View Full Version : is mili away ?
kajak
12-29-2006, 02:35 AM
not shure where to post this ?is mili away for the holiday ?bought stuff frome his store 12/26 everything in stock sent western union money in minutes sent all info back to him still have not got email back or tracking #
Probably just a holiday delay. If the site is still here, which it is, then Mili will take care of his customers.
doeling
12-29-2006, 07:18 AM
Yeah, I'm waiting on 3 max-mels from before Christmas, I figure he's probably away for holidays, although I'm getting anxious.
Well thanks to the earthquake in Taiwan I can barely access the site here and cannot for the life of me access my emails. If you email me don't expect a reply until they restore the fiberoptic lines that were torn. I am here not going anywhere but I am blind as a bat.
mili
Been really bad from my place since the 26th, but seems to be all good now. (hope I didn't jinx us all with that comment ;-))
kajak
12-30-2006, 12:04 AM
THANKS MILI!!! keep us posted so we have an idea whats up . and let us know if you need any order # or western union (tcn) when you get back up. was not worried did business with you before you took care of me when i had to send something back!
bhc123us
12-30-2006, 12:11 AM
Everything is slow :-)
Mili, tried ordering from the site; no good.
I email you the order. Hope you can give it a #.
that is, when you can get your emails.
Order before; great service!!!
This has been a major telecommunications outage. AT&T alone had 8 hi-capacity backbone lines completely severed. This happened over the period of a few days, where the initial quake broke some, and the aftershocks broke even more.
AT&T has only just now completed the damage assessment and has the ships loaded with the necessary supply's and equipment to make the repairs. The ships are being dispatched now. They will have to raise the cables one at a time from the ocean's floor to the surface to make the repairs. This is not a small task. Expect poor service to continue for a week and maybe for weeks.
More to follow as I get updates.
bhc123us
12-30-2006, 01:30 AM
Thanks for the update Ohms.
I just hope everything will be ok soon.
My romcode needs to renewed;
2 weeks to go! :o
The majority of the issues should be resolved by simply rerouting the connections. That's probably why we are seeing such a quick return to near normal connection speed. However, it could be months before all the damage to the undersea cables is repaired. This means peak hours could be a problem because the alternative lines are now carring significantly more traffic.
vmod32
12-30-2006, 02:24 AM
Well thanks to the earthquake in Taiwan I can barely access the site here and cannot for the life of me access my emails. If you email me don't expect a reply until they restore the fiberoptic lines that were torn. I am here not going anywhere but I am blind as a bat.
mili
Thats odd from what I've read just about everything worldwide is back up and running, maybe slow but working. The main outage was a couple days ago.
The majority of the issues should be resolved by simply rerouting the connections. That's probably why we are seeing such a quick return to near normal connection speed. However, it could be months before all the damage to the undersea cables is repaired. This means peak hours could be a problem because the alternative lines are now carring significantly more traffic.
seaboard18
12-30-2006, 02:42 AM
The Fiber Optic Cable: The cable consists of one or more glass fibers, which act as waveguides for the optical signal. Fiber optic cable is similar to electrical cable in its construction, but provides special protection for the optical fiber within. For systems requiring transmission over distances of many kilometers, or where two or more fiber optic cables must be joined together, an optical splice is commonly used.
Read more... A great deal of information is here.
hxxp://www.commspecial.com/fiberguide-print.htm
no live link here surfboard
Thats odd from what I've read just about everything worldwide is back up and running, maybe slow but working. The main outage was a couple days ago.Thats what they are saying is, it is slow.
What is odd about people who do this shit for a living and/or make a living via internet posting what they know?
anyway been working ok for me today
seaboard18
12-30-2006, 03:30 AM
Generally the cables can be temporarily spliced in an emergency situation to restore limited communication until all of the bundles can be repaired. One of the problems with fiber optic splicing dealing with the internet is that it will sometimes cause one way access with no return or slow return signal. One must remember that these cables are under water which is a bit more complicated to repair, due to contamination. Fiber optic cables that are strung on poles and placed underground are not as hard to repair and the contamination factor is much less.
Mechanical Splicing vs. Fusion Splicing
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p231/seaboard18/ms.jpg
Mechanical splices are simply alignment devices, designed to hold the two fiber ends in a precisely aligned position thus enabling light to pass from one fiber into the other. (Typical loss: 0.3 dB)
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p231/seaboard18/fs.jpg
In fusion splicing a machine is used to precisely align the two fiber ends then the glass ends are "fused" or "welded" together using some type of heat or electric arc. This produces a continuous connection between the fibers enabling very low loss light transmission. (Typical loss: 0.1 dB)
The majority of the issues should be resolved by simply rerouting the connections. That's probably why we are seeing such a quick return to near normal connection speed. However, it could be months before all the damage to the undersea cables is repaired. This means peak hours could be a problem because the alternative lines are now carring significantly more traffic.
It's not that simple JT. The carriers have contracts to provide certain amounts of bandwidth to specific customers. To just pile OTHER customers traffic onto a link that someone else is paying for, is just not acceptable. The carrier would have to pay SLA recoveries to both customers.
Some bandwidth is variable, and some is fixed. The fixed cannot be overridden, but the variable can be squeezed because there is no guarantee of specific throughput.
The way it works is that the VBR (variable bit rate) links become overburdened by the traffic from the severed leased lines. Other leased lines will be unaffected.
I believe that the rerouting of the severed leased lines to the VBR links that are still up has been completed except for some fine tuning. AP (Asia Pac) bound traffic is being passed between Europe and NA (North America) over VBR links. that is the path that we in NA are using to get to Asia.
smilingjack
12-30-2006, 09:06 PM
lets not forget that some of the link are under water
It's not that simple JT. The carriers have contracts to provide certain amounts of bandwidth to specific customers. To just pile OTHER customers traffic onto a link that someone else is paying for, is just not acceptable. The carrier would have to pay SLA recoveries to both customers.
Some bandwidth is variable, and some is fixed. The fixed cannot be overridden, but the variable can be squeezed because there is no guarantee of specific throughput.
The way it works is that the VBR (variable bit rate) links become overburdened by the traffic from the severed leased lines. Other leased lines will be unaffected.
I believe that the rerouting of the severed leased lines to the VBR links that are still up has been completed except for some fine tuning. AP (Asia Pac) bound traffic is being passed between Europe and NA (North America) over VBR links. that is the path that we in NA are using to get to Asia.
I'm just glad near normal connection speed has already resumed. Pretty impressed actually. From that post you made a few days ago and what I've been reading in the news was that it was going to take a lot longer and the effects would last a lot longer. Even though it's fair to say not one of the broken lines has been repaired, connection speed is near normal.
It's always nice to get the scoop from someone who knows exactly how all this shit works. Thanks Ohms. :)
kajak
12-31-2006, 11:43 PM
still no info from mili western union has been sent .when will he get back to us and tell us what we need to do to get are stuff that has been payed for.
smilingjack
12-31-2006, 11:49 PM
It the holidays,
people go place and do thing with family of holidays.
he is having trouble with net connection too.
having troubles with e-mail and even trying to get on the net.
Be patiens, he will get back with you
Bandit5906
01-01-2007, 01:03 AM
Well thanks to the earthquake in Taiwan I can barely access the site here and cannot for the life of me access my emails. If you email me don't expect a reply until they restore the fiberoptic lines that were torn. I am here not going anywhere but I am blind as a bat.
mili
In Beijing and cannot get e-mail either. Also there was a huge power surge which fried my PC, but my laptop survived w/o any problem!
It is still fucking impossible for me to reach my emails. I can reach the site on HTTP but SMTP and POP traffic is still nonexistent. I am fucking furious not to be able to retrieve my email with all the orders, questions and the usual bitching. Sorry guys, I promise I won´t rob you but I can´t fill orders I never receive :-(
mili
kajak
01-01-2007, 04:03 PM
mili are we going to need to send you our order # and western union tcn or do you think your email orders will come threw once things come back up for you.thanks
Bandit5906
01-02-2007, 03:36 AM
I can only use Yahoo e-mail in Beijing: OE and MS Outlook do not work at all!
Update
At around 4am yesterday, the Trunks for San Francisco to Hong Kong and from Sydney to Hong Kong were restored. There should now be bandwidth to carry the rerouted traffic from AsiaPac to the US and back. However the Latency within AsiaPac will remain until cable repairs have been completed.
The cable repairs have not been started yet on the under sea cables. These types of repairs typically take around 20 days to complete once the ship is at the site to be repaired.
The areas impacted include China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Thailand, Singapore, Philippines, India, Malaysia, Korea and Australia.
More to follow as updates are received.
Bandit5906
01-02-2007, 11:45 PM
That may be the case, but there is still no e-mail for me in Beijing. I will be in Hong Kong tomorrow and hopefully it will work for me there. From there I will go back to Guangzhou where I am pretty sure it is working now.
Hi Bandit. There is no "but" about it. I said, Latency within AsiaPac will remain until cable repairs have been completed. Unless you are tapped in at the NAP, or connecting through a provider that is, you can expect issues to continue for a while.
Sounds like you are first hand verifying my info for me. :)
Hope it gets better for you soon.
I have no info on why web traffic is getting through, but other TCP based traffic is not. The only thing I can think of is someone is filtering to reduce traffic loads.
Greystone
01-03-2007, 01:28 AM
Order id: #33305
Received MXM . No ATML in package though it was ordered at same time.
Is this a seperate ship or was it forgot ?
Thanks.
Greystone,
In the interim until Mili returns and can address the issue, you could always use an atmel chip out of an old loader if you have one laying around.
Just a suggestion. You probably already know this, but I thought I would mention it just in case.
Good luck.
Greystone
01-03-2007, 04:09 AM
Actually the Chip is in, it's the programmer that is AWOL. Thanks OHMS. I know Mili will respond.
bigstinker
01-05-2007, 02:49 AM
Mili, my good friend the one that gave me the “dark gift” of satellite testing put in an order to renewal
Romcode and I was wondering if you are back or not. Must have been a key change and I’m sitting on “card not authorized”. Running 4.24
Can you process the order yet?
Fina fucking ly. I got email back and can access teh site properly. I got a major email and shit to do backlog, will work at it this weekend non stop.
mili
BillS
01-06-2007, 03:38 AM
HOORAY!
Waiting patiently for you to pick up my WU transfer and e-mail my romcode renual.
Thanks for all your hard work!
bigstinker
01-06-2007, 04:53 AM
Fina fucking ly. I got email back and can access teh site properly. I got a major email and shit to do backlog, will work at it this weekend non stop.
mili
Thanks Mili!!!!
kajak
01-06-2007, 11:01 PM
thanks mili cant wait
BillS
01-08-2007, 11:26 AM
Mili,
I know your busy and trying your best.
But maybe an quick update when things might by caught up.
Or maybe an ETA on when orders will be processed ala when AVR-X was backlogged.
I don't mean to create more work for you. I'm afraid you just spoiled me by always processing my requests and orders literally within hours. :rolleyes:
Thanks for your time.
We will pickup WU payments today, money order payments that we got are all in progress of shipping. Will go to pick up more MOs today. Your order in the store should be either in "Processed" satus if you paid with a WU transfer which we pick up in a few hours or Pending if paid with a MO I got already.
mili
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