West Africa Cable System (WACS): 1.15× baseline latency

What we measured

Path analysis

Traffic kept the same route. Latency rose without a visible path change, which points at congestion or a fault on the existing route rather than a reroute.

Cross-probe verdict. Only one probe saw it. We treat this as a probable false positive and label it as such.

Timeline

• 2026-07-09 21:01 UTC Alert 2026070901: warning — ratio 2.85x
• 2026-07-10 02:31 UTC Alert #147 improving: 1/3 consecutive OK
• 2026-07-10 03:02 UTC Alert #147 improving: 2/3 consecutive OK
• 2026-07-10 04:31 UTC Alert #147 improving: 2/3 consecutive OK
• 2026-07-10 05:02 UTC Alert #147 resolved: RTT 188.24ms (baseline 164.09ms), 3 consecutive OK

Detection method

Latency is sampled continuously from our probe network. An alert opens when round-trip time to a monitored endpoint holds above its rolling baseline, and closes automatically once it returns. Full method is described on the methodology page.

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