• Undersea Internet cable down, affecting Internet access throughout Europe, the UK and Cloudflare sit
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[QUOTE=Killuah;44852821]main Pornsites still up, the internet is working fine[/QUOTE] The official Killuah checklist for if you should panic: [ ] Are porn sites still accessible
[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] Tracer Tong scenario.
Facepunch is down, are you? [img]http://i.imgur.com/7d1Yvwu.gif[/img]
[QUOTE=Mega1mpact;44857281]The official Killuah checklist for if you should panic: [ ] Are porn sites still accessible[/QUOTE] Change that to "official average Internet user checklist". [editline]20th May 2014[/editline] It's kind of humbling knowing that, for instance, if I play BF4 with someone in the UK, I may get 80 ping but every second an amazing amount of information is sent back and forth between me and the server, going through those undersea cables.
I've always been wondering about these cables, they're laid on the seafloor, right? If something broke the cable or caused damage, how would they go about fixing it? Is there a point when just placing a new cable might be cheaper? [editline]20th May 2014[/editline] oh, they dig them up and fix them on the surface that makes sense, I guess
[QUOTE=Zezibesh;44857774]I've always been wondering about these cables, they're laid on the seafloor, right? If something broke the cable or caused damage, how would they go about fixing it? Is there a point when just placing a new cable might be cheaper?[/QUOTE] The cable is separated into chunks. When the cable breaks, they send a ship out and reel in the cable with some sort of hook. Then they substitute the broken cable and re-lay the entire section Because of the importance of these cables, there are ships specifically designed for this purpose on standby 24/7 all over the world There's a bit of info here: [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine_communications_cable#Cable_repair[/url] And a more detailed video here: [video=youtube;m6qTk5WNq9E]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6qTk5WNq9E[/video]
Thanks, this is pretty fascinating.
I knew something had to be up when even my phone's 3G was failing on the same sites as my PC. I had no idea what could knock out multiple sites at the same time but not others, though.
According to Telia so was it a planned update that went wrong. [URL="http://www.telia.se/privat/driftinformation/2014/Maj/Problemen-med-internettrafiken-mot-USA-och-Asien--r-nu-avhj-lpta"]The small message on their Swedish website[/URL]
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