The iNtErNeTS running out and i will tell u y!

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The problem is video and voice streaming....THATS whats usin up all the bandwidth...whoevers payin for it!

The silly part is....its not necessary and the internet infrastructure can't handle it.........yet. We have a perfectly good cellular system in place, as well as the normal landline. VOIP is a major mistake. We also have perfectly good staellite and cable television...there is no NEED for YouTube.

No matter how you slice it, we are in a recesssion/depression, and we only have so much bandwidth available.....Various companies are rolling out fiber as fast as they can, until they are finished, using what bandwidth we have now for VOIP and sites like YouTube is just stupid. It took AT&T YEARS to cover the U.S. with copper, fortunately fiber is being done much faster. But until it approcahes the quantity of the copper that already exists we will continue to have bandwidth problems. P2P is not a bandwidth hog like video and voice streaming, not even close. Sure it amy account for a large percentage of internet usage, but one YouTube video uses much more bandwidth than downloaded a program or game via P2P.

I think the problem is that people need to understand that there are different kinds of data. and realize that the two largest bandwidth types of data are video and voice. Its the same as on your personal computer.....numbers then text then programs then voice then video (in order of sheer size). Sure Google uses a ton of bandwidth, but as mentioned, mostly for their search engine. 10,000 Google searches doesnt come close to the amount of bandwidth a streaming video uses

What we need to do, until the infrastructure can handle it is simply not stream video and voice; at least not over the internet. We have noone to blame but ourselves for this. We already HAVE perfectly acceptable means to stream video and voice over OTHER infrastructures. Sure I'd like it to be 20 years from now, but it isn't...its 2008 and in 2008 the internet can't handle video and voice streaming. It WILL be able to.....but until that day comes...trying to force the internet to swallow millions of f*cking useless videos it just silly. While VOIP isn't useless, it still is too large of a bandwidth hog for 2008.

Comment if you wish, but I believe nothing further is to be said on this topic as I have covered eveything. Please do not pick apart my post criticizing statements just becase you don't agree. I can confirm everything here is TRUE.

 

The European Commission on Thursday called for more efforts to expand the Internet's real estate because the current one is running out of space.

The EC said in a statement that business and government leaders in Europe must work harder to shift the Internet infrastructure to run on Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) from the current IPv4 to make room for the flood of wireless devices crowding the Net.

Every device that accesses the Internet -- such as a PC, a personal digital assistant or a cell phone -- needs an IP address. Switching to IPv6 would help meet the growing demand for IP addresses, as the technology allows for more than does the current system.

"Without the 'IPv6 upgrade,' the Internet will inevitably degrade under the mounting pressure of new users and growing traffic while new innovations critical to European competitiveness will be stifled," the EC said in its statement.

The goal is not a new direction for the EC, which has pushed the IPv6 technology for some time and believes the increasing use of mobile Internet devices will only worsen the existing problem.

Europe is "12 to 18 months ahead of the US when it comes to cell phones and the use of cell phones for e-commerce," said analyst Stan Schatt, of Giga Information Group. But "Europe didn't get as many IP addresses as the United States," he added.

The EC says 74 percent of IPv4 addresses belong to North American organisations, with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford each owning more addresses than the Peoples' Republic of China.

Schatt says the need for Internet addresses will explode as wireless technology permeates everyday living and requires devices like vending machines and home appliances to use the Internet.

But the migration to IPv6 will take time and will not be just a matter of turning one technology off and another on.

Muayyad Al-Chalabi, an analyst at RHK, says manufacturers must equip every device to run on the new standard. Telecom networks will also need to run both IPv4 and IPv6 during the transition, much like the wireless networks that handle both analog and digital signals today.

"The technology has to be in a dual mode for a long time," Al-Chalabi said.

The EC says the current reserve of addresses is expected to run out in 2005.

 

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and you do know american and canadian telecommunication infrastructure is shit...

 

Good thing it's 2009. I think this is copy pasta.

 

OLD. This is very old.

 

Locked for stupidity.