Posted on 01/30/2008 9:01:48 AM PST by Ancient Drive
Internet services have been disrupted in parts of the Middle East following damage to an undersea cable in the Mediterranean, according to reports.
There was disruption to 70% of the nationwide network in Egypt, a government official told Reuters.
There was also disruption in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, reported the Associated Press.
India also suffered up to 60% disruption, a national industry body told Reuters news agency.
Egypt's Telecommunications Ministry said it would probably take several days for internet services to return to normal following the disruption on Wednesday.
In Dubai, one of the two internet service providers (ISP) was completely down, reported AP.
An official at the provider, DU, told AP that a fault in a cable between Alexandria, Egypt, and Palermo, Italy, was to blame.
In Kuwait, the Gulfnet International Company apologised by e-mail to customers for "degraded performance in internet browsing".
Saudi Arabia users complained that the internet was slow or totally down, while there were complaints of slow services in Bahrain and Qatar, reported AP.
The Internet Service Providers' Association of India told Reuters that disruption there was due to a breakdown in an international undersea cable network.
“An official at the provider, DU...”
And what exactly damages an undersea cable ? Divers? Drilling? or the muslims favorite boogeyman... Israeli divers?
DU is their Web provider?
Well, that should fill their need for anti-American rants....
Sounds like what they said, but if I were going to war, I would start with something like this to disrupt communications.
(Palastinians looking for copper wire to sell for scrap?)
Anchoring can do it. Bottomfish trawling can do it.
Nothing against these brand, or types of trawl door, since their both pretty good. The one one the left works better in deep water, though.
It’s also a good way to narrow down where “go” signals are originating.
Knock out half of a communications net. If the “go” signal still gets through, then you know it came from the other half.
So then you concnetrate on that half...typically repeating the same “test” to divide that section into halves, as well.
THAT'S IT!!!!
Nations which rake in billions of dollars depend on a single fiber optic cable to the rest of the world? Just another example of Islam hindering development and progress.
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Not likely, since it is affecting us in Israel.
How bad is the disruption?
You know it's a new day when the cable runs between Palermo, capital of Sicily, and the Middle East, yet people first suspect the Palestinians and not the Sicilians.
Here in Kuwait it was pretty bad. VoIP was impossible, at work our .mil traffic came to a crawl, and at home both my ADSL and HSDPA networks I use were no better than dialup.
This morning (6:30am) seems to be a lot better, but pings to NY are still in the 300~400ms. Usually sub 200ms.
Gotta say though... while a lot of sites would not even load, FR always came up!
KK
Are they logged in?
In a seemingly unrelated story, logins at DU have dropped drastically!! LOL!!
Actually, alternate pacific route optic cables have taken most of the load in India, after the cable failure in Egypt:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1963825/posts?page=15#15
My slingbox won't work but I can send email and I can Skype. So audio and text work but video is critically impaired.
Sounds like a good way to disrupt islamist wacko terrorist communations [JMHO]
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