Internet in Pakistan Suddenly Slows Down to a Halt

internet in Pakistan basically took a nap Tuesday night. People were losing their minds—websites wouldn’t load, everything kept timing out, and honestly, it was like trying to surf the web in 2002. Outage sites lit up with complaints from pretty much every provider you can think of.

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Oct 1, 2025 - 11:05

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Internet in Pakistan Suddenly Slows Down to a Halt

Nayatel finally piped up and said, yeah, there’s a glitch with one of their upstream providers. Classic. They swore their engineers were on the case (probably fueled by a lot of tea), and promised things would be back up around 1:15 a.m. Fingers crossed, right?

Pakistan’s internet is already limping along thanks to a bunch of undersea cable cuts earlier this month. Not exactly ideal timing for a slowdown, right? The cables got messed up somewhere in the Red Sea, so now all the traffic’s getting rerouted through these painfully long detours. You can guess what that means—lag city. Not just for Pakistan, but for neighbors too.

The cables in question? It’s the SMW4 and IMEWE lines—basically the digital lifelines connecting Asia to Europe. Tech folks and monitoring nerds are all over it, tracking the mess. The official word is, don’t hold your breath: repairs might take four to five weeks. So, yeah, get ready for those annoying buffering wheels and random disconnects, especially when everyone’s online at the same time—even if your local network’s running fine. Fun times.

If you’re dealing with this mess right now, honestly, just hit up Downdetector or something similar—they’ll let you know if the world’s falling apart in real time. Sure, you can mess around with swapping your DNS, hop on a VPN that’s somewhere near Europe, or just ditch Wi-Fi for mobile data. Might help a bit, might not. Tech folks keep saying, “Yeah, these tricks work… kinda.” But really? Nothing’s truly fixed until the main connection’s back up and running. So, cross your fingers and maybe go touch some grass while you wait.