Hey all my friends! :) I know most of my friends in Asia and North Africa must be wondering what suddenly happened to their ISP that they are providing slow Internet?
I read an article about Internet in today's newspaper. The article discussed recent things related to Internet and some of it's History and facts. There I read this line: "Not only security threats imply slow Internet". I thought to give it a look and on reading I came to know why my Internet was slow in past few days.
Actually, there is submarine(under the water, here under the sea) cable that provides Internetwork to many countries. Two such submarine cable networks are the India-Middle East-Western Europe (I-ME-WE) cable and the South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe-4 (SEA-ME-WE-4) cable. These were damaged in the month of march. The first was the India-Middle East-Western Europe (I-ME-WE) cable. The cable damaged on 27 March was the South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe-4 (SEA-ME-WE-4) cable. The SEA-ME-WE-3 cable was damaged in January near Singapore and remains unrepaired because of Singapore government red tape, according to The Guardian.
An excerpt from an Indian Newspaper few days back:
"Internet speeds in India, especially for customers of Bharti Airtel, Tata Communications and state-owned BSNL and MTNL are set to be disrupted for the next 20-25 days, after a key undersea cable, carrying data traffic across 14 countries, from Singapore to France, was cut off the coast of Egypt. Two other key cable networks, linking Asia to Europe, were also allegedly damaged.
The extent of the damage is still being assessed. "Currently, internet and data usage are low because of the festive season. India will feel the impact from Monday when offices and businesses come back. Telcos have diverted all traffic from the Atlantic route to the Pacific, but our connectivity to the latter route is not sufficient to cater to all of India's traffic," explained Rajesh Chharia, president at Association of Internet Service Providers of India."
So don't think you are the only one having the slow Internet, the repairs were to take approximately 25 days, and as far as I have read, the repairs are complete and thus Internet must be back in shape, atleast it is working fine at my end now.
I must be late in sharing this one, but well if you were thinking of changing the ISP, I think I have shared this at the right time! :D and hey Happy New year 2070 according to the Hindu Calendar. Have fun! :)
Hey all! Posting after a long time in the Musical Monday? Let's listen to some nice songs then! :D
"Payphone" by Maroon 5
Lyrics
I'm at a payphone trying to call home
All of my change, I spent on you
Where have the times gone?
Baby, it's all wrong
Where are the plans we made for two?
Yeah, I, I know it's hard to remember
The people we used to be...
It's even harder to picture
That you're not here next to me
You say it's too late to make it
But is it too late to try?
And in our time that you wasted
All of our bridges burned down
I've wasted my nights
You turned out the lights
Now I'm paralyzed
Still stuck in that time when we called it love
But even the sun sets in paradise...
I'm at a payphone trying to call home
All of my change, I spent on you
Where have the times gone?
Baby, it's all wrong
Where are the plans we made for two?
If happy ever after did exist
I would still be holding you like this
All those fairy tales are full of shit (video), it (album and radio)
One more fucking(video), stupi(album and radio) love song, I'll be sick
You turned your back on tomorrow
'Cause you forgot yesterday
I gave you my love to borrow
But you just gave it away
You can't expect me to be fine
I don't expect you to care
I know I said it before
But all of our bridges burned down
I've wasted my nights
You turned out the lights
Now I'm paralyzed
Still stuck in that time when we called it love
But even the sun sets in paradise...
I'm at a payphone trying to call home
All of my change, I spent on you
Where have the times gone
Baby, it's all wrong
Where are the plans we made for two?
If happy ever after did exist
I would still be holding you like this
All those fairy tales are full of shit (video), it (album and radio)
One more fucking (video), stupid (album and radio) love song I'll be sick
Now I'm at a payphone...
Man, fuck that shit
I'll be out spending all this money
While you're sitting 'round wondering
Why it wasn't you who came up from nothing
Made it from the bottom
Now when you see me I'm stuntin'
And all cars start with the push of a button
Telling me the chances I blew up or whatever you call it
Switch the number to my phone so you never could call it
Don't need my name on my show, you can tell it I'm ballin'
Swish, what a shame, could have got picked
Had a really good game but you missed your last shot
So you talk about who you see at the top
Or what you could have saw
But sad to say it's over for
Phantom pulled up, valet open doors
Wiz like go away, got what you was looking for
Now it's me who they want
So you can go and take that little piece of shit with you
I'm at a payphone trying to call home
All of my change, I spent on you
Where have the times gone
Baby, it's all wrong, where are the plans we made for two
If happy ever after did exist
I would still be holding you like this
And all these fairy tales are full of shit
Yeah, one more fucking love song, I'll be sick
Now I'm at a payphone...
"Glad You Came" by The Wanted
Lyrics
The sun goes down
The stars come out
And all that counts
Is here and now
My universe will never be the same
I'm glad you came
You cast a spell on me, spell on me
You hit me like the sky fell on me, fell on me
And I decided you look well on me, well on me
So let's go somewhere no-one else can see, you and me
Turn the lights out now
Now I'll take you by the hand
Hand you another drink
Drink it if you can
Can you spend a little time,
Time is slipping away,
Away from us so stay,
Stay with me I can make,
Make you glad you came
The sun goes down
The stars come out
And all that counts
Is here and now
My universe will never be the same
I'm glad you came
I'm glad you came
You cast a spell on me, spell on me
You hit me like the sky fell on me, fell on me
And I decided you look well on me, well on me
So let's go somewhere no-one else can see, you and me
Turn the lights out now
Now I'll take you by the hand
Hand you another drink
Drink it if you can
Can you spend a little time,
Time is slipping away,
Away from us so stay,
Stay with me I can make,
Make you glad you came
The sun goes down
The stars come out
And all that counts
Is here and now
My universe will never be the same
I'm glad you came
I'm glad you came
I'm glad you came
So glad you came
I'm glad you came
I'm glad you came
The sun goes down
The stars come out
And all that counts
Is here and now
My universe will never be the same
I'm glad you came
I'm glad you came
I hope you all liked the songs. These are #10 and #9 songs on the MTV 2012 best songs list. Have fun and see you all soon! ^_^
