susannad
06-21-2003, 11:22 PM
Anyone from Sweden ? Can you get back in yet ?
The breakdown of one of Swedish operator Telia's main Internet routers in Sweden's capital on Saturday unplugged more than a million of the country's internet subscribers for several hours.
In total over 340,000 broadband and 700,000 dial-up customers across Sweden were affected by the incident
This kind of news always gives me goose bumps. We only have one carrier in Australia.
FW-Mike
06-21-2003, 11:31 PM
OUCH! Sucks to be the network admins there
Artashes
06-21-2003, 11:55 PM
It was more like a couple of hours than several. :)
ken124578
06-22-2003, 06:32 AM
This thread has a touching title... "Sweden crashed" lol! :D
susannad
06-22-2003, 06:33 AM
Was it only a couple of hours ? It was said to be several when I saw it on the TV. Oh well, it's the way of TV news to paint the blackest (most newsworthy) picture I suppose
Pretty bloody irritating if we happened to be in Sweden though
akashik
06-22-2003, 08:12 AM
I feel sorry for the guys fixing that... talk about pressure to get a job done right, quickly.
Geuoj
06-22-2003, 08:33 AM
Where do you live susannad? Australia?
Because I live in Sweden, though I don't have Telia as my internet service provider, yet I still haven't heard a thing about this.
Feels weird if the Australians are more up to date on Swedish news than myself...
akashik
06-22-2003, 08:52 AM
Originally posted by Geuoj
Feels weird if the Australians are more up to date on Swedish news than myself...
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/06/22/1056220467364.html
9 hours ago
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_287151,00030010.htm
22 hours ago
reference: Google News
Seems India even beat the Aussies on this one :) Australian newspaper's don't write a lot of their own material but rather 'borrow' it from less known sources much of the time.
I'm from Sweden and I have Telia broadband. It was down for a couple of hours but it's up now again.
susannad
06-22-2003, 09:55 AM
well good, glad you're back online
chrisranjana
06-22-2003, 12:01 PM
Originally posted by akashik
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_287151,00030010.htm
22 hours ago
reference: Google News
Seems India even beat the Aussies on this one :)
Funny Though !.
Me being in India came to know of this news on an indian news website through a thread posted by an Australian on a message board hosted in America.
hmmm..I need to be more well informed. :)
akashik
06-22-2003, 12:27 PM
The internet's kind of neat with that whole international thing isn't it :D
Aussie Bob
06-22-2003, 12:55 PM
Sweden is a tax free country, yes? :D
