For the past two days and including today, some places are having K-net issues! I am not sure why I haven’t read about this in the newspapers but no one seems to mention this or think this is an issue

On Saturday I had a Dr. appointment and when I used my K-net it stated “Bank Unavailable”, I was thinking did my bank go offline!! and then he suggested to use my Visa/Master card and I thought eventually Visa/Master card has to contact my banks’ servers to check my account but surprisingly it did work

Yesterday we went to the Avenues and all ATM machines were out of services and also some shops accepted K-net and others didn’t. So the problem wasn’t with the complex’s network but what was the issue ??

Brain storming by myself, if I were to visualize all the banks networks’ architecture I would believe that each bank host their own network between their branches and handle their own networking equipment and don’t lease it to an ISP. But of course they would need Internet access for interaction with the outside world but most importantly for on-line banking, this is where an ISP comes to picture. Here comes the back-end front-end scenario, where only the front-end can be accessed from outside and the back-end deals with all the banks’ critical servers storing all the information

But I think this solution will allow only withdrawal from your bank using your card, so here comes the K-net which is a network handled maybe by a third party or a representative from each bank to connect all the banks together

So I am thinking maybe something is wrong with the network connecting all the banks together, because it can’t be that all banks are having issues, this kind of environment needs to be stable and safe

In shops with the K-net issue, I was tempted to ask them to try the Visa/Mater but thought otherwise … “basich legafa”

Maybe the shops who are provided with the K-net through a certain bank are the ones facing a problem

So I am hoping someone who has a better idea about this than I do, reads my post, and enlighten us all