Millions Disconnected By Broadband Outage

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Almost three million Japanese internet users were knocked offline yesterday when the country's largest broadband provider went down for hours. According to the report, the outage was one of the largest in years and the cause is still being investigated.

NTT East said 2.85 million customers lost Internet service at 6:44 p.m. (9:44 a.m. GMT) on Tuesday, the carrier said in a statement. The outage, the cause of which is still being investigated, lasted until 1:35 a.m. on Wednesday when the last of the affected customers was reconnected.
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Man what are the poor Japanese going to do!?!
 
there was a magnitude 4.8 reported yesterday. probably was that earthquake :p
 
They should try Charter. They go down like that all the time. They just don't care. :rolleyes:
 
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"Of those affected, 1.2 million were on fiber-optic connections, "

I'd be willing to put up with an overnight outage every 12 years for a fiber-optic connection. Heck - I have daily outages with Comcast (albeit short ones, but annoying since they can't seem to fix the whole neighborhood going out everyday. Who cares if it's a huge area, it is only 10 minutes daily. : / ), and my connection is nowhere near fiber.
 
Heh, I'll take a fiber connection. I don't care if it went down once a year, just to have that speed would be great.
 
They should try Charter. They go down like that all the time. They just don't care.
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Haha, Charter goes down more often than a hooker on a good day.
 
Just imagine all those kids playing WOW, what are they going to do, they are probably going into withdrawl.
 
Network Engineer and Admin are probably working their butts off to get everything in working condition. It would drive me nuts...:mad:
 
Who are the crazies using ISDN? I was actually going to make some sort of pun saying "ohhhh, all those poor japanese losing their massive fiber lines for a few hours"....looks like it was pretty spot on though.....although i'm surprised at the amount still using DSL....since i figured the fiber hookup was rather reasonably priced.
 
lol i have charter ;). Its gotten better now in day than before. It hasn't gone out in awhile. Probably since old people live around here that barelly anyone has cable internet. I bet it was a move by the company to get a billion dollars in a few hours like enron and stuff. Shuts off power to california for a few seconds and they made billions ;). Atleast japan they have 100mb+ internet. I'm pretty sure whatever they wanted to download has already finished when it got disconnected lol.
 
In other news, illegal content downloading dropped %99 during the outage worldwide.... investigators still looking for the cause.
 
Thing I don't like is this sounds kinda bad for cisco like they are taking the blame and the article sounds like they haven't figured out what the issue is yet. Could be that the routers were configured wrong and that the backup routes were not tested right.
 
swatbat said:
Thing I don't like is this sounds kinda bad for cisco like they are taking the blame and the article sounds like they haven't figured out what the issue is yet. Could be that the routers were configured wrong and that the backup routes were not tested right.
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Apparently it was an update to the routers that seemed to have FUBR'd them, stopping lookups or something.
 
MrGuvernment said:
Apparently it was an update to the routers that seemed to have FUBR'd them, stopping lookups or something.
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Sounds like the IT staff didn't test the update for compatability issues with their config files.
 
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