Ever since the earthquake in Japan which did damage a couple of undersea cables which links Malaysia, the Facebook-ing experience was affected as well. Users have been reporting slowdowns in accessing the site and a quick ping on facebook.com showed that indeed there was something not right with the link to the facebook servers. Probably this is due to the connection being routed to Hong Kong first.

Not to worry, there is a quick temporary solution to this.

 

For MacOSX users, simply launch Terminal and type this in to your host file.

$ sudo nano /private/etc/hosts

then, key in your password.

Add 203.106.85.66 www.facebook.com and 203.106.85.66 facebook.com.

Save and exit.

and that’s it! Fire up your facebook page =)

Ping to facebook.com is now reaaaaaaly awesome.

For Windows users,

The host file is located here

C:WindowsSystem32driversetc

Open the host file with notepad and do the same.

Happy stalking on Facebook!

-hehehunter- found this fix =)