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Experts Warn Internet Is Running Out of Bandwidth
Posted: May 1st, 2009, 7:00
by News Reader
Experts Warn Internet Is Running Out of Bandwidth
Uh oh, the experts are all saying we will run out of bandwidth by the end of t…
Experts predict that consumer demand, already growing at 60 percent a year, will start to exceed supply as early as 2010 because of more people working online and the soaring popularity of bandwidth-hungry Web sites such as YouTube and services such as the BBC's iPlayer.
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Publish Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:04:00 CDT
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Posted: May 1st, 2009, 7:09
by buzzmong
Pfft, scaremongering.
The internet is software running on hardware, that hardware is constantly being upgraded and replaced. The internet will only run out of bandwidth when its replacement comes along and people stop investing.
Posted: May 1st, 2009, 7:50
by Mr. Johnson
3D INTERNET!
Posted: May 1st, 2009, 9:11
by spoodie
This is what's happening to
your Internets:
Posted: May 1st, 2009, 9:13
by Dog Pants
I'd be more concerned about running out of IP addresses. Besides, as far as I'm concerned the British infrastructure is already failing to rise to the next generation of internet gubbinry. BT: Sticking their head in the sand* since 1980.
*Or up their arse
Posted: May 1st, 2009, 9:28
by buzzmong
Dog Pants wrote:I'd be more concerned about running out of IP addresses. Besides, as far as I'm concerned the British infrastructure is already failing to rise to the next generation of internet gubbinry. BT: Sticking their head in the sand* since 1980.
*Or up their arse
More accurately: BT, Using corporate management to the full extent to live by the motto "We don't have to do anything yet, wait a bit longer" since they were privatised and lost the government money to spend on fun things.
Posted: May 1st, 2009, 9:29
by FatherJack
BT are thinking about switching to fibre to the home. You know fibre - the thing Telewest/NTL/Virgin have been using for ten years, the 90s technology now superceded by gigabit.
Go BT!
Posted: May 1st, 2009, 9:40
by ProfHawking
i still cant believe BT's whole "21C" thing is just playing catch up to LLU services like Easynet and Be. THAT IS NOT A SOLUTION, it was a stopgap.
I dont know why they didnt just skip that step seeing as it is already out of date, and go straight to fibre-to-the-home (which NTL doesnt do, despite its advertising bollocks. Get your NTL cable, uncrew it. Look at the pretty lights! no wait, thats copper. I admit though, that their coax is better than ancient phone line)
FTTH is expensive yes, but at least it is reasonably future proof, at least for now. Its just a case of enough demand, and people willing to pay for it.
Unfortunately, i dont think there are enough rich geeks out there in the grand scheme of things.
Posted: May 1st, 2009, 13:05
by Baliame
Fox News again? When the fuck will [H] stop putting all their crap on their site?
Posted: May 1st, 2009, 14:08
by deject
Baliame wrote:Fox News again? When the fuck will [H] stop putting all their crap on their site?
hahahah this is a joke right?
[H] has some good PC hardware content, but they're pretty fucking retarded with everything else.
Posted: May 1st, 2009, 15:18
by mrbobbins
Baliame wrote:Fox News again?
