Comment on Iran’s internet blackout left people in the dark. How does a country shut down the internet?
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 16 hours agoI was wondering the same actually (I did label the cell tower thing a guess):
Wouldn’t hard shutting down the internet shut down mobile communications as well. Of course a soft shutdown would allow for filtering that out. I wonder which one Iran chose.
Still guessing btw.
shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 15 hours ago
Yes, a cell phone tower is basically a Wi-Fi router for a bunch of people because it has a connection to the internet via a fiber cable and then broadcasts that out over local airway spectrum. The exact same thing as your Wi-Fi does except for longer range and higher power and higher locations.