Internet Blackout Caused by Attack by Saw and Gun

[Major Tom]

Dumb ass copper thieves!
A cable cut that occurred near Cleveland on Sunday night was caused by a saw and the replacement cable had been shot.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,13635 ... =nl_dnxnws

[elvago]

That night sucked, though Im sure it was a lot worse for people who reside mainly on that Level 3 backbone.

The data center I work at has 3 main transit links in, one of them rides on that Level 3 network to the East Coast. Level 3 is the most important pipe for crossing the pond, so when they hurt, everyone hurts. It's usually only a 80ms latency reaching us from Europe, with that down it was down to something like 290.

Please folks, think of the poor network admins, be intelligent when stealing copper.

[Mattc0m]

That story is too funny.

[s1n]

lol thats crazy

[.space.]

Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't that area a giant bum city?