http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/business-3/1187860624160480.xml&coll=2 Vandals cut Internet line in Cleveland, causing online delays Thieves seeking copper suspected in online glitch Thursday, August 23, 2007 Shaheen Samavati Plain Dealer Reporter Notice your Internet connection acting up earlier this week? You weren't alone. Cleveland vandals - possibly copper thieves - probably caused delays for millions of Internet users around the world on Sunday night and much of Monday. Near Euclid Avenue and East 65th Street, someone apparently used a chain saw Sunday afternoon to cut through a high-capacity Internet trunk line, part of the backbone of the Internet. Although the thieves may have been seeking copper, there is no copper in fiber-optic cable. When workers went to fix the underground cables, they found that the coil of replacement cable they brought from a warehouse had been damaged by a gunshot, making it unusable. The setback meant things weren't brought back up to speed until Monday afternoon. The damaged trunk line is owned by Adesta LLC of Nebraska but is leased by several Internet wholesalers, including Cogent Communications, Level 3 and TeliaSonera. ..... [I've lost track; who is Adesta? Or rather... WHo did they buy out who'd installed the fiber?] -- A host is a host from coast to coast.................wb8foz@nrk.com & no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433