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Re:The Internet is experiencing severe outages across North ... by Jailout2000 on Friday October 26, 2012 @11:57AM (#4702774)
I'm in Texas but apparently it has 100% loss. I call shenanigans.
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Re:The Internet is experiencing severe outages across North ... by evan_ on Friday October 26, 2012 @12:59PM (#4703086)
That's not what the "location" column means- you don't think there are exactly two cords leading into the state of Texas, do you? It's just the physical location of that router.
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Re:The Internet is experiencing severe outages across North ... by sukuriant on Friday October 26, 2012 @01:27PM (#4703230)
no, not two cords, two very wide tubes that trucks can go through.
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Re:The Internet is experiencing severe outages across North ... by Jailout2000 on Tuesday October 30, 2012 @09:06AM (#4717168)
That's for international communication. States have power poles (notice all the wires on them? they're not just power...) and buried wires that a lot of the internet also go through.
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