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@stop I need to google what would really take to take down the whole city connection
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josh12382038yDepends on the city. My uni's town had one single trunk line connecting the whole town to the Internet. A misplaced back-hoe was all it took for the town to go without for a few days
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here's a hint DNS if you hit the cities providers main DNS servers the internet will be down for 99% of the town unless they have set their computer to use googles nameservers
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stop68678yHere in germany one provider said that they turnoff LTE and UMTS at night for energy saving.
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