Bandwidth Being Throttled In Bahrain? 69
mahiskali writes "In light of recent uprising and protests in Bahrain, reports are coming in showing slower than usual internet access across the country. Broadband providers are claiming this is due to high-usage and heavy load, but Twitter is abuzz claiming a government-imposed lockdown. Accounts on the popular media-sharing site Bambuser have reportedly been blocked as well."
Well, it looks different at least. (Score:4, Informative)
According to this graph from Arbor Networks, http://www.monkey.org/~labovit/bahrain.png the peaks are lower and the valleys are higher. It's fairly clear that there's more interest in using the internet, but something is throttling the bandwidth.
Re:Internet for elite?? (Score:2, Informative)
Actually, the government first deployed police and military forces against the protesters.
Alternatives (Score:4, Informative)
Well if Bambuser is being blocked (and I suspect its a mix of more slashdotting and blocking), there is also Qik [qik.com] and Ustream [ustream.tv]