That's the lovely part of redundancy :) It'd be slow, but existent. Then again, circa 1997 the entire eastern seaboard was disconnected from the western united states for a (very small) period of time due to a cable break. That made me feel real good about the whole packet detouring thing... or at least the architects of said network's idea of detouring... --Dan Lund "This day will be a great day in our history - the date of a new revolution, quite as much needed as the old one." --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's diary after the hanging of John Smith in Charles Town, Virginia (now West Virginia) December 2, 1859 On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 5:02 PM, S Kreimeyer <skreimey@gmail.com> wrote:I met one of the civil engineers whom helped build Denver international airport. He said that they had to work around a fiber optic cable, and that if it were severed the damages were estimated somewhere around $3M/sec. I don't think there's much appreciation for how vulnerable net infrastructure is. On Wed, 2011-04-06 at 16:29 -0700, Jordan Aberle wrote:Pwned. On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 4:23 PM, keith smith <klsmith2020@yahoo.com> wrote: Entire country loses internet for five hours after woman, 75, slices through cable while scavenging for copper. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/06/georgian-woman-cuts-web-access ------------------------ Keith Smith 2 Chronicles 7:14 (New International) : if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land. --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss--------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss--------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss