If you are having slowness accessing facebook recently, this temporary solution might help you solve the speed problem.
Why is Facebook so slow lately in Malaysia?
This is because Japan Earthquake that took down the Pacific Cable and one of the hop servers at Hong Kong Internet Exchange Data Center and triggered the technical problem, the submarine telecommunications cable system has been affected by the disaster.
Somehow, a temporary solution suggested from a Malay Forum (HeHeHunter.net) that re-route your Facebook connection. They discovered a proxy server [203.106.85.66] (Akamai) hosted locally in Malaysia. This solution FORCE your computer to use the IP address to access Facebook.com. It’s work for many malaysia people and this solution is viral spread on Facebook.
We decided to test this temporary solution and come out an experiment for better understanding.
How does it work actually?
Why is Facebook so slow lately in Malaysia?
This is because Japan Earthquake that took down the Pacific Cable and one of the hop servers at Hong Kong Internet Exchange Data Center and triggered the technical problem, the submarine telecommunications cable system has been affected by the disaster.
Somehow, a temporary solution suggested from a Malay Forum (HeHeHunter.net) that re-route your Facebook connection. They discovered a proxy server [203.106.85.66] (Akamai) hosted locally in Malaysia. This solution FORCE your computer to use the IP address to access Facebook.com. It’s work for many malaysia people and this solution is viral spread on Facebook.
We decided to test this temporary solution and come out an experiment for better understanding.
How does it work actually?
Solution (Experiment)
This temporary solution really can fix the speed slowness problem with Facebook. Here are the steps :- Open your notepad.exe (Start -> All Programs -> Accessories -> Notepad)
- Copy “C:\windows\System32\drivers\etc” and paste on your Window Explorer Address bar, then enter, it will open the “etc” folder location.
OR
Manually go to find out the “etc” folder location from this directory ”C:\windows\System32\drivers\etc”.
- Next, use your mouse click the file named “hosts” in etc folder and drag into your notepad program.
- Add in the following 2 sentence at the below 203.106.85.66 www.facebook.com
203.106.85.66 facebook.com
- Then save.
- Open your browser, key in www.facebook.com.
- Enjoy back the normal or even superfast speed!~
