Internet weather

18 Aug 2026, 00:00-24:00 UTC

Quiet day: no new national outages and no new cable incidents.

World latency index 102 (unchanged vs the previous day).

The main points

Country outages

No national outages in this period.

Submarine cable incidents

• PEACE Cable ended latency up to 10.5× normal; started 17 Aug 14:02; ended 07:01, after 17.0 h
• Taiwan Strait Express-1 (TSE-1) continues latency up to 3.2× normal; started 25 Jul 02:01; still open
• Matrix Cable System continues latency up to 2.4× normal; started 15 Aug 08:01; still open

Latency index

100 = the usual latency of each route. Above 100 traffic is slower than usual. Change is against the previous day and the same day a week earlier.

Chokepoints that moved most

• Hachijo latency index −3 to 97Week: +2

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