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Re:YouTube and Netflix ‘Throttled’ by Carriers by taspeotis on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @03:21AM (#17915729)
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_disruption...

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Re:YouTube and Netflix ‘Throttled’ by Carriers by rosege on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @03:25AM (#17915746)
If you're on Optus cable it could also be that they have let the network fall into disrepair due to the NBN eventually replacing it
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Re:YouTube and Netflix ‘Throttled’ by Carriers by taspeotis on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @03:26AM (#17915753)
Optus was (and probably is still) slow, but extra slow at the times SMW3 was broken.
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