The submarine cable outage has again slowed down the speed of internet in Pakistan, as per ISP sources. So if your internet is slow, don’t worry, you are not alone.According IMEWE submarine cable that connects Pakistan with rest of the world is underperforming and its bandwidth is not available for Pakistani ISPs. The cable is likely to remain down in 7 to 15 days from today.

Submarine outage has slowed down the speed of internet in Pakistan

The major users of IMEWE will experience sluggish browsing, slow download speeds and high dormancies.

Pakistan’s current international links and bandwidth potential include:

• TW1 with design capacity of 1.28Tbps
• Sea-Me-We-3 with 480 Gbps with two fibre pairs
• Sea-Me-We-4 with design capacity of 1.28Tbps
• I-ME-WE with Design Capacity of 3.86Tbps