Asian internet slowdown

Browsing the internet has been a nuisance for the past 3 weeks if you’re from the Asia Pacific region. Most Asian countries are still suffering from the aftermath of the quake that recently hit the region, which damaged undersea communications cables off the coast of Taiwan. The slowdown comes as a minor headache to the casual internet user, but for internet junkies and IT network administrators, this is one nightmare that one hopes to quickly wake up from.

In some networks, sites that have traditionally been the quickest to load, such as Google, took a massive dive in web page download speed and performance. In contrast, some bandwidth-intensive sites (streaming media, ftp download sites) can be accessed quite easily.

So why am I so pissed off? It’s simple. Our good ole’ Blogger is one such affected site. Bummer.