When submarine cables fail, will roblox.com still work?

Will not work

Domestic direct connections (O)
3

Domestic cloud services (?)
4

Foreign connections (X)
7

When submarine cables fail, can roblox.com still load normally?

Based on the latest test, under a submarine-cable outage scenario roblox.com may “not work.” If international connectivity is cut or blocked, the site may fail to load.

Why might roblox.com “not work” when submarine cables fail?

During testing, when the homepage loaded we found that some content or resources had to be fetched from outside the country. Those resources usually load fine, but when cables are cut or traffic is severely congested those connections can fail—and the site may break along with them.

Does this mean roblox.com will definitely be unavailable during severe cable congestion?

Not necessarily. This result is inferred from resource dependencies observed while loading the homepage. It reflects higher risk—not a guarantee that every page or every feature would fail completely.

How is resilience for roblox.com under cable outages assessed?

When opening the homepage of roblox.com, we observed 247 requests across 14 domains.
If any involve connections abroad, the outcome is classified as “Will not work.” If there are no foreign connections but there is reliance on in-country nodes of multinational cloud services, the outcome is “Uncertain.” If connections are only domestic aside from that international-cloud pattern, the outcome is “May work.”
For detailed rules and the full workflow, see the research methodology and overall report.

Site location

  • Foreign / OtherAS22697 Roblox128.116.54.3

Connection information

  • Domestic / CloudAS16509 Amazon.com, Inc.apis.rbxcdn.com
  • Domestic / CloudAS13335 Cloudflare, Inc.auth.roblox.com
  • Domestic / OtherAS3462 Data Communication Business Groupcss.rbxcdn.com
  • Domestic / OtherAS3462 Data Communication Business Groupjs.rbxcdn.com
  • Domestic / OtherAS3462 Data Communication Business Groupimages.rbxcdn.com
  • Foreign / CloudAS54113 Fastly, Inc.client.px-cloud.net
  • Domestic / CloudAS396982 Google LLCo293668.ingest.us.sentry.io
  • Foreign / CloudAS396982 Google LLCift.px-cloud.net
  • Domestic / CloudAS396982 Google LLCcollector-pxbf8propw.px-cloud.net
  • Foreign / OtherAS22697 Robloxwww.roblox.com
  • Foreign / OtherAS22697 Robloxapis.roblox.com
  • Foreign / OtherAS22697 Robloxlocale.roblox.com
  • Foreign / OtherAS22697 Robloxrealtime.roblox.com

Test environment

  • IP: 220.132.212.194
  • City: Banqiao
  • Region: Taipei
  • Country: TW
  • Organization: AS3462 Data Communication Business Group
  • DNS server: 168.95.1.1

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}

Last tested: 7/21/2026, 3:27:23 AM (HTTP 200)