Qtel Internet sloooooow...something wrong??!

not only today... it started last week

thing happens every end of the year for 4 years now, and its very consistent... i wonder why?

The under sea cable cut at Alexanderia - Egypt so the internet and telecommunication is badly effected in Middle East, Asia and Europe

yup its undersea cables cut check out todays gulf times its all splashed on the front page

QL used to host with Mediatemple, which is based on virtualized servers, but when the traffic took off they switched to RimuHosting.

There are now two data centres in Doha. One run by Qtel, the other by Meeza, which is part of QF. I just don't know the reason why any non-governmental website would host in either of them.

I know that before QL switched to RimuHosting, they were paying $100 a month for hosting. Now, I'm sure they're paying more, but not huge amounts more. Both Qtel and Meeza are never going to be able to compete on price.

Nor are they going to be able to compete on support. QL is number-three in the top-10 websites in Qatar, and it runs on free software. Kutch does a great job of running the local free-software group, but there just aren't the numbers of Linux experts in Qatar to be able to provide good support services.

The other reason you might not want to host in Qatar is the local legal framework. Hosting in the USA is sometimes frustrating if you receive a barrage of DMCA takedown notices, but at least the law is well-documented. Here, you can't be sure that someone with a bit of wasta wouldn't make a phone call to Qtel and shut you down.

Of course, there might be a technical reason to host here. If you needed low latency. Maybe the data centres are full of companies' file servers? However, even if I was running an system that require a low ping, surely it's a safer bet to host in Dubai?

Any examples of locally hosted websites???

Does anyone know a company that hosts its website in Qatar?

I've found two:

http://www.qatar.net.qa/ - Qtel

http://www.moi.gov.qa/ - Ministry of Interior

Most of the top-10 local sites (nine, probably) are hosted in USA.

Any others in Qatar?

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Qatari site is worth $157796.8.How much is yours worth?

Actually it seems Gulf Times in hosted in the US as well.

I doubt many websites are actually hosted in Qatar, or the Middle East. Most will be in the US.

eh? I didn' t know QL is overseas site... :O

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You'd be less likely to notice even if they did, as most of the sites you access from North America are in North America.

I expect you'll find local sites are loading at usual speed (try www.gulf-times.com, for example). It's the overseas ones that are slow (like QL).

I’ve never heard about any "the under water cable being severed" till I came to qatar. in middle east for some reason it happens few times a year..why in the North American part of the world "the under water cable" never severs?

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They estimate it will take til end of the year to fully fix the problem. I expect that the service will slowly improve as time goes by.

it took me 2 hours before i can see all your comments and another 30 minutes before i can post mine...what a day.....hope they fix it immediately

MAN F*** qtel pages are hardly opening wat a service

Im the one and only

Do some people not read the news!?!!?

Did you Google it first?

Agreed, it does seem that Qtel have been more efficient in their response this time, compared to when it last happened.

Hmm..again. "..breakdown of a submarine cable network in the ... Sea..." in this event, Qtel has been rather efficient then. so, all the complaints I heard about Qtel is (more or less) in the past. Great!

Today's connection is fine but as Tallg said, when the govt offices and all other businesses get back online, the traffic might cause a jam. We'll see..

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I had really slow speeds and packet loss this morning, then it improved for a bit. Now it's pretty bad again.

I think we can look forward to one or two weeks of bad surfing.

Since the initial problems when the cables first broke Qtel or whoever will have re-routed things to other cables. That's why things are a bit better now. But things may get worse again tomorrow when the weekend is over and businesses are back to work.

Yeeaahh... Inteerrrnnetttt iiiissss vvveeryy sllooowww.. Nooowwwww I'mmm jjuusssttt pplllayyiiinnggg Fffiiiffaaa..

cheers,

paul

agree browsing has been much better, yesterday when i did manage to get qtel on line, all the customer helpdesk could tell me was they were facing some general issues, nd that it should be fixed in 2-3 hrs lol and the cables gonna take atleast 15 days..

yeah, web browsing is a lot better today than yesterday's.

Things seem better for me today than they were yesterday. Web browsing is only slightly slower than usual.

I think Qtel's PR department are incredible. Literally. Incredible.

Internet services in Qatar were not severely affected despite a breakdown of a submarine cable network in the Mediterranean Sea yesterday.

"There is no major impact for Qatar's communication services as we have many cable operators," said Adel Al Mutawa, Qtel.

Source: The Peninsula

Meanwhile, in the real world, I have trouble loading any web page before the server times out.

There obviously isn't sufficient redundancy in the cable network, and Qtel have known this since the last time the cables were cut.

yep, here it is, apparently Qatar is facing 73% reduction, and fix date is either 25Dec or 31Dec! :( :( :(

http://fibresystems.org/cws/article/yournews/37128

That sucks!

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speed is kind of acceptable, but the download speed is tremendously slow :( 3.0 KB or less for a 2MB Internet line???

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. (Gautama Buddha)

saw a news about the under water cable being severed in tunisia - sicily, italy area,,, according to cnn, europe, north africa, ME-asia will be affected...

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Its been really slow,pages doesnt seem to open

well there is a under sea breakdown again near egypt :'( Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo