undersea cable cuts
H. Lally Singh
death_to_nt at mac.com
Mon Feb 4 22:25:48 PST 2008
On Feb 5, 2008, at 1:05 AM, Bill Stewart wrote:
>
> Satellites have very limited bandwidth compared to fiber.
> They may be ok for countries that don't have useful infrastructure,
> like Iraq, Afghanistan, and most of Africa,
> but they don't begin to replace the internet or private network
> connectivity
> that was on the fiber systems that were cut;
> I don't know how big the fourth cable was.
The latency will also keep you out of xbox live.
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