{"id":317646,"date":"2025-10-20T03:59:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T03:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/317646\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T03:59:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T03:59:11","slug":"undersea-cable-glitch-causes-minor-internet-slowdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/317646\/","title":{"rendered":"Undersea cable glitch causes minor Internet slowdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A power issue that occurred on Saturday on the Asia-Pacific Gateway (APG) undersea cable has caused some connection delays on certain foreign Web sites, but has not affected Internet use in general, the Ministry of Digital Affairs said yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry said that the disruption occurred on Saturday on the S3 section of the APG cable, about 66km off Shanghai in eastern China. <\/p>\n<p>                        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/cable.jpg\" width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo courtesy of Taiwan Power Co<\/p>\n<p>The fault was linked to an abnormal power supply and did not involve the cable&#8217;s Taiwan landing point, the ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>However, some users of Chunghwa Telecom&#8217;s HiNet service may experience slight delays when connecting to Web sites in China, Hong Kong, Japan and Singapore during peak hours, the ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>Major online services such as Google, YouTube, Facebook, Netflix, Telegram and AWS, which rely on local caches or direct connections in Taiwan, remain unaffected, it added.<\/p>\n<p>The affected cable has already been rerouted to improve communication and Internet access, it said, adding that Chunghwa Telecom was working with the APG cable consortium to fix the problem.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, Chunghwa Telecom said in a separate statement that emergency rerouting had been completed, and general connections to Hong Kong, Japan and Singapore had stabilized outside of peak hours.<\/p>\n<p>Repair work is still being carried out, Chunghwa Telecom said, adding that it could not yet give a completion date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A power issue that occurred on Saturday on the Asia-Pacific Gateway (APG) undersea cable has caused some connection&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":317647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[712,159519,158,22593,159518,67,132,68,22592],"class_list":{"0":"post-317646","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-internet","9":"tag-moda","10":"tag-technology","11":"tag-the-taipei-times","12":"tag-undersea-cable","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us","16":"tag-22592"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115404496131836516","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}