Alphy
join:2001-12-31
Troy, MI | reply to fiqqq
Re: hmmm
Exactly. Sounds like these CEO's are spinning this in order to boost revenue by fear-mongering. I mean yes, the internet is prone to major failure, but what major infrastructure isn't? |
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en102
Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA
 ·RoadRunner Cable
 ·DSL EXTREME
| While the Internet can handle outages through re-routing of traffic, I suspect that this is more of a case that some businesses would suffer from their SLA's. I.e. email, browsing may be slowed, however, items such as IPTV or other bandwidth hogs could be disabled, especially if going outside the country. |
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Jafo232
You Can't Spell Democrat Without Rat.
Premium
join:2002-10-17
Boonville, NY
·RoadRunner Cable
| There is a simple way to take the Internet offline:
Take the powergrid down.
You don't even have to know how to use a computer to do that.
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Jigsaw
Stardust We Are
Premium
join:2000-10-21
Cleveland, OH
·Cox HSI
1 edit | said by Jafo232  :There is a simple way to take the Internet offline: Take the powergrid down. You don't even have to know how to use a computer to do that. That happened here we were down for about a day and a half!I think it was one of the biggest blackouts in US history.
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newyorkslick
join:2001-12-19
Rosedale, NY | True, but I was still able to use my aol account to dial into Virginia. Even though most of the sites hosted in the affected area were down, the rest were working without a hitch.
Too bad my battery died after 2 hours. :-( |
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