UAE Community Blog: Etisalat Slow

16 January, 2007

Etisalat Slow

Did anyone else experience painfully slow / inaccessible Internet today? It seems to have been fixed at 4pm, but before that it was agonising.

18 comments:

nzm said...: Yes - it was horrible.

I could receive and send emails but not access the www.; 16 January, 2007 16:19
Seabee said...: Same here. I did some e-mailing, gave up on the www and turned the bloody thing off in frustration. I don't like to tempt fate but it seems to be back to what passes for normal speed now.; 16 January, 2007 16:22
B.D. said...: I have had problems too--still am. With Gmail and other sites refusing to load all day. But the problem is not consistent with better or different performance when going online from different locations, i.e. at home, at work, etc.; 16 January, 2007 16:26
Anonymous said...: It was DNS issues, was able to work all right over a SSH connection.; 16 January, 2007 17:24
Anonymous said...: "Etisalat Slow"
Was it ever fast?; 16 January, 2007 17:24
flamin said...: I was told that the Malaysia quake (two days ago) caused an Internet Link Disturbance, which is why UAE's Internet was down.; 16 January, 2007 18:00
Anonymous said...: It should work just fine if you set it proxies to proxy1.emirates.net.ae port 8080. The transparent proxy seems to be having some major troubles, I've been on proxy1 for the past few years and haven't noticed any problems this week.; 16 January, 2007 18:34
CG said...: yes it was bad. GPRS was faster than usual though. go figure.; 16 January, 2007 18:38
archer14 said...: The quake rocked pings 2 weeks back.

I think they're closing in on torrents...Since yesterday I've been locked out of almost every tracker...what the HELL am I supposed to do with this connection now?. Time to head over to those FAQs...; 16 January, 2007 18:40
secretdubai said...: It has got better now. If you use a Mac you need to take the proxy out to get certain sites to work.

Also I would recommend that everyone reboots their routers (those with broadband). My torrents seemed to have died and I couldn't access my VPN, but since rebooting my router everything is fine again.; 16 January, 2007 22:48
Anonymous said...: This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.; 17 January, 2007 09:32
nzm said...: Apparently, it's a Web filter glitch.

In efforts to filter inappropriate content, all appropriate content was also blocked.; 17 January, 2007 09:35
secretdubai said...: Basically: they would prefer that no one could access the internet, and businesses lose money, than people are able to access "inappopriate" content for three days.

All they had to do was take out the proxies on Sunday and allow traffic to access the internet unproxied until they fixed the problem. We would have had lightning fast internet, no disruptions, just like Tecom.

But they didn't. They would prefer us to see nothing than everything.; 17 January, 2007 18:57
nzm said...: Well - at least they didn't blame the earthquakes off Japan and Russia this time for cutting any cables!; 17 January, 2007 20:19
Unknown said...: Inappropriate contents and blocked sites...Simply copy the inappropriate link you would like to visit, go to Google search engine, click on language tools, paste the link in the translate url ( http:www ), select a language you will not find on the webpage so there nothing being translated, hit the "translate now" button,and there you go,you get the inappropriate website through the Google proxy server...; 04 February, 2008 14:34
Anonymous said...: http://gulfnews.com/business/technology/web-filter-glitch-slows-down-internet-service-1.440460

I'm still the same problem ... they didn't fix it

I think it might be the time to switch to du ...; 31 December, 2009 15:41
Anonymous said...: Sure Etisalat is a Giantl in terms of pocket full of money! Wonder why they cannot fix this bug & let people of UAE enjoy the internet!! Hummmm!?>?!>!>!?!>; 16 July, 2010 17:38
Anonymous said...: Etisalat help the poor & need UAE netizens.. We will die soon with so much of stress & no intenet net connectivity. H E L P; 16 July, 2010 17:43