How are islands connected to the Internet?

[CrackaLackaZe]

Do they run a physical trunk line under the ocean to the backbone?

 

[hkarpf6045]

Yeah, or I think they might use microwave satellites. I am not really sure, this is a good quesiton. I know there is a transatlantic fiber cable that provides some of the "World WIde" internet.

 

[audi]

drugs and cocaine!

 

[KLin]

They load the internet on zip disks and ship it out to all the islands in the world.

 

[BlueWeasel]

Originally posted by: KLin
They load the internet on zip disks and ship it out to all the islands in the world.

*cleans beer off the screen*

Thanks! :laugh:

...but wouldn't Jaz disks be more efficient?

 

[neutralizer]

I think satellite.

 

[Kodiak]

Originally posted by: KLin
They load the internet on zip disks and ship it out to all the islands in the world.

 

[hkarpf6045]

COme on, lets get a real answer here. I am really interested.

 

[SVT Cobra]

Originally posted by: KLin
They load the internet on zip disks and ship it out to all the islands in the world.

and for updates they stick floppy disks on to carrier pigeons

edit: google is your friend

 

[Insomniak]

Voodoo.

 

[everman]

They place disks in coconuts. Then you need an african swallow to grasp the husk and fly it back and forth.

 

[Rogue]

Originally posted by: Son of a N00b

Originally posted by: KLin
They load the internet on zip disks and ship it out to all the islands in the world.

and for updates they stick floppy disks on to carrier pigeons

I thought it was USB drives, but I could be wrong.

 

[Krk3561]

They run cables through the ocean. How do you think they communicated between Europe and the US before we went into space?

 

[CrackaLackaZe]

Originally posted by: neutralizer
I think satellite.

I thought about that, but I didn't think satellites were reliable enough.

 

[Goosemaster]

fibre optica.....seriously


UUnet > *.*

 

[SVT Cobra]

Originally posted by: Rogue

Originally posted by: Son of a N00b

Originally posted by: KLin
They load the internet on zip disks and ship it out to all the islands in the world.

and for updates they stick floppy disks on to carrier pigeons

I thought it was USB drives, but I could be wrong.

thats only certain high tech islands...the old ones still have two cans connected to a really long string

 

[CrackaLackaZe]

So they do run truck lines under the ocean then

Edit: *trunk lines

 

[BlueWeasel]

Truck lines? huh?

[Nevermind....]

 

[JRock]

Originally posted by: BlueWeasel

Originally posted by: KLin
They load the internet on zip disks and ship it out to all the islands in the world.

*cleans beer off the screen*

Thanks! :laugh:

...but wouldn't Jaz disks be more efficient?

MMM BEEER! What you drinkin' bro?

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: CrackaLackaZe
So they do run truck lines under the ocean then

Edit: *trunk lines

Yes. It is faster than using Satellite connections as those have a lot of latency since they are so far away.

I guess they could use microwave but wouldn't that be expensive power-wise?

 

[phisrow]

Depends on the island, I think. The important ones, like Japan and the UK, obviously get fibre backbone. The small ones have either satellite or packet radio, methinks.

 

[rickn]

millions of miniature chinese peoples run back and forth with loads of data, sorta like an ant column

 

[BigDonJohnson]

Your wife/girlfriend/mom is a whore.

 

[Landroval]

undersea fiber optic

 

[Nebor]

Originally posted by: BigDonJohnson
Your wife/girlfriend/mom is a whore.

wtf? Inspired by the new sticky?