Three of Vietnam's Five Undersea Internet Cables Are Down (reuters.com) 35
Three out of Vietnam's five active international undersea internet cables are down, state media said over the weekend, the second major round of outages in the country in just over a year. From a report: The problems with the three cables, which connect Vietnam with the United States, Europe and Asia, have "significantly affected Vietnam's internet connection with the world", reported the official Vietnam News Agency. Vietnam is connected to the global internet mainly via five undersea cables with a combined capacity of nearly 62 Tbps, according to data from FPT, one of the country's top internet service providers. It's not clear if the three cables referred to, which account for most of the bandwidth, are totally or partially down.
Draggin' a Line (Score:5, Funny)
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hmmmmm (Score:5, Interesting)
China: "Your cables were on our 5 dash line."
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Probably down there trying to tap into the cables for spying. Only problem is they used the Chinese made stuff to seal it up after.....
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Should have used Wi-Fi Duh (Score:5, Funny)
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While not "wi-fi", Microwave relay is a thing, even across large bodies of water.
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If you have enough repeaters, sure. Since microwave is line of sight, and the Earth is curved, the distance between repeaters is determined by the height of your repeater towers. For example if your repeater towers are 100 meters high, you can space your repeaters every 40 km. If your repeater towers are 200 m high, you can space your repeaters every 60 km.
If you wanted to link the Vietnam to, say, the Phillipines, with no repeaters in the South China Sea, you'd have to build the towers on either side to
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For example if your repeater towers are 100 meters high, you can space your repeaters every 40 km. If your repeater towers are 200 m high, you can space your repeaters every 60 km.
It would cost a bundle according to your numbers. We just put the towers on a high point like a small mountain, bigger is OK too! Just have secondary links with line of sight to the towers if you need to deserve something relatively lower. That's how we do it.
I wonder (Score:4, Insightful)
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Yeah, that'd probably do it.
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Which made the Vietnam War truly crazy. We should have respected the Geneva Conference.
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china sea islands, china is taking over every rock or sand and claiming as theirs, and so the maritime border... even if that rock is already inside other country maritime zone...
https://www.express.co.uk/news... [express.co.uk]
Opportunity for Starlink Mini (Score:2)
https://www.starlinkhardware.c... [starlinkhardware.com]
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Chinese (Score:4, Informative)
It's not clear if the three cables referred to, which account for most of the bandwidth, are totally or partially down.
It's not clear if the chinese purposely or accidentally damaged all three cables /s
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This ^
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If Russia blew up its own pipeline (Score:2)
Clearly Vietnam severed its own cables. It's only logical.
China isn't learning from history (Score:4, Informative)
You'd think of all the countries China would be able to learn from their history.
The last time China tried to mess with Vietnam, it didn't go that well for them. (In fact, last time *anyone* tried to mess with Vietnam, but that's for another day)
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Vietnam is Asia's Afghanistan.
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Dammit! The Deep State moved 'em again!
I always thought of it as a Middle East country.
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You'd think of all the countries China would be able to learn from their history. The last time China tried to mess with Vietnam, it didn't go that well for them. (In fact, last time *anyone* tried to mess with Vietnam, but that's for another day)
Well, it's kind of been a mixed bag for everybody. China did have some naval victories over Vietnam that enabled China to control some still disputed islands in the South China Sea and Vietnam has never been able to regain control over what it lost. China invaded Vietnam in 1979 to try to save the genocidal Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, which Vietnam had invaded to remove them from power. China took a few border towns/villages but in the end left and was unable to stop Vietnam from removing the Khmer Rouge.
The VC (Score:2)
The Viet Cong done it.
Tangentially related (Score:3)
If you ever go hiking, bring a length of fiber with you. If you get lost, bury it. Pretty soon, a backhoe will be along to dig it up.
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Have they tried turning computers off and on? (Score:2)
*unplugs coffee machine and plugs Vietnam's routers back in*