Comments on: Asia’s Internet access wrecked by Taiwan quake

By: Another Feather In Her Cap

Another Feather In Her Cap — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 06:19:07 +0000

[...] A break in a critical link often proves disruptive, as was demonstrated in southeast Asia in 2006 and now in the Middle East and Europe: “Internet outages disrupted business and personal [...]

By: SEO to Target Singapore and Nearby Countries

SEO to Target Singapore and Nearby Countries — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 04:20:59 +0000

[...] With the recent Taiwan quake and Internet access chaos, I am convinced that my strategy is right. Most of my Singapore SEO’ed websites hosted in Singapore still get loads of traffic from Singapore and Australia. My traffic is not affected by the damaged cables. [...]

By: Kian Ann

Kian Ann — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 05:47:34 +0000

Well said, John. I think there are some thing we can control and some which we cannot. If the Internet access is paralysed, there is not much we can do about it anyway (unless you can go deep diving around Taiwan to repair the cables :mrgreen:). So its time to whip out all the “digital junk” and start reading them.

For the long term strategy, it is also important to host your site near your customers. So, if your site is targeted for the people in the US, it would be great to host your site in the US (even though access and uploading would be slower from here). That way, even cross country breakages in the Internet will not trouble your online businesses.

By: John

John — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 05:39:53 +0000

Me too yesterday had difficulty to access most of my website too. Hope it will recover fast or else I will be a bit bored. Haha.

As for my online business part, I guess when this internet access problem do occurs, we need to have some backup plan or else we will be paralized by when this hit again.

Below are some things I usually do when my internet access got some problems:

1)I usually write article to do some article marketing
2)Do some design work of my website which need to improve which I do not need to online
3)Do some continue learning. I think I had some ebooks that I had bought but had not really read it yet. SO this is the best times.
4)Get some rest I have been working hard so deserved some good rest

John Tan

By: Kian Ann

Kian Ann — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 01:59:07 +0000

So good… this morning I was still unable to access (or had to reload a couple of times) some websites. So its time go back and chase up on my article writing! Been lagging for a few days now!

By: Shi Hengcheong

Shi Hengcheong — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 01:47:13 +0000

My Starhub broadband is back to normal this morning. In fact, it is faster than before the Taiwan quake. How come, huh? I am not complaining as long as they keep it at this speed. Could it be the upgrade from 4Mbps to 6Mbps? But I am talking about accessing US websites - it is really faster than before. Since 6Mbps is a comfortable speed now, I cannot think of a good reason to upgrade to 100Mbps, which is the fastest broadband in Singapore - launched on the day when Internet access going out of Singapore jammed and crashed. This fastest access plan costs S$121.80 per month plus a one-time payment of S$525 for a DOCSIS 3.0 cable modem. Very expensive hor? Another interesting thing is that Starhub changes the access plan name - no more numbers to show the maximum speed. It is now Starhub Ultimate, Starhub Premium and Starhub Express. A classical case of branding flop! Originally, some smart alec thought 1500kbps was a bit deal and brand it Starhub 1500, not know that Korea and Hongkong were already working on 100,000kbps for home users! I think Starhub Ultimate 100Mbps is more to save the face of IDA than really promoting very fast broadband access. Find out more on the Fat Green Pipe here.