Is The Internet Facing Gridlock?

[sophia8]

The Internet may be almost full up (http://www.sundayherald.com/display.var.1250955.0.0.php?utag=25215)
True or false?

[Vitnir]

If people want it badly enough that they pay for it then there is no problem.
What I dont get is how YouTube makes any money to pay for the bills, but then I dont get how some airlines can pay their bills when they charge 1 euro for tickets either.

[Wudang]

You might to check the ICANN debates on Class of Service.

[Solus]

The Internet may be almost full up (http://www.sundayherald.com/display.var.1250955.0.0.php?utag=25215)
True or false?

I wish there was a mandatory IQ test or at least a basic spelling and grammar test that had to be passed in order to use the internet. I think if that law went into effect, it would take of this problem for years to come. :p

No better, just get rid of anyone who uses internet explorer...

[Gord_in_Toronto]

. . .

No better, just get rid of anyone who uses internet explorer...

And Windows.

[RayG]

False.

Full up? Of what, number of users? IP addresses? Hardly. The technology already exists to allow for 5×1028 addresses for each of the roughly 6.5 billion people alive today (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6).

Bandwidth bottlenecks? With increased bandwidth demands/concerns comes increased technology, and progressive methods to transfer larger amounts of bandwidth. How many people surf the net today with a 2400 baud modem on a pre-pentium 386 computer?

RayG

[Ducky]

False.

Full up? Of what, number of users? IP addresses? Hardly. The technology already exists to allow for 5×1028 addresses for each of the roughly 6.5 billion people alive today (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6).

Bandwidth bottlenecks? With increased bandwidth demands/concerns comes increased technology, and progressive methods to transfer larger amounts of bandwidth. How many people surf the net today with a 2400 baud modem on a pre-pentium 386 computer?

RayG

Sometimes, just for fun, I pull out my old Apple ]|[ and dial up with a 2400 baud modem just to play a mudd.

[Beady]

I wish there was a mandatory IQ test or at least a basic spelling and grammar test that had to be passed in order to use the internet. I think if that law went into effect, it would take of this problem for years to come.

I dunno... :busted

[strathmeyer]

False!

http://www.speedtest.net/result/99014139.png

[Grimoire]

The following pretty much sums up the article.
Over a third of all web traffic in 2007 is expected to be peer-to-peer video
If it is peer to peer, it isn't the web. The web != the Internet.

Will some people's connection suffer because their ISP didn't upgrade their backbones? Possibly. Will the entire Internet "gridlock"? No. The Internet isn't a highway, regardless of the number of times the media says it is...