The SEA-ME-WE 3 undersea cable was cut over a week ago and SingTel, the company that administers it, still isn't giving an explanation or a time frame one when service can return. It means that people in Perth are suffering slow connections to anywhere outside Australia, with one of my friends reporting that a game he plays has gone from a ping of 80-90, to around 350-400. We're also getting drop-outs, with browsers often failing to locate servers. Trying to route our traffic through the eastern states is problematic because, we don't have a spare 480 Gbits/s of connectivity with them.


Yes, we've lost 480 Gbits/s of connectivity with the rest of the world, leaving our direct link via the JASURAUS cable and it's anemic 1.1 Gbits/s. The Eastern States have been hit by this, but not as severely, as this reduces their connectivity down to around 3,000 Gbits/s. This disparity actually favors Western Australia, as we certainly have less that 12% of the national population.

What this mean for this Tigress (who's connection is shoddy due to hir motherboard's quirks) is that the internets is brokeneded.