I guess something like this was bound to happen eventually, it was only a matter of time. Every Nigerian right now is suffering from terrible network conditions. And the funny thing is that it’s not just Nigeria, it’s also happening in Ghana, South Africa, and a bunch of other countries.
Apparently, some undersea cables got damaged and that’s what’s responsible for the disruption of the network. MTN seems to be the worst hit by these, but other network providers are not doing any better either. And so far, it’s just been a frustrating couple of days for us as we’ve been trying to access the internet and failing miserably.
For someone like me who relies solely online for my daily bread, you have no idea how upsetting it has been for me. To the point that it seems everything that has to do with work isn’t working but other things were. WhatsApp and Facebook are working just fine, but Discord refuses to load messages. Some websites on Chrome are working fine, but Peakd and Hive.blog just keep refusing to load. My mobile bank app won’t work but the music app is working just fine and disturbing me with pointless ads.
It’s as if the network just handpicked the things that are important to me and decided to cut them off while leaving me with others. At this point, I’ve refreshed my browser to the point of utmost freshness, I don’t think I’ll ever be caught unfresh again. In the same way, I’ve turned on my airplane mode feature so much that you might as well call me a pilot.
This just shows how important the internet is to us and how dependent we have come to be on it. This is the reason why we spend thousands every month on data plans that are nothing but highway robberies. That is why no matter how terrible things get, we’ll still buy data. More and more data, because we simply can’t do without the internet. That’s one major fact of life.
Not just for those of us working online, but also for people offline as well. The internet is also a good place to escape from a lot of the rubbish that happens in real life. It gives people the opportunity to be totally different from who they are in real life. That’s why a shy and kind person can come online to be a rude and aggressive keyboard warrior. The internet brings out the best and the worst in us.
Anyway, it’s all good. For something on such a big scale, I know that it’ll be fixed soon. After all, the company is losing profits for every second people are not browsing, and again the fact that it’s not a local problem but an international one, will speed up the process and make them fix it faster.
However, one has to wonder sha, what could possibly cause such damage to an undersea cabling? I don’t think a megalodon was swimming past and decided to have a feast, or maybe Mammy Water didn’t like the cost of the data plans her marine kingdom was paying, and decided to scatter everything.
I don’t know, and honestly, I don’t care. I just want it to be fixed so I can get back to my work and get my groove back. That’s all that matters to me right now. Hopefully, before this weekend is over, it’ll be a different story on the lips of everyone affected by this.
I don’t even know when I’ll be posting this. But then, if you’re reading this, it probably means I’ve seen a temporary solution to this menace. I don tire!!