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Wednesday, December 27, 2006
The Internets is down
Update, 2.52pm Wed, 27 Dec 2006: The connections are coming back, slowly but surely. The mrbrown show podcasts are now downloadable again. MSN is still down, but .Mac is fine.
For those of you who can see this, access to the mrbrown.com site is currently spotty, especially for Singapore surfers, because 5 submarine cables that our internet access relies on has been damaged after the earthquakes near Taiwan.
Internet access is slowly coming back as the ISPs reroute traffic around the damage (which is why I can update the site from Typepad but I cannot see the site).
It is also affecting our other sites, like mrbrownshow.com. You can surf to the site but the podcasts are unavailable for now because they are hosted overseas.
We apologise for the downtime, and hopefully, you can return to your surfing soon. In the meantime, enjoy this sneak preview of Fantastic Four: Rise of the the Silver Surfer, from Apple Trailers. I just watched the HD version of the trailer on my 20-inch Intel iMac and it rocks.
Wednesday, December 27, 2006 at 02:35 PM in Random Rants | Permalink
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Lol, damn nice guy, apologising for something that isn't your fault. Anyways, how does anyone know that it's Five Submarine cables? Am anxious for round-the-clock updates on internet access =) (so that I can download the latest podcast) Sources, anyone?
Posted by: Jenson | Dec 27, 2006 4:41:58 PM
Cheesedale Cheese, I cant even see the video. I can only browse selected sites, like yours.
Posted by: Qiansheng | Dec 27, 2006 5:22:27 PM
Good lord, MB. The movie's half a year away! Speaking of which, is Spidey 3 here yet ?
Posted by: Johnny Malkavian | Dec 27, 2006 9:45:03 PM
hey, i can't access singapore website from Australia. Thought Singapore is having some Nuclear attack like the show Jerico and all Singapore sites are down. Thanks for the ever reliable mrbrown.com.
Posted by: kk | Dec 27, 2006 10:08:06 PM
Hello, just to side-track a bit, now that you mentioned you also use .Mac services.
Do you have problem accessing/mounting your iDisk, and more importantly, can you publish your iWeb to your .Mac server? (If you use iWeb)
Because at least I found out 4 other people including me here in Spore with StarHub MOL cannot do these two things, and it has nothing to do with the Taiwan quake, 'cause the problems started since 22nd Dec
Cheers
Posted by: H W | Dec 28, 2006 1:52:51 AM
kindly explain this to a non-techie me. i thought that internet traffic traverses through a network of physical cables such that if one segment of the network is disrupted the signal packets will be re-routed via another way such that overall transmission remains robust?
in any event, unrelated to the query above, if an earthquake has this effect, what does that say about our telecoms vulnerability?
please enlighten.
Posted by: duh | Dec 28, 2006 3:25:31 AM
I always visit this site everyday, even there are difficulties accessing. :)
Posted by: eclipse | Dec 28, 2006 3:43:01 AM
its thursday 10:30am, Singapore time now. i still cannot sign into MSN. neither can i access any of the microsoft website. the improvement is: i can access mrbrown.com and all the blogspot blogs, which i wasnt able to do yesterday... let's hope the earthquarke situation in Taiwan is ok, considering the infrastructure is so badly affected. :(
Posted by: yl | Dec 28, 2006 10:30:58 AM
I shudder at the thought of terrorist crippling our government and military by blowing up our "submarine cables"... I didn't know our Internet connection is that vulnerable...
Posted by: Uncle Su | Dec 28, 2006 5:48:43 PM
I was trying to access your site since noon today, I get "site not found" error. Only managed to get to it today at 4 am( when i got home )
btw. I'm in perth, australia.
Posted by: Herman | Dec 30, 2006 3:22:24 AM
Marvel comics Rule! Marvel-made-movies suck.
Posted by: VFKK | Dec 30, 2006 5:33:21 PM
