[kictanet] Internet Outage Tuesday Oct-13-2009

[Walubengo J]

in the very old Telkom Kenya days, we used to accept it when they tell you that its because of the heavy rains that are currently pounding Nairobi...i wonder what they can say now..

but on a serious note - there seems to be an evolving and worrisome pattern here.  jst hpe the much-talked about "foreign-hackers" are not testing their skills on us.

walu.

--- On Fri, 10/16/09, S.Murigi Muraya <murigi.muraya at gmail.com> wrote:

From: S.Murigi Muraya <murigi.muraya at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [kictanet] Internet Outage Tuesday Oct-13-2009
To: jwalu at yahoo.com
Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
Date: Friday, October 16, 2009, 1:58 PM

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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