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Caution -- Heavy Internet traffic ahead. Delays possible
I have been noticing my internet connection getting slower and sloower and slooower over the past few months. Downloads still clock at about the same rate, but websites are sluggish. Perhaps it's all the ridiculous Web 2.0 JavaScript that takes forever, or perhaps I'm simply growing impatient. I stumbled upon this article here, which was released a little over a month ago:
[newsfactor.com...]
I'm not the alarmist type. I believe the internet will grow into something we're familiar with from popular futuristic movies. Have you ever watched a scene where someone makes a call and a holographic image of the other person appears? I think that will happen sooner or later, and the internet will become a virtual meeting room, from a simple one-on-one, to a World Cup game joined by billions, and everything in between. But there are causes for concern. Our infrastructure, which is still largely copper wire, may be buckling under the weight of all that data.
In a widely cited report published in November, a research firm projected that user demand for the Internet could outpace network capacity by 2011. The title of a debate scheduled next month at a technology conference in Boston sums up the angst: "The End of the Internet?"
Food for thought.
Downloads still clock at about the same rate, but websites are sluggish.
