A rare global interruption in the Starlink satellite Internet network knocked subscribers offline for more than two hours on Thursday, the longest widespread outage since SpaceX opened the service to consumers nearly five years ago.

Satellite internet is the most vulnerable to internet outages caused by weather, we're looking at you Starlink, Hughesnet, and Viasat, but a power outage can knock any connection type offline.

Openreach said up to 10,000 customers in the Faroe, Shetland, and Orkney islands are facing disruption today following damage to a subsea cable from Orkney to Banff