AT&T: Internet to hit full capacity by 2010

[tony286]

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1035_22-6237715.html

[StuartD]

Yeah, we've been discussing it on another board for a couple days now...

I think it's another Y2K scenario. Not necessarily something to ignore, but that for the most part, 2010 will come and go and the average person will have no idea that there was ever any potential problem.

[Deputy Chief Command]

Originally Posted by StuartD

Yeah, we've been discussing it on another board for a couple days now...

I think it's another Y2K scenario. Not necessarily something to ignore, but that for the most part, 2010 will come and go and the average person will have no idea that there was ever any potential problem.

seems quite likely in a way . but problem is if too many people think that nothing will actually get done about it ..

and it will end up being a problem . .

[tony286]

I see it as a try to get rid of net neutrality.

[StuartD]

Originally Posted by Deputy Chief Command

seems quite likely in a way . but problem is if too many people think that nothing will actually get done about it ..

and it will end up being a problem . .

Well, like Y2K... it wouldn't be ignored for too long as the smart people would see the $$ in fixing it. Some people made very good money in fixing up the 00 issues.

[camgirlshide]

hit capacity if they didn't upgrade. I'm sure that would have already happened any number of times. Luckily for all of us the telecom companies constantly upgrade their networks.

[mikeyddddd]

Well, fuck!

That means there'll be nothing to do while we wait until the comet hits us in 2012.

[spanky part 2]

The internet will be changed very soon.

"THE internet could soon be made obsolete. The scientists who pioneered it have now built a lightning-fast replacement capable of downloading entire feature films within seconds.

At speeds about 10,000 times faster than a typical broadband connection, ?the grid? will be able to send the entire Rolling Stones back catalogue from Britain to Japan in less than two seconds."

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle3689881.ece

[brandonstills]

And without grocery shopping I won't have any food to eat in a week. What a stupid statement.

[tony286]

Originally Posted by spanky part 2

The internet will be changed very soon.

"THE internet could soon be made obsolete. The scientists who pioneered it have now built a lightning-fast replacement capable of downloading entire feature films within seconds.

At speeds about 10,000 times faster than a typical broadband connection, ?the grid? will be able to send the entire Rolling Stones back catalogue from Britain to Japan in less than two seconds."

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle3689881.ece

I dont see that happening soon. What will these speeds go across? If it aint whats there already you have to build a whole infrastructure.

[pocketkangaroo]

AT&T and other telcos got $206 billion dollars from the government to make sure this didn't happen. Maybe they should have to pay that back?

[spanky part 2]

Originally Posted by tony404

I dont see that happening soon. What will these speeds go across? If it aint whats there already you have to build a whole infrastructure.

I remember the same thing being said about dsl and cable. No way will we all be able to get it, now it is available almost everywhere.

"That network, in effect a parallel internet, is now built, using fibre optic cables that run from Cern to 11 centres in the United States, Canada, the Far East, Europe and around the world.

One terminates at the Rutherford Appleton laboratory at Harwell in Oxfordshire.

From each centre, further connections radiate out to a host of other research institutions using existing high-speed academic networks."

[Barefootsies]

Ironic.

Considering during the Clinton years the telcos received millions of dollars to invest in the internet for rural areas, and to give us speeds they see in Japan. However, the telcos never invested IN that premise once they stomped out all their competition.

Now they have their greedy hands out again since re-assembling Ma Bell.

[tony286]

Originally Posted by Barefootsies

Ironic.

Considering during the Clinton years the telcos received millions of dollars to invest in the internet for rural areas, and to give us speeds they see in Japan. However, the telcos never invested IN that premise once they stomped out all their competition.

Now they have their greedy hands out again since re-assembling Ma Bell.

I didnt know that, thats funny.

[/ashtray]

It's a scare tactic to trump net neutrality.

I'm dissapointed ZDnet is giving AT&T this free publicity to campaign against Net Neutrality.

[crockett]

It's a bunch of bullshit.. AT&T is one of the biggest advocates for doing away with net neutrality. So now they are trying to use scare tactics to try to get their way.

If the Internet was gonna be out of BW in 2 years.. why the fuck did Road Runner just up my speed cap from 10mbps to 15mbps for FREE. AT&T is full of fucking shit. That's a 50% increase for free they just giving it away.


Not to mention that the 2nd Internet is already built. The "private for now" 2nd Internet already has 20 thousand servers online and will be 200 thousand in 2 years. It can send a full DVD worth of data in less than 1 min.

They built it to send data for that Large Hadron Collider and universities will be hooked up to it soon and I'm betting within 5 years normal people will be using it.

Again AT&T is fucking FULL of SHIT. Pisses me off people are even spreading the word for them by posting this article.

[AaronM]

Originally Posted by mikeyddddd

Well, fuck!

That means there'll be nothing to do while we wait until the comet hits us in 2012.

LOL...That rocks.

[TidalWave]

AT&T is always having problems with congestion because their network is shit. They have a lot of eyeball peers and connections to residential users but otherwise their network is ass.
They wont "run out of capacity", they simply add more fiber. What a bunch of crock.

Inexperienced people running that dump.

[sumphatpimp]

well ok, so the phone company is all out of capacity. so we will just go with the CABLE company, they have no trouble with capacity.

how many idiots from Microshit did the phone company hire? and put in key management jobs?

[viencarl]

great infos here thanks for sharing