{"id":91780,"date":"2025-11-21T19:34:33","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T14:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=91780"},"modified":"2025-11-21T19:34:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T14:34:33","slug":"internet-slow-in-pakistan-key-reason-behind-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/technology\/internet-slow-in-pakistan-key-reason-behind-outage\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet slow in Pakistan: key reason behind outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Internet users from across Pakistan experienced video buffering, slow loading of <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/technology\/internet-faces-global-outrage-several-websites-down\/\">websites<\/a>, and freezing video calls.<\/p>\n<p>By midday, it became clear that the country was being swept by a major internet outage.<\/p>\n<p>Nayatel, one of the major Internet providers, faced a failure of one of its main upstream connections.<\/p>\n<p>The digital world is thus dented as users across major cities, including Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Lahore, and Karachi, reel under slow browsing.<\/p>\n<p>A critical vulnerability is unveiled as Pakistan relies heavily on only international internet connections.<\/p>\n<p>All traffic was forced onto the remaining route since just one upstream link had gone out, and as expected, heavy congestion and extremely high latency have resulted.<\/p>\n<p>Telecom analysts emphasize that this is not an isolated problem, as limited upstream redundancy makes the country incredibly prone to failures.<\/p>\n<p>Even a single glitch in a submarine cable, an electric outage at a landing station, or misconfigurations overseas can trigger a national slowdown. Similar incidents have also shown how vulnerable the digital backbone of Pakistan is.<\/p>\n<p>Nayatel confirmed the scale of the disruption, saying technical teams are working around the clock to reroute traffic and stabilise connectivity.<\/p>\n<p>No definitive timeline has been given for a full restoration. While repairs are in progress, millions of internet users have to make do with slow connections and an unstable experience on the internet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Internet users from across Pakistan experienced video buffering, slow loading of websites, and freezing video calls. By midday, it became clear that the country was being swept by a major internet outage. Nayatel, one of the major Internet providers, faced a failure of one of its main upstream connections. The digital world is thus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":83587,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[32478],"class_list":["post-91780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-internet-slow-in-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91781,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91780\/revisions\/91781"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}