quake shakes up the net

hi i come from INDONESIA, last day desember 26 all internet USER on indonesia panic coz all day cant access internet. yes earthquake damage internet optik cable on the sea taiwan. i using GPRS/WAP to try get in mylot, but ver slow sometimes never work. perhaps will online soon again.

I hadn't heard anything about this until I read your post. I don't guess I was home in time to hear any news tonight. I just went and looked on the news site through yahoo...wow! it was a big earthquake! It said it damaged phone lines to China, Japan and the US, but the US ones are mostly restored now. @ residents were killed and more than 40 injured. Up to a dozen cables that carry traffic between China, Japan, Korea, southeast Asia the US and Taiwan were damaged and could take 2-3 weeks to repair. Wow! Here is the article http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061228/ap_on_re_as/asia_quake Wow! Another news article from CNN news said that the quake has put Asia back to pre-internet days! Hope things return to normal quickly! Here's the link to that article http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/12/27/taiwan.quake.ap/index.html?eref=yahoo