uganda LUG mailing list is generously hosted by INFOCOM: > > http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > > attachments if any). The mailing list host is not responsible for them > > in any way. -- rgds, Reinier Battenberg Director Mountbatten Ltd. www.mountbatten.net tel: +256 758 801749 twitter: @batje _______________________________________________ The Uganda Linux User Group: http://linux.or.ug Send messages to this mailing list by addressing e-mails to: [email protected] Mailing list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Mailing list settings: http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug To unsubscribe: http://kym.net/mailman/options/lug The Uganda LUG mailing list is generously hosted by INFOCOM: http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The mailing list host is not responsible for them in any way.
