My anecdote doesn't quite explain the symptoms you had, but as an Optus customer I would find terrible download speeds correlated with Sea-Me-We3 being damaged.

My anecdote doesn't quite explain the symptoms you had, but as an Optus customer I would find terrible download speeds correlated with Sea-Me-We3 being damaged. Local sites or content cached in Australia performed fine (for obvious reasons). Recently it seems it gets damaged every four months or so. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEA-ME-WE_3#Service_disruptions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEA-ME-WE_3#Service_disruption...