Da-Chief
08-21-2007, 11:59
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you gotta read it .. I can't believe it. but it is true.. One Line and Kaput..:err:
read below..
Da-Chief
http://i.dslr.net/urls/7/3907.gif (http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Yesterdays-Internet-Outage-Gunfire-Related-86813)
While beavers (http://www.corpsman.com/shownews/48454) are clearly a broadband menace, they've got nothing on random gunfire. Back in 2005, we noted (http://www.corpsman.com/shownews/70103) how several users lost DSL connectivity due to "random gunfire to a aerial wire," according to news outlets in New Mexico. Qwest's advice to locals at the time was "don't shoot guns randomly."
That advice wasn't heeded this week in Cleveland, where a Level3 fiber optic cable outage (which many of you experienced first hand while trying to reach us) was blamed on a trigger-happy local (http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20070821/tc_infoworld/91180;_ylt=Asmksq66dkC2MRrTLAZYgi8jtBAF):
Internet service providers in the U.S. experienced a service slowdown Monday after fiber-optic cables near Cleveland were apparently sabotaged by gunfire. . . When technicians pulled up the affected cable, it appeared to have been shot. "Somebody had been shooting with a gun or a shotgun into the cable," said Anders Olausson, a TeliaSonera spokesman.
The outage yesterday affected all kinds of ISPs, including transatlantic traffic (in the sense that some European users attempting to visit U.S. sites were seeing 0.5-1KByte/sec speeds).
you gotta read it .. I can't believe it. but it is true.. One Line and Kaput..:err:
read below..
Da-Chief
http://i.dslr.net/urls/7/3907.gif (http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Yesterdays-Internet-Outage-Gunfire-Related-86813)
While beavers (http://www.corpsman.com/shownews/48454) are clearly a broadband menace, they've got nothing on random gunfire. Back in 2005, we noted (http://www.corpsman.com/shownews/70103) how several users lost DSL connectivity due to "random gunfire to a aerial wire," according to news outlets in New Mexico. Qwest's advice to locals at the time was "don't shoot guns randomly."
That advice wasn't heeded this week in Cleveland, where a Level3 fiber optic cable outage (which many of you experienced first hand while trying to reach us) was blamed on a trigger-happy local (http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20070821/tc_infoworld/91180;_ylt=Asmksq66dkC2MRrTLAZYgi8jtBAF):
Internet service providers in the U.S. experienced a service slowdown Monday after fiber-optic cables near Cleveland were apparently sabotaged by gunfire. . . When technicians pulled up the affected cable, it appeared to have been shot. "Somebody had been shooting with a gun or a shotgun into the cable," said Anders Olausson, a TeliaSonera spokesman.
The outage yesterday affected all kinds of ISPs, including transatlantic traffic (in the sense that some European users attempting to visit U.S. sites were seeing 0.5-1KByte/sec speeds).