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Old 16-12-2017, 08:09 AM #7
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Originally Posted by Toy Santa View Post
I presume it's to disrupt the connections between the US and Europe specifically? Would it actually cut all access though? Couldn't you bounce round the other way... Like go through a proxy in mainland Europe, then maybe India, South East Asia, NZ, then across to the west coast of the US or Southern American countries THEN the US if necessary? I mean it would slow you down a lot but you'd still get a connection.


Or is the US's global access wholly reliant on cables in the Atlantic? If so then this seems like it must be more about the US / Russia than the UK. Although it would cause some pretty major global problems as a large number of nameservers are US based I think.
It's not that simple, its also about bandwidth and response times. Any loss of access routes to the UK would be pretty catastrophic
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