Hello,

Gamespy multiplayer games not working in Europe/Netherlands.

Electronic Arts Battlefield 2 Demo Login Service not working in Europe
possibly Asia too.

Most likely cause:

"
Second Internet slowdown likely

Hong Kong (dpa) - Hong Kong internet users were being warned of a slowdown
in connections Tuesday, as work and schools resumed after the holiday,
putting extra pressure on the network damaged by the Taiwan earthquake last
week.

The warning came as the Telecommunications Authority admitted the damage to
the undersea cables was more serious than originally thought.

Speaking at a press conference Tuesday, the acting director-general of
telecommunications, Y K Ha said it would be some time before full internet
services can resume.

"When the ships arrived at the scene for inspection, they found the damages
were more much more serious than we thought," he said.

"So we now estimate the time taken to repair and resume normal operations
will take much longer."

Asia was plunged into internet chaos Boxing Day when an undersea earthquake
measuring 6.7 on the Richter scale struck Taiwan's southern coast.

The quake and its aftershocks damaged four of Taiwan's Chunghwa Telecom's
six undersea cables, cutting off or slowing down the voice, data and
internet connections of many Asian countries with India, Europe and the US.

Most networks have resumed service after re-routing connections, although
many are still suffering delays during peak times.

Originally, it was estimated the repairs would take up to two weeks.
However, it is now believed it will be the end of the month before full
service is resumed.
"

Man that sucks.

I need my crack everyday... I can't live without my crack.

Surely there has to be better way to find out if if something happened to
the internet cables ?

Gjez man.

It took 48 hours before I learned about this.

SUCKS.

Bye,
Skybuck.

The date was missing.

I checked other websites, this seems old news from 27 dec 2006.

However recently some earthquakes have happened.

So who knows.. maybe somewhere else cables damaged...

Also please people take note:

Always add date to your news messages thx

Bye,
Skybuck.

More recent story:

"
Last Update: Wednesday, March 28, 2007. 10:36am (AEST)

Earthquake jolts central Japan coast

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.8 has jolted the west coast
of central Japan, Japan's Meteorological Agency said.
It struck at 8:08am local time in the Noto peninsula, 300 kilometres west of
Tokyo, three days after a powerful earthquake in the same area killed one
person, injured over 200 and destroyed hundreds of homes.
No tsunami warning has been issued and there were no immediate reports of
fresh injuries or damage.

There have been hundreds of aftershocks since Sunday's quake, which had a
magnitude of 6.9.
The focus of Wednesday's tremor was 10 kilometres below ground level on the
peninsula.
It was moderately strong on the Japanese intensity scale, which measures
ground motion, measuring lower 5 on a scale of 7.
Earthquakes are common in Japan, one of the world's most seismically active
areas.
The country accounts for about 20 per cent of the world's earthquakes of
magnitude 6 or greater.
"

Many other earthquakes as well these days, gje.

Bye,
Skybuck.

Ah that's better:

http://eqinfo.ucsd.edu/special_events/

"
Latest Special Events

2007

[Earthquake] 2007-04-01 : Magnitude 8.0 near Gizo, Solomon Islands
[Earthquake] 2007-03-26 : Magnitude 6.7 Kanazawa, Honshu, Japan
[Earthquake] 2007-03-26 : Magnitude 7.2 Vanuatu
[Earthquake] 2007-03-12 : Magnitude 6.0 in the Gulf of California, Mexico
[Earthquake] 2007-03-08 : Magnitude 6.2 Primorye, Russia
[Earthquake] 2007-03-08 : Magnitude 4.6 central California
[Earthquake] 2007-03-06 : Magnitude 6.4 Padang, Indonesia
[Earthquake] 2007-02-26 : Magnitude 5.4 offshore Northern California
[Earthquake] 2007-02-25 : Magnitude 5.9 near Los Mochis, Gulf of California
[Earthquake] 2007-02-23 : Magnitude 6.4 near the coast of northern Peru
[Earthquake] 2007-02-12 : Magnitude 6.0 Azores-Cape St. Vincent Ridge,
Portugal
[Earthquake] 2007-02-09 : Magnitude 4.2 Ocotillo Wells, Southern California
[Earthquake] 2007-01-21 : Magnitude 7.3 in the Molucca Sea, Indonesia
[Earthquake] 2007-01-12 : Magnitude 8.2 East of the Kuril Islands
[Earthquake] 2007-01-09 : Magnitude 5.7 British Columbia, Canada
"

Pick one gjez

Bye,
Skybuck.