Taiwan Earthquake killed the Internet

According to Yahoo News, Tuesday night's earthquake measuring 7.1 on the Richter Scale that occurred off the coast of Taiwan severely damaged the vast network of underwater cables that enables modern communication. According to Hardwarezone, it would take three weeks for the underwater cables to be repaired to resume normal services.

Wednesday December 27, 7:08 PM

Quake cuts off much of Asia Internet
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/061227/1/45o3v.html


Wednesday December 27, 8:17 PM

Internet access in Singapore severely affected by Taiwan quake
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/061227/5/singapore249388.html


Some of the effects that are experienced here for home users:

1. Unable to connect to Instant Messaging Services that includes MSN and ICQ.

2. Slow downloading of files from the internet.

3. Slow access to certain websites especially overseas based sites.

4. P2P services down including most torrent trackers.