Are bandwidth costs ever going to come down? What about the "Internet Implosion"?

[BrunoPuntzJones]

Haven't really heard anything about that collapsing Internet idea lately and wondered where it went. Curious because ZDnet closed down their FTP today 🙁

There's going to have to be a big ass reduction in bandwidth costs; is it ever going to happen? With tons of sites kicking the bucket, and some moving to subscriptions, it's kind of concerning. Either that or a total revamp of how things work. Having to pay to visit sites just isn't going to cut it.

With the gov pushing broadband in a huge way, and more people getting it, things are only going to get worse.

Just wondering what was on the horizon. I know the big guys have to pay for the lines, but it's killing all the good stuff on the Internet (although alot of that is due to poor management of funds). Great sites are being shut down because they just can't handle the hits. When a site shuts down, folks have less places to go, resulting in more traffic on other sites, increasing costs. Don't see how it can get any better.

Any solutions out there?

 

[RSMemphis]

Storage is cheap, bandwidth is expensive.
In the future, it would be better for ISPs and everyone else if ISPs had big proxy servers, that store webpages as well files.
Especially downloadable files rarely change. When the proxy server has a request for a file, it checks with the destination if there is a newer one, and if not, takes it directly from memory.

Make it dynamic, so only the most requested ones are held locally.

It would be possible, but apparently it's not worth it.

 

[BrunoPuntzJones]

There is an Internet provider here that does just that, apparently supposed to be faster too. Too bad it didn't work worth a damn. Don't even think they are in business anymore. They blocked pr0n sites (in the Biblebelt). Apparently not enough subscribers suprisingly.

 

[BrunoPuntzJones]

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