One of karoo fiber optics cables cut at olympic village

[adidaz]

Just got of the phone with karoo help desk about there poor speed today.
Apparently they had one of there cables cut at the Olympic village in london.
They should have it fixed in about 2-3 hours from now so they say at karoo
How true this is I don't know but we will see

[stormy]

Wondered why my PS3 update was taking eons to download... 60Kb/s :/

Status   Problem - All
Log Date/Time   01-04-2010@17:37:00
Estimated Time   4 h
Time Remaining   0d, 3h, 54m, 46s
Description   01-04-2010 17:37:28 - Nick Thompson, Director of Consumer and Publishing Services at Kingston Communications:

“Work on the Olympic Village in London has damaged one of our main fibre optic links. Whilst our resilience measures allow us to manage the situation, it does mean that our KC (Kingston Communications) customers may still notice an impact on their broadband performance. Our engineers are working to fix the problem as a matter of urgency. We would like to apologise for any inconvenience caused.

“Karoo customers can check the status of their service by calling the status line on 01482 602197 and by viewing the status page on karoo.co.uk.”

http://www.karoo.co.uk/help-and-support/karoo-network-status.aspx

[adidaz]

Wondered why my PS3 update was taking eons to download... 60Kb/s :/

That what got me to ring them in the first place.
Just to let you know at the start of conversion with the help desk the speed problem was all my fault the women on the phone put me on hold for 5mins comes back and told me about the problem. 

[Adrian]

According to the status line it has now been fixed.