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Internet Blackout Caused by Attack by Saw and Gun

PostPosted: Sat Aug 25, 2007 10:31 am
by 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

Re: Internet Blackout Caused by Attack by Saw and Gun

PostPosted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 3:28 am
by 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.

Re: Internet Blackout Caused by Attack by Saw and Gun

PostPosted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 11:35 am
by Mattc0m
That story is too funny. :D

Re: Internet Blackout Caused by Attack by Saw and Gun

PostPosted: Tue Dec 04, 2007 4:46 am
by s1n
lol thats crazy

Re: Internet Blackout Caused by Attack by Saw and Gun

PostPosted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 12:48 pm
by .space.
Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't that area a giant bum city?