Internet weather

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

No new national outages and 1 new cable incident.

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

The main points

No national outages in this period.

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
Kanawa new latency up to 2.1× normal; started 21:02; ended 23:32, after 2.5 h

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.

Region	Index	Day	Week	Routes
World	102	0	+1	6 275
Europe	103	+1	+4	1 794
Transatlantic	106	0	+3	143
Asia-Pacific	100	−1	−2	3 787
Middle East	104	0	0	430
Africa	103	0	−1	1 283
Americas	102	−1	0	679

No chokepoint moved by more than 2 points.