Internet access was at least partly restored, Wednesday, February 2, Egypt, after more than five days off, noted journalists from Agence France-Presse (). Information corroborated by measurements of traffic of the World. fr, which show that Egyptians Customers connect to the site via Internet Service Providers (ISPs) previously blocked.
In Cairo, the journalists have been able, on Wednesday morning, use a server Egypt. Citizens have also contacted said they managed to navigate the Web. Other Internet users also report on social networks like Twitter, that access to 3G networks are available again. It was not possible at present to contact the ISP to verify that the entire network was restored throughout the country, which has 80 million inhabitants, 23 million users of the Web.
The authorities had cut off Internet access during the night of Thursday 27 to Friday, January 28, the eve of demonstrations across the country against President Mubarak. It was the first cut Internet "authoritarian" on a scale as large, had said experts, adding that the previous access failures, Burma in 2007 and Iran in 2009 when popular protests, had was only temporary and highly targeted.
Very gradual recovery While virtually all ISPs seem to have taken an activity, the volume of connections observed by Tech News Buzz. en remained very low compared to what they were before the interruption. It will likely take several hours or several days before Egypt finds full access to the network.
The authorities on Friday ordered a double lock, one of the DNS (Domain Name Server) that allows computers to navigate the Internet, and BGP (Border Gateway Protocol, which allows sites to indicate where they are located on the network). Comments Stat. shavings. show a net recovery of BGP: The recovery should be even more progressive with regard to access to sites hosted in Egypt.
The exact time is difficult to calculate: the cuts announced by Egypt is indeed a case for the unique moment in Internet history. The site of the Cairo Stock Exchange, inaccessible yesterday after breaking the Noor - the only ISP that had escaped the block - is back online, but, ironically, the Ministry of Communications and information is still inaccessible. 
In Cairo, the journalists have been able, on Wednesday morning, use a server Egypt. Citizens have also contacted said they managed to navigate the Web. Other Internet users also report on social networks like Twitter, that access to 3G networks are available again. It was not possible at present to contact the ISP to verify that the entire network was restored throughout the country, which has 80 million inhabitants, 23 million users of the Web.
The authorities had cut off Internet access during the night of Thursday 27 to Friday, January 28, the eve of demonstrations across the country against President Mubarak. It was the first cut Internet "authoritarian" on a scale as large, had said experts, adding that the previous access failures, Burma in 2007 and Iran in 2009 when popular protests, had was only temporary and highly targeted.
Very gradual recovery While virtually all ISPs seem to have taken an activity, the volume of connections observed by Tech News Buzz. en remained very low compared to what they were before the interruption. It will likely take several hours or several days before Egypt finds full access to the network.
The authorities on Friday ordered a double lock, one of the DNS (Domain Name Server) that allows computers to navigate the Internet, and BGP (Border Gateway Protocol, which allows sites to indicate where they are located on the network). Comments Stat. shavings. show a net recovery of BGP: The recovery should be even more progressive with regard to access to sites hosted in Egypt.
The exact time is difficult to calculate: the cuts announced by Egypt is indeed a case for the unique moment in Internet history. The site of the Cairo Stock Exchange, inaccessible yesterday after breaking the Noor - the only ISP that had escaped the block - is back online, but, ironically, the Ministry of Communications and information is still inaccessible.
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