Internet is Not Technically “Down” Lah..
Posted by Jonathan Ng | Filed under Personal
A lot of people misuse the term “down”. They always say things like “MSN is down”. On another hand, some people say “cannot login to MSN”, which is technically correct.
You see, it’s highly unlikely that the Internet goes “down”. The Internet is a complex link of computers with numerous routes to get from A to B. But of course, some of these routes are fast (eg: the Taiwan link affected: Asia Pacific Cable Network), some are slower. So when one of these routes go down, as in unusable, Internet traffic use other routes.
When you cant login to MSN, or any other websites, what’s actually happening is that so many users are trying to access it, a “traffic jam” occurs. Yeah, you could say that “traffic jams” happen, but you cant say that the “road is down”.
