Update on Internet Issues
We have more information thanks to q8techdrive’s comments to my post.
Town Exchanges are down from 01.12 Hrs on 29th Jan due to a fire that started around 10.30pm yesterday. Several ISPs have shutdown their equipment and also MOC have shutdown electricity to the building. The building is still under fire department and no one have any specific time to restore the service. KEMS restored their services at 05.15 AM. MOC has restored the power to the building.(Update from KEMS)
Update: Fasttelco came back online at 6PM.
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Jan 29, 2006
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10 Comments, add your own...
1. q8techdrive | January 29th, 2006 at 10:28 am
886666(FT) & 804444(QNET) no more accepting calls! May be they are fed up telling customers about the incidents or they are being swamped by people who havent heard of this news about fire.
Fastelco website is down, but Qnet site is up & running. FT might had hosted it in their office.
My Wataniya EDGE works fine & also my office Internet as it got paths through US, UK, Singapore & India.
2. nibaq | January 29th, 2006 at 11:16 am
Had to be before 1:12. Fastteclo and dialup Qnet were down like around 11-12.
3. q8techdrive | January 29th, 2006 at 11:19 am
Nibaq, Yes you are right…I just learned from my friends that it went down between 11 – 12.The information I posted in my comments was from KEMS.
4. Pearls | January 29th, 2006 at 11:46 am
The fire started at 10:30pm, as Rami stated on my blog.
5. Susan | January 29th, 2006 at 2:10 pm
Hey Mark/Nat,
Nothing to do with your post; I need some help and I know how observant you two are! There is a company here in Kuwait that takes people on helicopter rides. Do you know who it is?
6. Nat | January 29th, 2006 at 2:27 pm
Hey susan, we’ve picked up a brochure about this company before, the name totally slipped my mind now though. Mark probably knows more about it so he might be able to help you out later when he gets home. Someone just told me that it’s locatio is somewhat close to marina hotel on the sea side.
7. q8techdrive | January 29th, 2006 at 3:17 pm
Mark, Nat – I’m not overtaking…
I guess the company does the chopper service is United Aviation. http://www.united-aviation.net/main.html
7056666 is the number of the guy you need to contact for this.
25 KD for Adults and 20 KD for kids – 15 minutes of site seeing.
8. Nat | January 29th, 2006 at 3:29 pm
Well there you go Suzan, all the info you need.
Thanx q8techdrive, you’ve been quite resourceful today:)
10. Susan | January 31st, 2006 at 8:37 am
You guys (and your friends) are a mine of information! Thank you Nat and q8techdrive!
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