http://shanghaiist.com/2007/01/03/quake_cable_dam.php All comments for Quake cable damage 'more serious than estimated' en-us 2009 shang_kenneth Wed, 07 Jan 2009 05:00:13 +0800 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss kenneth@shanghaiist.com kenneth@shanghaiist.com 60 http://shanghaiist.com/2007/01/03/quake_cable_dam.php#comment-877022 http://shanghaiist.com/2007/01/03/quake_cable_dam.php#comment-877022 Comments Thu, 04 Jan 2007 15:00:35 +0800 <p>Well, according to people living in HK and Taiwan, the internet there is quite back to normal. Let the rumors begin. Could it be, Beijing is quite happy about the current situation, since they now have less "unwanted" content to worry about? It's hard to believe it takes the Internet guys so long to reroute all overseas traffic through other available links (which are available), just as it's hard to believe that all overseas traffic from China was going through some cables 25 kms off Taiwanese coast. The current situation is much worse than it was on 28th, 29th. p.s.: It took our IT guy here in Shanghai two phone calls to the ISP to get our VPN to our HQ in Germany back to full speed, plus reroute all our Internet traffic through it (no, we are just a small company)</p>