> Jed sez: > My ISP, NetworkTel, has had the slows all week. I have a T1 connection in > Atlanta and I just talked the tech support guy, who it turns out is in > Florida. He says the network backbone all across the Southeast has been hit > hard by Katrina, and traffic is being routed around the breaks every which > direction. I do not think he is making excuses. > > It is surprising how fragile modern society is. > > - Jed > On the other hand, the Internet was originally designed to survive outages and attacks either of a natural or geopolitical political nature. As I'm sure you well know the system was designed to reroute it's messages around the damaged areas. The fact that you're getting messages (albeit not as quickly as you would like) proves that the system appears to have survived the attack.
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