Ship destroys internet for 75 million people

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by hitting an undersea cable that carries the internets from Europe to Asia: How one clumsy ship cut off the web for 75 million people | Technology | The Guardian

According to reports, the internet blackout, which has left 75 million people with only limited access, was caused by a ship that tried to moor off the coast of Egypt in bad weather on Wednesday. Since then phone and internet traffic has been severely reduced across a huge swath of the region, slashed by as much as 70% in countries including India, Egypt and Dubai.

Map of cables across the world:http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Technology/Pix/pictures/2008/02/01/SeaCableHi.jpg

 

[Harper]

Explains why the internet has been a bit sluggish for me for the past few days.


All the traffic that would normally be going out of Perth is come through Sydney instead.

 

[Kharn]

Well isn't that just dandy.

 

[gurusan]

no internets!

might as well commit suicide!

 

[Yek]

Haha, I haven't seen that map before. Thats a **** of a lot of cable between the UK and US!!!

 

[Kharn]

An quite a bit of it comes ashore 20 miles from my house.

 

[gurusan]

yeah we need all that cable for our HD torrents USA tv shows > all

 

[Phantom118]

wow.... that's pretty funny..

 

[NayNay1991x]

Mines fine

Thank god

 

[Kharn]

Mines fine

Thank god

I think thats because most of your traffic is heading west rather than east.