What has my fibre optic internet (transmits using light frequency) have to do with electricity ? Hydro good out miles/kms away – not affecting our household, yet my internet goes out, why?
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>What has my fibre optic internet (transmits using light frequency) have to do with electricity ? Hydro good out miles/kms away – not affecting our household, yet my internet goes out, why?
You do not have a direct fibre optic cable connection to… likely *anywhere*.
Before your ELI5-question arrived on whatever reddit server it resides on now it had to traverse many – possibly dozens of – relays and distribution nodes.
And if any stops on your connection’s way to the rest of the world fail without alternative routing paths… well, then you connection to the rest of the world fails.
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