Undersea Cables Cut; 14 Countries Lose Web

[T_M]

Reports from the Mediterranean indicate that two of the undersea cables severed and repaired earlier this year have been cut again, disrupting internet access and phone service between the Middle East, Europe, and parts of Asia. An additional third cable is down in the same region.

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/200...rranean-c.html

As i'm currently in Qatar im definately feeling the effect of this.
Seems to me more than a coincidence that 3 major cables can be cut, but i dont know much about this stuff.
Anyway, im staying tuned to find out the details of the cause

The effect for me is that most websites take fricken ages to load (if at all), email is rwally slow, but bittorent seems ok. Trying to stream video is pointless as takes about 1hr to get 5 secs worth.

[Eson]

Maybe it was a crab?

[funk32]

maybe this is why some downloads were so slow

[eva2000]

Maybe it was a crab?

haha Godzilla size crab effected by years of dumping radioactive waste in the ocean

[XS_Rich]

Don't be flippant, this is serious.

It was Mothra in a scuba suit

[gundamit]

haha Godzilla size crab effected by years of dumping radioactive waste in the ocean

Don't be flippant, this is serious.

It was Mothra in a scuba suit

[kryptobs2000]

How did they get cut last year, did they find out?

[Glow9]

Maybe it was a crab?

"I pinch"

If anyone gets the reference

[T_M]

Prior cut in Feb was due to a 5 tonne ship anchor

[Monkey101]

Prior cut in Feb was due to a 5 tonne ship anchor

Now what the heck is an anchor doing out at sea on its own?!? Where was the ship?

[Macadamia]

Maybe it was a crab?

It was a spycrab.

[Duh]

I always had an amusement fot under see internet cables .. why dont they drope more to add redundancy??

legal torrents, right ? :P

[junkmonk]

that's what happens when your entire country can't afford a wireless router.

[Loque]

uh undersea cables ? why does my ping from europe to usa sucks then :|

[Mk]

I know I know Kuwait is one of the 14 country's.
it really sucks it happened on my weekend two i have some core i7 and GTX 280 pics that i want to upload but i cant do it do to 3 kb/s I'm living with now i cant even play WoW -_- or do anything with the internet other then read web pages

[iddqd]

uh undersea cables ? why does my ping from europe to usa sucks then :|

more routers?

[Shintai]

uh undersea cables ? why does my ping from europe to usa sucks then :|

Define sucks. And show a traceroute.

[Mk]

we need direct satellite up links that's the ultimate solutions IMO and Gulf country's can even lunch there own satellite with all the Oil money they have but its a matter of convincing the authority's because most of the country's think internet is something secondary and unimportant and not worth spending money on

[Tiridum]

Define sucks. And show a traceroute.

#Define string sucks = >100ms

[Loque]

Well.. to europe I have around 50ms ping, 15 in my country, if it goes to usa its usualy 200ms, always been like that for years..

Tracing route to www.xtremesystems.org [67.90.82.13]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 16 ms 15 ms 14 ms dial-b1-174-29.telepac.pt [194.65.174.29]
4 16 ms 60 ms 60 ms lis2-cr1-te0-0-0-0.cprm.net [195.8.0.78]
5 16 ms 15 ms 15 ms lis1-cr1-po0-0-4-0.cprm.net [195.8.0.73]
6 48 ms 47 ms 47 ms lon2-cr1-po12-0-0.cprm.net [195.8.0.74]
7 48 ms 47 ms 47 ms 195.66.224.130
8 48 ms 48 ms 48 ms p5-0-0d0.rar1.london-en.uk.xo.net [71.5.174.1

9 116 ms 115 ms 115 ms p1-0-0d0.rar1.nyc-ny.us.xo.net [65.106.0.118]
10 149 ms 148 ms 148 ms p6-0-0.RAR2.Chicago-IL.us.xo.net [65.106.0.29
11 181 ms 182 ms 180 ms p1-0-0.rar1.dallas-tx.us.xo.net [65.106.0.34]
12 208 ms 207 ms 207 ms p6-0-0.rar2.la-ca.us.xo.net [65.106.0.14]
13 250 ms 212 ms 212 ms p0-0-0d0.mar2.lasvegas-nv.us.xo.net [71.5.170
]
14 219 ms 218 ms 218 ms 207.88.81.246.ptr.us.xo.net [207.88.81.246]
15 221 ms 216 ms 235 ms ip65-46-24-30.z24-46-65.customer.algx.net [65
.24.30]
16 221 ms 222 ms 221 ms www.xtremesystems.org [67.90.82.13]

[[XC] Lead Head]

we need direct satellite up links that's the ultimate solutions IMO and Gulf country's can even lunch there own satellite with all the Oil money they have but its a matter of convincing the authority's because most of the country's think internet is something secondary and unimportant and not worth spending money on

Satelite internet sucks. Susceptible to weather, and horrid latency (250+ms)

[JaYp146]

It was a spycrab.

THAT CRAB IS A SPY!

[phelan1777]

I think it was Navy Seal mission approved by Bush and his cronies only and it was a secondary side effect of something else being targeted.



Was it a Middle Eastern countries sub playing cat and mouse with a U.S. attach boat and someone got to close to the bottom or the other boat?


Was it a ship sunk by pirates/terrorists?


I could see a 5 ton anchor slicing through a cable a few miles off shore if its a super tanker shoring up to transfer oil/wait for docking orders?

[Baron_Davis]

This is just a sign of things to come....

[Rammsteiner]

Why not have wireless

Like some big sensors spreading out wireless internet trough the sea. Then the crabs dont have to cut wires again to get internet

/note to self, dont drink so much Walker's