[kictanet] Internet Outage Tuesday Oct-13-2009

[S.Murigi Muraya]

My Telkom Orange ADSL has been down for over 10 hours now. Still down.

As mentioned by others, maybe something good is about to happen.

SMM via Zain

On 10/16/09, Mwangi Wamae <mwangi.wamae at gmail.com> wrote:
> Fiona and others:
>
> I hope you're all having a nice Friday (Furahi-day?).  I appreciate the time
> you put into responding to my query, however, I was not "crying wolf" --
> what I noted as Waudo put it was "that a number of disparate users, having
> disparate services providers, reported Internet outage at roughly the same
> time".
>
> I have received confirmation from two operators -- Wananchi and Safaricom --
> that they were down for at least part of Tuesday October 13, 2009 due to
> internal technical issues.  Al Kags mentions that Zain was down too.  The
> Telkom problem that I experienced was due to a malfunction of their
> equipment that is on our premises so we can disregard that.
>
> It turns out that it was likely a weird coincidence that all these operators
> had problems at the same time.   As Brian Longwe said, all I wanted was
> COMMUNICATION from my service providers, absent that I take these disparate
> data points and I assume that there is a general problem.  (Although there
> is a very real question about how they can communicate with me if I have no
> connectivity, but let's abstract away from that now.)
>
> That said I have learned a lot about how Internet traffic is managed in
> Kenya from this tread.
>
> Again thank you very much everyone.
>
> -Mw
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 8:51 AM, Al Kags <alkags at alkags.com> wrote:
>
>> Fiona, all,
>>
>> I am connected by several service providers - Telkom EVDO for movement,
>> Safaricom at work and Zain blackberry. I could not connect and non of
>> their
>> customer service depts could say more than "technicians are looking into
>> it." They all did say that they had received several calls on the issue.
>>
>> I still don't have an explanation of what happened. Even connecting at
>> Java
>> was a problem.
>>
>> There's an alarm bell that rings in my head everytime I hear someone quote
>> their mandate in the face of a problem and with the communication below it
>> rang again.
>>
>> KIXP is responsible for local traffic as I understand you below. Who gets
>> the pin for international traffic? It occurs that I have never needed to
>> ask
>> this until now.
>>
>> Al Kags
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: "Fiona Asonga" <tespok at tespok.co.ke>
>> Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:13:24
>> To: <alkags at alkags.com>
>> Cc: 'KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions'<kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
>> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Internet Outage Tuesday Oct-13-2009
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