Undersea Internet cable down, affecting Internet access throughout Europe, the UK and Cloudflare sit
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[quote]At this time we're experience a network outage in our AMS1 and AMS2 datacenters. With secondary impact affecting customers in Europe. As a result, you may experience latency, connectivity issues, or slow pings.
Preliminary investigation indicates that Telias Transatlantic cable are down. We are working to resolve the issue and apologize for any interruption this causes for you.[/quote]
[url=https://status.digitalocean.com/]Source[/url]
[url=https://twitter.com/Cloudflare]Many Cloudflare sites, even ones based in the US are experiencing downtime due to this.[/url]
[url=http://www.akamai.com/html/technology/dataviz1.html]UK and Netherlands Internet traffic down by over 15%[/url]
The outage is affecting access to many European websites from the US... I can't access the BBC or any other major UK news sites.
Was the reverse up until a moment ago for me in Sweden.
That explains why facepunch was down for me the past hour. :v:
I experienced that for like an hour just now
I've noticed more disconnects playing Mario Kart Wii than usual, could be anything though.
Edit 10:34: Looks like my Twitter feed is frozen in time, left wondering if my last tweet got through.
[t]http://i.imgur.com/T5JpzwX.jpg[/t]
Edit #2, Just as I posted that, it became unstuck.
ye been messing up some sites for me the past hour
[QUOTE=pdkm931;44852488]Was the reverse up until a moment ago for me in Sweden.[/QUOTE]
I thought it was mainly me, had a storm roll past with suspiciously good timing
Was wondering why I suddenly had terrible ping ingame
I've had no problems with anything, yet my friend who lives two minutes away from me couldn't access anything. That was fun
makes me wonder how easy is it to take down the undersea internet cables, and if they are easy to repair
reddit is down for me
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was
[editline]19th May 2014[/editline]
main Pornsites still up, the internet is working fine
Hey NSA, if you're going to install taps into the undersea cables, at least read the fucking manual first on how to do it without causing a service outage.
Of course it goes down now that the Wolfenstein pre-load is available.
I was wondering why Imgur was acting weird. Some images would load okay, others would just refuse to.
[QUOTE=Ninja Gnome;44852786]makes me wonder how easy is it to take down the undersea internet cables, and if they are easy to repair[/QUOTE]
woah, that would be a sweet terrorist attack
Remote charges on every undersea internet cable, all of them destroyed at the same time.
[QUOTE=Raptors!;44853063]woah, that would be a sweet terrorist attack
Remote charges on every undersea internet cable, all of them destroyed at the same time.[/QUOTE]
wow, that would really fuck up so much, now that the idea's in the air, though, its only a matter of time
gee thanks
[QUOTE=Ninja Gnome;44853086]wow, that would really fuck up so much, now that the idea's in the air, though, its only a matter of time
gee thanks[/QUOTE]Accidental blackouts have happened before though, it's been in the air pretty much ever since the internet has been around
only FP didn't work for me a few moments ago.
Things seem alright on my end atm, hopefully they'll be able to fix the cables before this week's Co-Optional Podcast.
We have shitloads of these cables.
Traffic will be rerouted. The Internet is a self-healing spider's web, that routes around outages and censorship.
Everything is already back to normal for me, even though the cable is probably still down.
Why is it that every time there is a service outage like this, I'm at a semi-remote location enjoying something called the outside nature?
Huh, i thought my DNS was playing up. I couldn't connect to some websites either.
[editline]20th May 2014[/editline]
I did a bit of looking around and found what cable they are talking about,
[t]http://i.cubeupload.com/TNs1v1.png[/t]
Comes from the US, loops through Europe and back again.
[QUOTE=Raptors!;44853063]woah, that would be a sweet terrorist attack
Remote charges on every undersea internet cable, all of them destroyed at the same time.[/QUOTE]
I always thought this would be a really cool terrorist attack on global communications, but you'd need an amazing amount of resources to pull it off
It's kind of cool when you think about it, having those cables on the ocean's floor where all Internet traffic goes though. I wonder what those cables looks like.
[QUOTE=StrawberryClock;44854182]It's kind of cool when you think about it, having those cables on the ocean's floor where all Internet traffic goes though. I wonder what those cables looks like.[/QUOTE]
[t]http://mountpeaks.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/undersea-cable.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE=StrawberryClock;44854182]It's kind of cool when you think about it, having those cables on the ocean's floor where all Internet traffic goes though. I wonder what those cables looks like.[/QUOTE]
[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Submarine_cable_cross-section_3D_plain.svg[/url]
[QUOTE=StrawberryClock;44854182]It's kind of cool when you think about it, having those cables on the ocean's floor where all Internet traffic goes though. I wonder what those cables looks like.[/QUOTE]
It's a really cool thought. The fact we're connected by thousands of miles of fibre optic cables communicating at nearly the speed of light is something we all take for granted. It's not until something like this happens that you remember just how magnificent that really is
[QUOTE=nikomo;44852858]Hey NSA, if you're going to install taps into the undersea cables, at least read the fucking manual first on how to do it without causing a service outage.[/QUOTE]
it's sad that this is something they actually do
[QUOTE=outlawpickle;44854378][IMG]http://us.123rf.com/400wm/400/400/photoman/photoman0907/photoman090700121/5173184-crab-claw-and-network-cable-with-white-background.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
Your internet got crabs, use protection.
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