| CRUNCH DATA Eventually all ISPs are going to come to a crunch or limit. That's to be expected. The issue id what technologies are going to be implemented to control the number of users on a network and and to balance the network for everyone to use without it being degraded. |
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| Why is that (to be) expected - what is the limit? |
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| I am sitting on my balcony in Johannesburg, South Africa, enjoying a beer, looking forward to a long weekend and using for the first time since I moved down here for a project in June 2006 internet from home. I bought some 3G network card today and went fairly straight to dslreports. The home page took ages to load. I cannot be asked to try and run the speed reports. Bandwidth is fairly costly too (good point, let me disconnect).
Yet the lack of speed made me read the news entry on the front page while I waited for the navigation to load. Bandwidth apocalypse sounded catchy. So I click and wait and read on and understand nothing. What are they talking about? I study the headline, follow a few painfully slow links and still understand nothing.
What is the context of this debate? Is there a technical|logical|temporary|potential|... limit to bandwidth? What is the political aspect?
If anyone can be bothered to answer these questions briefly I would really like to read it.
hc@bandweite.de (a bit more spam won't hurt)
Thanks. (Now let me reconnect... and copy this to the clipboard first M^A M^C) |
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| I suggest hitting the article link on top...wait for that to load...while you do that you can read the article text. After you complete the read, you will understand the topic better and be able to read our posts and understand what they mean. |
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| Are you referring to the article starting with "Predictions of the Internet's imminent demise have been around almost as long as public interest in the net itself." Hmm, don't know whether it is worth the 40sec wait. Sounds almost wrong.
But I liked the brief style. Thanks,
hc@bandweite.de |
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