Comments on: Notice: Internet Downtime

By: intlxpatr

intlxpatr — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 10:17:57 +0000

Let’s all leave town.

By: Bashar

Bashar — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:02:54 +0000

Abdulkareem: That’s so much useful details. Thanks

By: Abdulkareem

Abdulkareem — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:46:23 +0000

The problem is that qualitynet relies on 2 peering companies for its international connectivity:

Teleglobe (VSNL): Which is routed from Kuwait -> Saudi Arabia-> Rest of world
Emix: Kuwait -> Dubai -> Rest of world

Because of Dubai’s problems, Emix connectivity has been dropped completely, meaning Qualitynet is relying on Teleglobe alone for its connectivity, this is why qualitynet is laggy these days for gaming or any other latency intensive application. Qualitynet is dropping alot of packet to compensate.

They’re either going to switch completely to Teleglobe (I hope because it’s superior to emix) by purchasing more bandwidth from teleglobe, this means they will drop emix completely (i hope so because emix sucks). Or they’re going to temporarily purchase bandwidth from teleglobe to ease the problem, then rely on emix when dubai fixes their shit.

By: Bashar

Bashar — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:15:31 +0000

bojacob: Sorry, I haven’t read ur comment about movement, not upgrade. But still, it’s not end user’s concern. If its going to be down, or practically unusable, i.e dialup speed for DSL account, then customers should be compensated.

ISPs, go sue DUBAI!

By: Bashar

Bashar — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:12:34 +0000

This is totally ridiculous if we lose the connection. The whole world is evolving all the time, I never heard of US or European country losing connection for over a week just to upgrade. Backups should be there, and if not, we should all ask for compensation from the ISP.

You don’t charge us for your upgrade downtime!

By: 3baid

3baid — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 09:19:14 +0000

Dunno :/

By: Sunshine

Sunshine — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 09:11:30 +0000

Will my blackberry service still be working?! :|

By: Bojacob

Bojacob — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 07:47:51 +0000

They’re just moving cables :/ It’s not an upgrade or anything special. The cables are laid underneath UAE’s palm island thing, and those palm guys want to expand, therefore putting the cable in danger.

They’re also going to replace one of the FOG repeaters which has been acting up.

I’ll beg for more connectivity up north right about now :(

By: MBH

MBH — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:48:18 +0000

Companies will be dealt as high priority by ISPs. Individuals, on the other hand, will suffer.

From the last Internet outage due to the cable cuts in the region, QualityNet did continue to offer individuals Internet access, but at reduced speeds, but enough to browse email and read news (no video streaming crap or p2p). Other ISPs failed at this.

e-Go users are likely to have the service running, since as far as I know, Zain goes through QualityNet.

I already have a VPN connection to work. I’ll just VPN and use work’s link :p

I hope it doesn’t take more than 1 week. I can’t live long without my weekly dosage of anime.

By: Um BB

Um BB — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:08:12 +0000

I can live without HIGH speed connection :@

By: 3baid

3baid — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:06:51 +0000

Angelo, whoops! :O I put in August because I was on UmBB’s blog (8thofaugust.blogspot.com) :P

By: Sushi

Sushi — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:57:08 +0000

LOL @ last sentence. I loved it.

By: Aurous

Aurous — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:44:16 +0000

I read that someone from Zajil said that the Internet providers here are prepared to deal with the issue and they’ll continue offering there services. I hope they can keep up there word :)

By: Angelo

Angelo — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:22:06 +0000

According to the posted article, the downtime will last until the 8th of July, not the 7th of August. It seemed you switched day and the month around :P

By: KTDP

KTDP — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:00:41 +0000

it looks like we’ll have to put up with internet downtime every damn summer !

By: Marzouq

Marzouq — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:53:47 +0000

That is a huge down time and lost money, I doubt that its going to happen this way.. they can make the provisioning without taking the network down for too long!

By: Ms Loala

Ms Loala — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:49:37 +0000

Omg this can’t be true!
Last time it went off we had a major crisis and now this!!
I highly doubt they’re making any improvements :|