Anyone still follow that space weather news guy on jewtube? I wrote him off as a cia shill, but he might blame the sun for this shit, and I might just think he's on to something?
Starlink still relies on ground stations. The in-orbit laser links aren't up yet, so Starlink still relies on the ground based backbone. Once the in-orbit links are up, starlink users will be able to hit each other's IPs even when all the ground based backbones are down.
Proves to me it's a satellite problem. Someone is pulling some kind of shit.
Um, Starlink has 90 user reports of problems. AT&T has 75,000 user reports of problems. That's not the same scale here. They also don't use the same satellites and not all cellular communication uses satellites anyway. DownDetector is selff-reported data not actual network analysis. It's not a very accurate indicator of anything.
The carriers still use satellites. I have a hard time believing someone knocked down enough cell towers to cause that level of outage. But then again maybe they did. Of course, the carriers and the government will lie about what caused it, especially if China or someone else did it for the lulz.
The carriers still use satellites. I have a hard time believing someone knocked down enough cell towers to cause that level of outage. But then again maybe they did. Of course, the carriers and the government will lie about what caused it, especially if China or someone else did it for the lulz.
Yes they do still use satellites, but that's for longer haul communication not local communication. It's unlikely that a cell phone call from a caller in Cincinnati to another cell phone in Cincinnati would ever hop onto a satellite. Local communications is being affected so I think we can rule out satellites being involved here.
You don't need to physically knock down towers to get this sort of outage. I'm quite certain this was a network configuration change that caused the outage since it affects local and remote services. Some pajeet or DEI shitskin made a mistake and the network traffic is all fucked up now. That effectively is worse than knocking down towers and it could have been for the lulz as well since there is a cyberattack that has taken down Change Healthcare and Optum causing disruption in the healthcare and insurance industries. I think that one isn't for the lulz though. That one seems like (((bad actors))) who work in cubicles, but I don't have any proof of that.
I think you may be surprised by the amount of cellular traffic that traverses terrestrial links.
Starlink problems: 90 reports AT&T: 75,000 reports
I don't think I would put those two events on the same scale here. As a frequent user of DownDetector and other service monitoring tools, the graphs don't tell the story properly and there is always a bunch of services that have more reports than 90 at any given time. Also, DD uses mostly "self-reporting" in which users report they have problems with a service. Those problems could be for any reason and not be connected to other user problems at all. You have to take DD as a general indicator of problems and not a finely tuned instrument of failure indication.
As for AT&T, 75K reports is kind of low for a nationwide cellular provider. I'd expect more reports for the amount of news this is making. Seems overhyped compared to other outages that were bigger and got a lot less coverage. That makes me suspicious. It's getting news coverage but the massive Optum healthcare/insurance cyberattack that happened in the last 24 hours is getting crickets. Optum affects a lot of people including prescription filling and insurance claim payments/authorizations. That's a much bigger issue than 75K people who can't get on TikTok.
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