Thumbs-up to Google
It's a breather! Google must have successfully diverted Internet traffic to their networks of caches and mirror sites worldwide for its end-users affected by the APCN2 cable damage caused by the Richter 7.1 earthquake off Taiwan yesterday.
My Gmail, Google Search and Google News came back full-blast around 4.00pm yesterday. Even the high-traffic Flickr.com is loading reasonably well. Throughout yesterday morning, I had to revert to the HTML version of Gmail, which was a pain, and internal search of archive mails was not working.
Screenshots reader Johnleemk has found a way to mitigate the Internet snarl by using Oceania-based proxy servers. He posted a comment in this blog yesterday:
"...configure your browser to use a proxy server to access the internet. If you use Internet Explorer, go to Tools and then Internet Options, then click on "Connections". Click on "LAN Settings" and tick "Use a proxy server for your LAN". Fill in the boxes with the details for your proxy server.
To find a proxy server, you can use Google. There are many lists of proxies out there, such as this one. I recommend using an Australian proxy, since Australia is probably the closest country to Malaysia not affected by the Taiwan earthquake.
Details are available in his blog.
Geeks at LowYat.net also offer some very good solutions to mitigate the Internet snarl. Just that bandwidth is scarce commodity at the moment, hopefully none will abuse the proxy servers to play Internet games.
Comments
Net connections is still intermitent as even getting into typekey lags.
Edward
28-12-06 ~ 11.35 am at Maluri area
Posted by: MYnow![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.jeffooi.com/nav-commenters.gif)
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December 28, 2006 11:24 AM
He missed out on the instruction for another major browser, Opera. I will try to give it here:
1. On the menu, go to Tools -> Preferences (or just click Ctrl-F12)
2. Select the "Advanced" subtab
3. Choose "network" from the bar on the left.
4. Click on "proxy servers"
5. Choose HTTP and HTTPS, and type in the URL and PORT for the proxy server.
Hope that helped.
Posted by: changyang1230![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.jeffooi.com/nav-commenters.gif)
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December 28, 2006 12:36 PM
"..hopefully none will abuse the proxy servers to play Internet games..."
Gaming online is LATENCY dependant, not bandwidth dependant. A single Torrent running with 1000 peers will do more to saturate a line more than the same 1000 playing games ever will.
That said, latency will be so bad routing through a proxy you may as well take the day off and fly a wau.
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December 28, 2006 10:10 PM