Currently, the broken cable under the sea has appeared more, leading to the "crawling" network, making your Smart TV difficult to access applications, especially Youtube, Facebook, ... So how to overcome this situation? Please follow the steps below of WebTech360 offline.
What is APG fiber?
On January 3, major telecommunications businesses across the country together announced the introduction of the APG - Asia Pacific Gateway undersea cable line . The total length of this fiber optic cable is about 10,400 km, the APG undersea cable is capable of providing bandwidth up to 54 Tb / s. This cable route has the participation and cooperation from major carriers in the territory of Vietnam such as FPT, Viettel, VNPT and CMC.
APG - Asia Pacific Gateway fiber optic cable route is a completely new undersea optical cable route, promising to bring many benefits as well as optimal performance in terms of Internet service quality for users in Vietnam.
According to reports from network providers, on the morning of April 24, the APG undersea cable system had a problem on the S3 branch. According to initial information from APG NOC, the broken cable position is 53 km from CHM - China.
This problem is expected to be fixed in 2 to 3 weeks if everything goes well, ie on May 15, 2018, the network access speed will be fully restored.
Accessing Youtube, Facebook on TV will be difficult
The harm of the broken fiber cable is that the Internet access speed will be significantly slower, applications such as Youtube, Facebook, Gmail ... will be harder to access and use, sometimes will not be used, can cause us to miss out on important jobs.
Accessing demanding applications can be difficult
How to fix
We will have 3 ways to fix the following:
Option 1: Use domestic services for replacement during cable breakage because in this case the domestic Internet connection will not be affected.
Domestic services such as Zing Tv, FPT Play or cliptv.vn, ... can temporarily replace Youtube during the incident.
For TV, there are domestic services replacing Youtube such as Zing Tv, FPT Play or CliptTV, ... these applications are provided completely free of charge.
Option 2: Register 3G / 4G
We can subscribe to 3G / 4G data plans to use during the day
This may sound a bit expensive, but the fact is that when the undersea cable break occurs, the 3G / 4G package will be completely unaffected. We can register this package on the phone and then broadcast the wifi to the TV or connect the phone to the TV to access using the Youtube application.
Connect your phone to the TV to use or broadcast Wifi from your phone to power your TV
>> How to share Youtube videos from phone to TV
Method 3: Change DNS
DNS is a protocol of a computer network. Its basic task is to convert domain names into IP addresses that computers and electronic devices use to identify each other on the network.
DNS change is also one way to help improve the device's access speed somewhat
Devices connected to other networks on the Internet use IP addresses to forward a user's request to the Web site they want. In a nutshell it's like dialing a phone number to connect with the person you want to call and talk to.
>> Instructions to change DNS to access Facebook, Youtube
After changing DNS, we can access Facebook, Youtube with better speed
Hope that the simple tips that WebTech360 introduced above will "save you" when needed. Good luck!