Three of four undersea internet cables get cut, hasn't affected you yet

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]

[Eli @ Dec 19th 2008 3:33PM]

As long as the fourth cable doesn't ge

[Samboini @ Dec 19th 2008 3:38PM]

What are you on about mine is working fi

[Wolfticket @ Dec 19th 2008 3:47PM]

But how did you still press the add comment bu

[haX0r @ Dec 19th 2008 3:49PM]

I haven't seen one problem all da

[ByronGman @ Dec 19th 2008 3:53PM]

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!

[Ryoga Vee @ Dec 19th 2008 3:53PM]

All clear on my end. Sunnyvale, CA seems me be alr...

[Blastar @ Dec 19th 2008 3:55PM]

I know nothing about the underwater cables.. I was just on my way to get a Crabby Patty when this happened.

[Nerd Ferguson @ Dec 19th 2008 3:58PM]

Ok, we coulda stopped after the first two successful, highly ranked irony jokes.

Everything after that was completly overki

[Jeff @ Dec 19th 2008 4:01PM]

i agree wi

[sixt33n @ Dec 19th 2008 4:04PM]

fffffffffuuuuuuu

[Aaron @ Dec 19th 2008 4:16PM]

http://www.internettrafficreport.com/

[Jean-Michel Decombe @ Dec 19th 2008 5:54PM]

Did anyone see my pet giant killer octopus?

[Ogo @ Dec 19th 2008 7:09PM]

The internet is a series of tubes... ^^ see picture above.

[War Machine @ Dec 20th 2008 2:13AM]

Ha ha ha! You guys are mean, poor haX0r tries to jump into the bandwagon with the outage joke and he gets voted down.

[chezzo @ Dec 20th 2008 8:30AM]

"but we have all ideas rumors will start to swirl if another gets snipped"

er, whut?

[Alex @ Dec 20th 2008 10:58PM]

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.

[Random BSOD @ Dec 19th 2008 3:34PM]

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[Who Knows @ Dec 19th 2008 3:55PM]

This may have just changed my life forever.

[Jason @ Dec 19th 2008 3:58PM]

What a relief!! I was beginning to worry about that bounced check from Nigeria when I hadn't heard back from the guy.

[thatrotierkid @ Dec 19th 2008 4:03PM]

i finally understand why the engadget comments turn blue!

[GenoMalice @ Dec 19th 2008 4:14PM]

...I'm lost? it's blank!....

[i.c. weiner @ Dec 19th 2008 7:54PM]

@ Genomalice

WHOOSH!

[Matthew C @ Dec 19th 2008 11:03PM]

I'm crying with laughter, There's so much Blue!!!

This has to go into the engadget comment hall of fame.

[B3astofthe3ast @ Dec 19th 2008 3:34PM]

Damn pirates, where are the ninjas when you need em?

[BigD145 @ Dec 19th 2008 4:09PM]

Ninja's? You'll need about 50 of them to take down each pirate.

[Gnaget @ Dec 19th 2008 4:16PM]

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

[GenoMalice @ Dec 19th 2008 4:22PM]

Not when these pirates are Somali and armed with RPG's Ak-47's and a bunch of nades!!
We're the African Spatnaz!

[jojo4bee @ Dec 19th 2008 4:58PM]

Wait, is Mike Tyson the Ninja or Pirate in your analogy?

[BigD145 @ Dec 19th 2008 7:23PM]

Tell that to Black Beard. It took a lot of guys to take him down.

[CT A @ Dec 19th 2008 9:04PM]

http://www.ratemymotivational.com/motivationals/13372-NINJAS-When_was_the_last_time_you_saw_a_ninja.jpg

[BratPAQ @ Dec 19th 2008 11:12PM]

tyson vs a baby? on a biting contest i presume?

[Arg! @ Dec 20th 2008 12:48AM]

When do ninjas go through sea legs training?

[hckng-R-T-fakt @ Dec 19th 2008 3:34PM]

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[Jason @ Dec 19th 2008 4:09PM]

Are you my cloud? No?

HAS ANYONE SEE MY COMPUTING CLOUD?????

[patriotsn1 @ Dec 19th 2008 3:35PM]

Undoubtedly the result of the stimutax fiasco.

[Michael B @ Dec 19th 2008 3:37PM]

Sea Lab is amazing! Capt. Murphy is hilarious! (Go Ed Mundy you rule!)

[why not the LS2LS7? @ Dec 19th 2008 4:28PM]

I feel like a bear that has the strength of two bears.

(and it's Stimutacs)

R.I.P. Harry Goz

[LameDuck @ Dec 19th 2008 5:13PM]

It's like a koala bear has crapped a rainbow in my brain!

[RT @ Dec 19th 2008 3:35PM]

Where is this Asia?...…I don’t see it on my US road map.

[tekdroid @ Dec 19th 2008 3:40PM]

Perhaps when new oil reserves are found...

Erm.

Internetz working ftw!

[DiGiC @ Dec 19th 2008 3:41PM]

It would be that be smoking hole to the east

[GaryZ @ Dec 19th 2008 5:36PM]

I'd think somewhere in the middle of nowhere, there'd be a small town named Asia in US... surprise! didn't find one...

[Othello @ Dec 19th 2008 3:36PM]

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?

[racethesun @ Dec 19th 2008 3:45PM]

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

[Johnny @ Dec 19th 2008 3:46PM]

that's why they make 4 of them

[Jeff @ Dec 19th 2008 4:00PM]

FOOLS! If only there were 4,001 hulls - when will we learn?!

[Shinigami @ Dec 19th 2008 4:55PM]

Time to get wireless...

[james @ Dec 21st 2008 2:22PM]

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........

[[e-mail] @ Dec 19th 2008 3:36PM]

I blame North Korea

[Random BSOD @ Dec 19th 2008 3:37PM]

I blame north Korea