Posted on 02/01/2008 10:05:00 AM PST by BladeLWS
ping
Will I still get to watch Tiger play golf this weekend?
How are you still online? Do you have a special socks satellite connection?
See #15. Maybe it’s the good guys doing this.
Yep.Sounds like somebody is planning something and absolutely does not want any hand-tipping to give it away. I too thought this was an accident but now,with this 3rd cable cut, i’m not so sure. It certainly is unnerving,to say the least. We better be keeping a really close eye on all of this.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/31/AR2008013101465.html
Internet in India slowed by Middle East outage
Cut cables in the Mediterranean Sea have slowed Internet traffic from India to the U.S. and the UK.
John Ribeiro
PC World
Thursday, January 31, 2008; 10:19 AM
Internet traffic from India to countries like the U.S. and the U.K. has slowed down, as Internet service providers (ISPs) have started diverting traffic from Middle Eastern links to slower links through the Asia-Pacific region, according to the head of an ISP association in India.
Two underwater cables in the Mediterranean Sea, including one from Flag Telecom, owned by India’s Reliance Communications, and another from the South East Asia-Middle East-West Europe 4 (SEA-ME-WE 4) consortium, were damaged Wednesday for reasons as yet unclear.
“These links carry most of India’s premium traffic to the Atlantic region, resulting in a disruption of about 50 to 60 percent of the bandwidth from India on Wednesday when the cables were first damaged,” said Rajesh Chharia, president of the Internet Service Providers’ Association of India (ISPAI), in an interview Thursday.
Most of the traffic has now been routed through submarine cable links in the Asia-Pacific but traffic to the east coast of the U.S. and the U.K. will be slow, because of the longer latency involved by these diversions, Chharia said.
Repairs to the Flag Telecom cable would take at least 10 to 15 days, which would mean that Indian companies, including outsourcing companies, will be affected for this period, Chharia said. A Reliance spokesman could not immediately provide an update on the status of the repairs, and other measures taken by Flag Telecom.
India’s second largest outsourcer, Infosys Technologies, said that its Internet service had not been affected by the outage in the Middle East. The company uses a lot of redundant links from a variety of service providers, a spokeswoman said...
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MORE: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/31/AR2008013101465.html
Cue Glen Beck’s “just another unrelated incident” jingle.
If anything, it is a test-run or part of the Islamofascist attempt to prevent the people in their countries from have contact with Western ideas.
Looks like Iran gave their buddies a mini sub.
“But you know what? McCain does not publicly dispute this status ... he basks in the limelight when someone calls him that ... watch the endorsement by Arnold yesterday and when Arnold mentions McCain as a HERO he beams at the words.”
India didn’t pay their cable bill.
Lol, but actually, FLAG is an Indian-owned submarine cable.
Strange...
You might be right, three makes it sound more deliberate, whether bad guys or good guys.
Things that make you say HMMMMMMMMMM.......PING!!
Dunno. This is my account "at home" (in quarters.) It's not a government connection and seems to be working OK. The server is here in Baghdad, but I don't know where the cable routing is from.
Somebody forgot to pay their cable bill. Man, those cable TV companies!
GLAD THEY DID NOT CUT YOU OFF!!
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