I'm in Saudi Arabia. It's near dial-up on a 4mbps DSL link. Though loading sites seems to have more trouble making connection than downloading on an established

I'm in Saudi Arabia. It's near dial-up on a 4mbps DSL link. Though loading sites seems to have more trouble making connection than downloading on an established link (if you've used a satellite connection, it's like that). Our Sysadmin sent this today: (from http://www.francetelecom.com/en_EN/press/press_releases/cp081219en.html http://www.francetelecom.com/en_EN/press/press_releases/cp08... ) A first appraisal at 7:44 am UTC gave an estimate of the following impact on the voice traffic (in percentage of out of service capacity): - Djibouti: 71% out of service - Egypt: 52% out of service - United Arab Emirates: 68% out of service - India: 82% out of service - Lebanon: 16% out of service - Malaysia: 42% out of service - Maldives: 100% out of service - Pakistan: 51% out of service - Qatar: 73% out of service - Saudi Arabia: 55% out of service - Syria: 36% out of service - Taiwan: 39% out of service - Yemen: 38% out of service - Zambia: 62% out of service