Report: broadband gridlock ‘like whoa’ by 2010
- November 20th, 2007
- 3 Comments
If y’all don’t stop downloading funny YouTube videos and consuming bandwidth, the Internet may experience gridlock the likes of which it’s never seen before. According to Nemertes Research (not Acme, then), Internet gridlock by 2010 could seriously slow down our surfing habits as broadband pipes are taxed, possibly leading to a return to dial-up. (No! Anything but that, please!) Such a scenario might also prevent the next Google or YouTube from getting off the ground, or so Nemertes says.
Essentially, we need to upgrade the world’s broadband infrastructure to the tune of $137 billion or we’re doomed. Oh good, nothing to worry about then.
Net gridlock by 2010 study warns [BBC News]
Skorch (Who am I?)
1 year ago
Time to hijack Intarweb 2 from those nerdlingers over in Academia. Why should they get all the ultrafast porn downloads all to themselves? We did it over 10 years ago, and we can do it again!
David Mackey (Who am I?)
1 year ago
Hmmm…I do think thats what the ISPs get paid for.
Just Mo (Who am I?)
1 year ago
“The internet is a serious of tubes” Maybe he IS on to something ;)
If you’re scratching your head and thinking huh?! - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_of_tubes