Internet weather

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

1 new national outage and 1 new cable incident.

World latency index 100 (+1 vs the previous day).

The main points

Country outages

• Iraq new Scheduled shutdown, reachable networks down 68%; started 03:30; ended 04:10, after 40 min

Submarine cable incidents

• Africa-1 new latency up to 2.6× normal; started 07:31; 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

• Haramous latency index +7 to 107Week: −2
• Tanjung Pakis latency index +5 to 99Week: +1
• Alexandria latency index −3 to 102Week: −4

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