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It's a complete shutdown, likely somebody pulled the plug on the sole cable which connects the country to the Internet.
by baybal2 5y ago
It's a complete shutdown, likely somebody pulled the plug on the sole cable which connects the country to the Internet.
- SilasX 5y agoWait, so the South Park scene was actually accurate for some countries’ internet? https://youtube.com/watch?v=zAJbOygaJ0o https://youtube.com/watch?v=zAJbOygaJ0o
- capableweb 5y agoMost countries do have something similar in place where they can turn off the outside connections if needed. I don't think it has happened yet in any western country, but those safe-guards are in place at the edges of the national network.
- iso1210 5y agoI remember trying to get internet in Kabul when we expanded an office there about a decade ago, there was one fibre over the khyber pass to Pakistan, and I seem to remember the connections north and south to Uzbekistan/Iran relied on a ropey copper ring circuit with c. 100mbit of connectivity - for the entire traffic. That episode was released in 2008, a lot of countries in Africa then had just one subsea circuit, if that, before WACS, before EASSy. If I remember right, even bandwidth out of Austrailia cost a fortune.