It was originally designed to survive a nuclear blast (or two). If they’re that dependent on a single cable for an entire region to balance capacity, then I’d say we are miles behind the curve.The Conservative wrote: ↑Tue Jan 26, 2021 3:15 pmThe internet is not as broad as you think it is... Remember, how many jumps can an internet connection take maximum before it times out?SuburbanFarmer wrote: ↑Tue Jan 26, 2021 3:06 pmPower grid, sure. But the internet is very specifically designed to avoid single points of failure. This is pretty weird.The Conservative wrote: ↑Tue Jan 26, 2021 2:01 pm
Pfft, people truly don't understand how weak our infrastructure truly is.
Think of it this way, the way our infrastructure it designed to get to Mass to CA it takes a an average on 30 jumps...
You drop a connection in the middle, it needs to find another way, that does not always mean the fastest route, and if you overburden some nodes people's internet just will drop.
The US internet infrastructure is one step better than our power, it has redundancy, but not at the level required to keep from collapsing is a major node or hub does go down. Remember, it uses the same base infrastructure out electricity runs on.
Again, even if someone cut a main trunk line, this should never happen. And those are supposed to be guarded, or extremely protected.