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Originally Posted by flamesfan6
i laughed at the guy who phoned into the zone this morning saying that it was a fibre optic line cut in the ocean that served just google... Yea google has it's own fibre optic line that serves the island and just has gmail/google/youtube on it ... no that's not how google/gmail/youtube work.. (ignoring the fact that it was related to shaw customers affected only at this point)
Yes, google has fibre optic internet in one place in the states, but that would cause those customers to lose all of their internet, not just google provided stuff - if a fibre optic line was cut it would be far more than just google/youtube/gmail that would be down, it would be all of shaw's internet.
shaw screwed something up with some packet filtering stuff they were doing, probably trying to put in some detection for detecting illegally download stuff or something, 100% shaw's problem in it's software, not at all a fibre line cut.
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Ya it sounded fishy to me, that's why I added the disclaimer. Pretty ridiculous f up by Shaw though. So dumb.
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