Three of four undersea internet cables get cut, hasn't affected you yet
By Darren Murph 
posted Dec 19th 2008 3:30PM
posted Dec 19th 2008 3:30PM
So, there's good news and bad news, and per tradition, we'll be starting with the latter. Three of four undersea cables that route internet traffic from Asia to North America have inexplicably been cut, meaning that your international Quake III server may be a bit slow this evening. The good news is that this fiasco clearly hasn't affected you yet. The AP has confirmed via Egypt's communications ministry that the cables have indeed been severed, causing massive outages in select portions of the world. Oddly, no suspicions of subterfuge have been mentioned, but we have all ideas rumors will start to swirl if another gets snipped. So, tell us readers -- are you still online? Wait, don't answer that.[Via ZDNet]
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What are you on about mine is working fi
But how did you still press the add comment bu
I haven't seen one problem all da
Asia to North America.....
Wait, so does this mean I can finally play a Korean-free game of Starcraft???
I might actually win a game!
All clear on my end. Sunnyvale, CA seems me be alr...
I know nothing about the underwater cables.. I was just on my way to get a Crabby Patty when this happened.
Ok, we coulda stopped after the first two successful, highly ranked irony jokes.
Everything after that was completly overki
i agree wi
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http://www.internettrafficreport.com/
Did anyone see my pet giant killer octopus?
The internet is a series of tubes... ^^ see picture above.
Ha ha ha! You guys are mean, poor haX0r tries to jump into the bandwagon with the outage joke and he gets voted down.
"but we have all ideas rumors will start to swirl if another gets snipped"
er, whut?
Damn!
I was supposed to take the TOEFL iBT today...
It was f***n cancelled due to this "accident". Now I will not get my results on time for my Scolarship Application deadline.
I wished they had their servers on the US instead of India.
This may have just changed my life forever.
What a relief!! I was beginning to worry about that bounced check from Nigeria when I hadn't heard back from the guy.
i finally understand why the engadget comments turn blue!
...I'm lost? it's blank!....
@ Genomalice
WHOOSH!
I'm crying with laughter, There's so much Blue!!!
This has to go into the engadget comment hall of fame.
Damn pirates, where are the ninjas when you need em?
Ninja's? You'll need about 50 of them to take down each pirate.
50 ninjas to take down a pirate? psh. We all know that pirates are useless when up against a ninja. Like mike tyson vs a child. It's a matter of balance, ninja's have it, and a pirate with a wooden leg doesn't. Everyone knows that pirates are merely homeless degenerates with good PR
Not when these pirates are Somali and armed with RPG's Ak-47's and a bunch of nades!!
We're the African Spatnaz!
Wait, is Mike Tyson the Ninja or Pirate in your analogy?
Tell that to Black Beard. It took a lot of guys to take him down.
http://www.ratemymotivational.com/motivationals/13372-NINJAS-When_was_the_last_time_you_saw_a_ninja.jpg
tyson vs a baby? on a biting contest i presume?
When do ninjas go through sea legs training?
Are you my cloud? No?
HAS ANYONE SEE MY COMPUTING CLOUD?????
Where is this Asia?...…I don’t see it on my US road map.
Perhaps when new oil reserves are found...
Erm.
Internetz working ftw!
It would be that be smoking hole to the east
I'd think somewhere in the middle of nowhere, there'd be a small town named Asia in US... surprise! didn't find one...
Undoubtedly the result of the stimutax fiasco.
Sea Lab is amazing! Capt. Murphy is hilarious! (Go Ed Mundy you rule!)
I feel like a bear that has the strength of two bears.
(and it's Stimutacs)
R.I.P. Harry Goz
It's like a koala bear has crapped a rainbow in my brain!
Good in Alabama. Yes.. we have internet here.
When did we get internet? Does this mean I don't have to drive to Mississippi on a daily basis any more?
It depends where you are in alabama, our isp just put in dsl a year ago and it is very unreliable.
thats only until georgia finds out youve been stealing its wifi
Alabama here, lucky to even have internet, good thing i am near florida, its the only thing i have going for me in alabama!
Good, because everyone knows that Alabama is right next to Asia. ;)
What is this internet you speak of?
Nessy is at it again!
The RIAA/MPAA did it! then they pinned it on Nessy. Its funny that this should happen shortly after they announce that they wont be suing anymore people.
I blame north Korea
It comes in threes. In February of this year something similar happened, 3 cables were cut as well. Maybe it's time to think about protecting them somehow?
Yeah its really strange that exactly 3 continue to be cut, one i could see as an accident, 2 maybe.. but 3 cables two different times seems like this is something more
that's why they make 4 of them
FOOLS! If only there were 4,001 hulls - when will we learn?!
Time to get wireless...
I remember this. I was deployed to the desert and had no internet for 3 weeks. I'm suprised that this is happening again....
wait... no I'm not.
the whales need to stop eating the cables........
I blame North Korea
those people will be able to answer this survey honestly now.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/12/15/internet.sex.survey/index.html
I got *0* spam last night.. could this by why?
hmmgh I'm still running at 1.8 Mbps on AT&T 3g iPhone ,been engadgeting on iPhone fine,.
That's it?
thats it very slow 3g speed on iphone browsing only 1800 kbps.,sux huh.,i do speed test thru testmyiphone.com .i wish i had what u had.,sounds so cool...dee dee deee
I love how any Apple-related comment automatically gets voted down and low-ranked. You people are unbelievable.
no mike its the fact that his traffic isnt even traveling across those cables.
I blame the scooba diving camels!
or the boltcutters of mass distraction.
seems fine here....
OH NOES! the internet isn't working for me...
oh wait ,this just in .i heard storm users are having trouble with the push screen,accelerometer.,n stuff.,oh wait.,dee dee deee,
n now they returning storms.,50% or something about highest selling cell phone of all times!.,something like that..,dee dee deee
You my friend are a complete and utter tool.
Yes.
Whoops.
Sucks.
Did three cables not get snipped this time last year?
I'm sure I've read they've been cut before on many occasions these last couple of years. Anyone noticed that they're always three cables that are cut. Conspiracy theorists are going to have a field day.
Sucks.
You mean 'cuts'.
You mean they're not really tubes?
its effected here in UAE, damn slow,, cant get connected to any game servers... ping on my fav servers r now hitting 4000 :)
Pretty soon it will be over 9000!
If there is even a sniff of an outage in a western (preferably English speaking) country, the all hell will break loose.
no, if the internet stops working i'll just go play halo on xbox live. oh wait-
Sounds like the work of sharks with friggin' laser beams.
if u look at the picture hard enough.,ull see a guy near the cable with scissors in his back pocket, looks like he on his storm.free underwater wifi thru vzw.oh wait non,storm dont have wifi.,hmmh,,dee dee deee
matt seems angry,. Y don't u go browse via wifi on ur storm to some of fav sites,oh wait no wifi hmmhhh dee dee deee
Hmmm, in the NE (NJ here) we are getting hammered with nasty weather, I thought that was the reason why things are crawling. Even my wireless internet...
wow it would suck to live under those conditions.,im in cali.,just a lil rain,sucks just got my truck waxed,
Ahem, that was for shugg, and also thuis commenting system.
I know nothing about the underwater cables.. I was just on my way to get a Crabby Patty when this happened.
So there will be fewer attacks on my servers originating from Russian and China??? This is fantastic!
why dont you just bury those damn cables and be done with it
Cause it's really hard on the guys with the shovels.
Um, tectonic plates and the Ring of Fire?
What the hell does Johnny Cash have to do with th'internetz?
I guarantee you it's the work of a mischievous sawfish
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/education/questions/sawfish1.jpg
Also stingrays.
They got Steve now they're taking our internet! >:(
Too soon man, too soon...
How much of an internet outage would there be if all the cables were cut? I mean, how much ISP traffic can be routed via satellite, and how "much" of the internet is "located" within the continental US anyway?
Everyone knows the regular internet only needs one cable. The other three are for porn.
*darn*, now I know why