News: Afrihost sets up proxy server to address SEACOM delay

In response to the as yet unresolved repeater problem on the SEACOM submarine fibre cable, which feeds South Africa with a large proportion of its international bandwidth, local Internet Service Provider Afrihost has setup a proxy server that will offer international access through its hosting infrastructure until the system is back online.

Reports began to surface earlier this week that SEACOM had been struck with a repeater problem and that although it may only take a few hours to physically resolve the issue, it would be six to eight days before the ship deployed to make the repair is able to detect where the snag originated.

As a result numerous South African internet users have been left with limited internet connectivity while their respective ISPs scramble to reroute traffic through SAT-3 or via satellites.

Afrihost has posted details for the proxy settings on its website here but noted that “this connectivity is through a smaller bandwidth pipe and as such international access speeds will be much slower than usual.”

The SEACOM issue has raised questions regarding the redundancy measures which have been put in place by local providers. Several ISPs, specifically MWeb, have been particularly hard hit as a result of the problem.

Afrihost sets up proxy server to address SEACOM delay

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