MERGED - Connection problems in Bromley

Originally Posted by greencreeper

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020330,39118125,00.htm

""France Telecom will send a cable ship out to fix and repair the problem," said a BT spokesman, adding that the cause of the problem is not known. It's also not clear how long the fault will take to repair. "

OH F#CK


Doe's it have to be a French ship. Do they have any idea what there doing

[greencreeper]

http://www.globalmarinesystems.com/s...tion_tat14.htm

Hell of a long cable

Surface Lay: 8,900 km by Global Marine
System Total 15,203 km
Burial: 3,438 km by Global Marine
System Total 3,885 km

[downquark1]

AHHHHHHHH the internet is breaking down - the time for mass panic has come

:p

[handyman]

/me slaps dq1

[downquark1]

Originally Posted by handyman

/me slaps dq1

Thanks, for a moment there I thought we would revert to an agrarian society

[philip.j.fry]

Originally Posted by downquark1

AHHHHHHHH the internet is breaking down - the time for mass panic has come

:p

I may just have to confront the fact that I have no life

[SMHarman]

Originally Posted by greencreeper

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020330,39118125,00.htm

""France Telecom will send a cable ship out to fix and repair the problem," said a BT spokesman, adding that the cause of the problem is not known. It's also not clear how long the fault will take to repair. "

How far is it to America and how does the ship find the fault? I hope it doesn't have to examine every bit of the cable - could take months It'll be sharks - should kill more of them

Oddly enough, for me, everything is working faster than it's ever worked before

from your zdnet source

"According to BT, a member of the consortium, the disruption occurred between France and the Netherlands and disrupted a range of telecommunication services. "

Here's a map,



They don't have to go trawing across the atlantic, just up the north sea...

[greencreeper]

Originally Posted by SMHarman

from your zdnet source

"According to BT, a member of the consortium, the disruption occurred between France and the Netherlands and disrupted a range of telecommunication services. "

They don't have to go trawing across the atlantic, just up the north sea...

The dangers of skim reading Any witty ideas as to what caused the break then? Earthquakes are out because our plate is fairly stable. No sharks to speak of - well, very few. Maybe a barrel of radioactive waste dropped on the cable? The Irish trying to tunnel out?

[SMHarman]

Originally Posted by greencreeper

The dangers of skim reading Any witty ideas as to what caused the break then? Earthquakes are out because our plate is fairly stable. No sharks to speak of - well, very few. Maybe a barrel of radioactive waste dropped on the cable? The Irish trying to tunnel out?

Could be a container that fell overboard and touched down on top of it, 20,000 fall overboard each year!

Must take some interesting skill sets to repair it. Do you pull it off the ground to examine it, or send a submersible to look at it. Do you send divers down to repair it? You can hardly spot weld it, or pull it up?

It kinda makes sense that the break happened along a coastline, the water is shallower and more likely to shift at the bottom, the cable across the mid atlantic is probably exactly where it was first laid.

[Bex]

well nice to see that it wasn't just me who had problems yesterday...our BB was completely down last night...and speaking to someone i work to today heres was also (she lives in the same village)....she's having some problems with her phoneline etc, so have directed her to this site

[Alan Waddington]

My BB connection has stopped working again Too fed up to investigate further. My Pipex Dial account is working though. Good thing i'm going out shortly.

[zaax]

a map of cyber space

Half way down you will see the map which shows TAT-13 coming off the point in Brittany near Brest

[greencreeper]

Originally Posted by SMHarman

Could be a container that fell overboard and touched down on top of it, 20,000 fall overboard each year!

Must take some interesting skill sets to repair it. Do you pull it off the ground to examine it, or send a submersible to look at it. Do you send divers down to repair it? You can hardly spot weld it, or pull it up?

It kinda makes sense that the break happened along a coastline, the water is shallower and more likely to shift at the bottom, the cable across the mid atlantic is probably exactly where it was first laid.

Does anybody try and recover those containers and/or their contents? Might take up scuba diving

They lift the cable from the bottom and look at it. That must mean an awful lot of slack in the cable though, which will make it tricky to find the cable and/or the broken bit. Not sure how they find it - maybe sonar or the radiation given off by the cable.

If it's just off the coast the authorities might want to check Ebay for cheap lengths of very thick cable

[handyman]

One would imagine that the fibre could be located by gps very easily, they lift the fibre and split it and they run tests back to the base station to identifiy if they have a the right bit. I also think they can light the fibre in such away that gives them a rough idea where the fault is.

This is all highly interesting stuff, I'm learning heaps about the internet. :geek:

Originally Posted by downquark1

Thanks, for a moment there I thought we would revert to an agrarian society

i really,really wanted to rep you for this but i can't because i have to go rep a few people before repping you again.
right who wants a point?

incog.