Ross Drummond wrote: > The head scratcher for me is how it affected my ISP Snap. > > My understanding is that their upstream provider is TelstraClear. My traffic > should have been routed via TelstraClears' fibre optic cable which runs > alongside the North Island Main Trunk Railway. Straight past the breaks in > Telecom Network and out into the wide world via the international gateway.
If you connect *to* your ISP over Telstra-owned cable, you shouldn't be affected. However, you might connect to them over Telecom-owned cabling, in which case the logon authentication is handled by Telecom, even though your data is then passed into a Telstra company, and thence out to the world (excluding NZ, because Telstra and Telecom don't peer with other NZ ISPs properly) -jim
