You guys are using up all the internet!

[Colt45]

the tubes need more girth.

 

[AstroManLuca]

Originally posted by: Jeff7

Originally posted by: SlitheryDee
Why don't they just build more tubes?

The fools...they're still using big trucks.

What are you talking about? The internet isn't just a big truck you can just dump something on!

 

[AndroidVageta]

Originally posted by: wedi42
im goin 2 skp ltrs 2 sav bndwtdh

:laugh:

 

[Crow550]

We need to study internet books from 1995!

It's the only way to understand how to fix the internet now? I guess?

 

[The Boston Dangler]

more wisdom from faux news

 

[dr150]

It's the Japanese and their fast bandwidths that's hogging up all the internets! :disgust:

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: wedi42
im goin 2 skp ltrs 2 sav bndwtdh

every little bit helps

 

[judasmachine]

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt
I better start downloading all available porn now so that I have it all by 2012.

I can torrent it all to you. Yes I have it ALL.

 

[Newbian]

Originally posted by: judasmachine

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt
I better start downloading all available porn now so that I have it all by 2012.

I can torrent it all to you. Yes I have it ALL.

Where did you get my fapping video? :Q

 

[ggnl]

Originally posted by: Newbian

Originally posted by: judasmachine

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt
I better start downloading all available porn now so that I have it all by 2012.

I can torrent it all to you. Yes I have it ALL.

Where did you get my fapping video? :Q

there's a hobo with a camcorder under your bed.

 

[ViviTheMage]

haha, internet brownouts??

 

[IceBergSLiM]

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAAHHHAAHHAHA

 

[Newbian]

Originally posted by: ggnl

Originally posted by: Newbian

Originally posted by: judasmachine

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt
I better start downloading all available porn now so that I have it all by 2012.

I can torrent it all to you. Yes I have it ALL.

Where did you get my fapping video? :Q

there's a hobo with a camcorder under your bed.

That bastard...I guess he finally escaped.

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: The Boston Dangler
more wisdom from faux news

I don't get this. The source of the story is CLEARLY referenced on Fox's site, so even if poisoning the wells is your debate faux pas du jour, you STILL haven't even adddressed the source, much less the content.

The vast majority of content on Fox comes from news outlets and other papers. So unless you are addressing an editorial, slamming Fox for a news story they pass on is ridiculous.

http://technology.timesonline....web/article6169488.ece

Beware surfers: cyberspace is filling up

John Harlow

Internet users face regular ?brownouts? that will freeze their computers as capacity runs out in cyberspace, according to research to be published later this year.

Experts predict that consumer demand, already growing at 60 per cent a year, will start to exceed supply from as early as next year because of more people working online and the soaring popularity of bandwidth-hungry websites such as YouTube and services such as the BBC?s iPlayer.

It will initially lead to computers being disrupted and going offline for several minutes at a time. From 2012, however, PCs and laptops are likely to operate at a much reduced speed, rendering the internet an ?unreliable toy?.

When Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the British scientist, wrote the code that transformed a private computer network into the world wide web in 1989, the internet appeared to be a limitless resource. However, a report being compiled by Nemertes Research, a respected American think-tank, will warn that the web has reached a critical point and that even the recession has failed to stave off impending problems.

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?With more people working or looking for work from home, or using their PCs more for cheap entertainment, demand could double in 2009,? said Ted Ritter, a Nemertes analyst. ?At best, we see the [economic] slowdown delaying the fractures for maybe a year.?

In America, telecoms companies are spending £40 billion a year upgrading cables and supercomputers to increase capacity, while in Britain proposals to replace copper cabling across part of the network with fibreoptic wires would cost at least £5 billion.

Yet sites such as YouTube, the video-sharing service launched in 2005, which has exploded in popularity, can throw the most ambitious plans into disarray.

The amount of traffic generated each month by YouTube is now equivalent to the amount of traffic generated across the entire internet in all of 2000.

The extent of its popularity is indicated by the 100 million people who have logged on to the site to see the talent show contestant Susan Boyle in the past three weeks.

Another so-called ?net bomb? being studied by Nemertes is BBC iPlayer, which allows viewers to watch high-definition television on their computers. In February there were more than 35 million requests for shows and iPlayer now accounts for 5 per cent of all UK internet traffic.

Analysts express such traffic in exabytes ? a quintillion (or a million trillion) bytes or units of computer data. One exabyte is equivalent to 50,000 years? worth of DVD-quality data.

Monthly traffic across the internet is running at about eight exabytes. A recent study by the University of Minnesota estimated that traffic was growing by at least 60 per cent a year, although that did not take into account plans for greater internet access in China and India.

While the net itself will ultimately survive, Ritter said that waves of disruption would begin to emerge next year, when computers would jitter and freeze. This would be followed by ?brownouts? ? a combination of temporary freezing and computers being reduced to a slow speed.

Ritter?s report will warn that an unreliable internet is merely a toy. ?For business purposes, such as delivering medical records between hospitals in real time, it?s useless,? he said.

?Today people know how home computers slow down when the kids get back from school and start playing games, but by 2012 that traffic jam could last all day long.?

Engineers are already preparing for the worst. While some are planning a lightning-fast parallel network called ?the grid?, others are building ?caches?, private computer stations where popular entertainments are stored on local PCs rather than sent through the global backbone.

Telephone companies want to recoup escalating costs by increasing prices for ?net hogs? who use more than their share of capacity.

 

[Amused]

BTW, no one has addressed this, but I smell a concerted effort to impose metering and/or caps. I think this news release may just be a part of that.

OMG, have I started believing in conspiracy theories?

Now, why would I jump to this conclusion?

Because it's not the first time they've cried wolf:

http://www.nemertes.com/press_..._network_capacity_2010

That was in Nov 2007.

Note something here?

Like a preacher predicting the end of the world, they keep putting the date 2-3 years away.

 

[Aikouka]

Internet users face regular ?brownouts? that will freeze their computers as capacity runs out in cyberspace

This is the start of the article and I already don't care to read the rest. Believe it or not, my computer will not freeze if the Intarwebz is slow :roll:.

Originally posted by: RESmonkey
"experts"? LOL

I bet Spidey had something to do with this .

 

[PingSpike]

Wow...who wrote this crap?

 

[TruePaige]

Originally posted by: Aikouka

Internet users face regular ?brownouts? that will freeze their computers as capacity runs out in cyberspace

This is the start of the article and I already don't care to read the rest. Believe it or not, my computer will not freeze if the Intarwebz is slow :roll:.

Originally posted by: RESmonkey
"experts"? LOL

I bet Spidey had something to do with this .

:thumbsup::laugh:

People like that are just in the pockets of Big Broadband.

 

[nakedfrog]

You've got to be joking.

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: PingSpike
Wow...who wrote this crap?

These guys released the study:

http://www.nemertes.com/who_we_are/who_we_are

 

[James Bond]

Wow is this a joke?

Who's the genius that wrote this article? Obviously does not compute.

 

[frostedflakes]

Originally posted by: Amused
BTW, no one has addressed this, but I smell a concerted effort to impose metering and/or caps. I think this news release may just be a part of that.

OMG, have I started believing in conspiracy theories?

Now, why would I jump to this conclusion?

Because it's not the first time they've cried wolf:

http://www.nemertes.com/press_..._network_capacity_2010

That was in Nov 2007.

Note something here?

Like a preacher predicting the end of the world, they keep putting the date 2-3 years away.

People have been predicting this crap as long as the internet has been around. And of course it never happens because ISPs just increase capacity as usage goes up. Bob Metcalfe predicted doom and gloom back in 1995 and ended up eating his words (literally) when the predictions turned out to be bunk.

 

[Adul]

funny i seen reports contradicting that. now to find them

 

[spidey07]

The other good news is that optical technology is able to keep up with this growth.

 

[Exterous]

How would an internet brown out freeze a computer or cause it to operate at lower speeds? I must have missed the interenet based CPU throtteling setting in my BIOS