Partial internet disruption across Europe (8.50PM to 9.50PM BST)

[Saihtam]

This evening (for us europeans) there was a partial internet disruption, which caused any connections to sites as Twitch.tv, Twitter, Reddit, DeviantArt and games as League of Legends to fail.

 

The issues seemed to start around 8.50PM British Summer Time and were fixed at about 9.50PM.

 

According to server- and hostingprovider DigitalOcean, this disruption was caused by the Telias Trans-Atlantic cable. Source

 

 

~ Saihtam

[wilbso]

It was fine for me.

[mathijs727]

Couldnt reach twitch and reddit.

 

Pretty scarry actually since we're so relliant on the internet

[wilbso]

It be like

[wilbso]

Couldnt reach twitch and reddit.

Pretty scarry actually since we're so relliant on the internet

Very true. We are way to reliant on it. One day, everyone will loose connection because of a major accident, who knows what will happen.

[AshWntr]

Couldn't reach here actually, damn cloudflare

[Thunderjolt]

I swear the line are all designed so if one goes down the load from it will be spread out to the other lines and other routes to the same destination albeit with higher latency?

[ZetZet]

I swear the line are all designed so if one goes down the load from it will be spread out to the other lines and other routes to the same destination albeit with higher latency?

but when massive amount of people start flooding through places they shouldn't be everything dies.

[AstroZombie1]

Reddit was buggered for me. 

[Rafy]

That's why my fiber connection was so slow

[Aphexx]

http://www.submarinecablemap.com/#/submarine-cable/tat-14

 

interesting map of all the cables

[Saihtam]

I swear the line are all designed so if one goes down the load from it will be spread out to the other lines and other routes to the same destination albeit with higher latency?

 

The routers are indeed designed to do that, but it takes some time before the routers realise that they should take a different route because their currently known route was down.

This is most likely the reason why for some people it was fixed within half an hour and for others it took about an hour before it was "fixed".

[Thunderjolt]

The routers are indeed designed to do that, but it takes some time before the routers realise that they should take a different route because their currently known route was down.

Ah fair enough. I guess that's true.

[AstroZombie1]

http://www.submarinecablemap.com/#/submarine-cable/tat-14

 

interesting map of all the cables

I was literally about to post that lol. 

 

Further reading if you want to know more. (i'm kidding you'd actually be the worlds biggest dickhead)

 

Still well worth a read I thoroughly enjoyed it. 

[sof006]

So thats why I couldn't open speedtest.net and even this forum. YouTube and Facebook survived... surprisingly..

[SgtFrede]

I knew it! I was playing GW2 and while playing, I tried to get on reddit but I couldn't... Also LinusTechTips didn't work for me.

[colonel_mortis]

Wow this just shows how vulnerable the Internet really is. Imagine if that was done by vandals instead... I had thought that the current design of the Internet made that sort of thing impossible, but if one cable failure is enough to bring down half the Internet then I think the isps, with their vast reserves of cash, should probably start upgrading.

I am surprised that twitch doesn't have any non-us mirrors for their site though because they're not small any more and it would help the site a lot.

[Guest MrE]

The reason some websites worked and others didn't was because the cable was one of the transatlantic once. Websites/services in the EU would still "easily"** be reached as the connectivity to them where not severed/severely reduced.

** of cause however when suddenly a major cable is cut that traffic needs to be re-routed and will cause congestion which could be sites/services in the EU would also become unreachable.

I was trying to get work done as it happened, I only managed to get done at 23:30, was one hell of a night.. and not in a good way.