Internet weather

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

2 new national outages and no new cable incidents.

World latency index 101 (unchanged vs the previous day).

The main points

Country outages

• Iraq new Scheduled shutdown, reachable networks down 68%; started 03:20; ended 04:30, after 1.2 h
• Zimbabwe new Major outage, reachable networks down 51%; started 19:00; ended 21:10, after 2.2 h

Submarine cable incidents

No significant cable incidents in this period.

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

• Marsala latency index +12 to 100Week: −3
• Lampedusa latency index +9 to 105Week: +6
• Mumbai latency index +8 to 107Week: +7
• Jeddah latency index +5 to 98Week: +2
• Sharm el-Sheikh latency index +5 to 105Week: +5

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