Explanation for some of the lag yesterday

MasterPatricko

MasterPatricko

Academy Page

Join Date: Mar 2006

Aberdeen, Scotland

Liars, Cheats and Thieves [LIAR]

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Well I noticed the lag was quite bad yesterday and I saw the company Level 3 being mentioned in the forums ... and guess what I saw in the news today:

Quote:
"Internet service providers in the US experienced a service slowdown Monday after fiber-optic cables near Cleveland were apparently sabotaged by gunfire. TeliaSonera AB, which lost the northern leg of its US network to the cut, said that the outage began around 7 p.m. Pacific Time on Sunday night. When technicians pulled up the affected cable, it appeared to have been shot up over a length of a kilometer. 'Somebody had been shooting with a gun or a shotgun into the cable,' said a TeliaSonera spokesman. The company declined to name the service provider whose lines had been cut, but a source familiar with the situation said the lines are owned by Level 3 Communications Inc. Level 3 could not be reached for comment."
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Hopefully we wont have people shooting up teh internets during the preview weekend. :P

Yanman.be

Yanman.be

Banned

Join Date: Dec 2005

Belgium

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America is so guncrazy they start shooting bits of light now eh?

immortius

immortius

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Aug 2005

Black Cats

E/Mo

Now calm down. I'm sure the cable attacked first and they were merely retaliating in self defence.