Faster, Network! Kill! Kill! The networking landscape has altered, and altered considerably since the 1970s, a decade that saw both the introduction of shoulder pads and the beginnings of the Ethernet network. In the thirty or so years since, fashion has, thankfully, moved on and so, too, has networking, which is what concerns us here. In particular what’s …
I know how to protect it. Make sure most of your customers are stuck at the end of a ratty old 20th century local loop. Sad, then, that usage allowances and peak time congestion are still a problem. Perhaps before we lay more fibre in the ground and install more switches we should get the govt. to drop the VED on lit fibre.
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The biggest issue with the Internet today is not a lack of bandwidth; it is too much unnecessary crap typically generated by the users themselves. Poorly programmed software that needs to send the same information repeatedly to work adds to that load. MS is a huge offender here with their WAN unfriendly software. Undisciplined users who send out links to 14MB videos on YouTube to their entire mailing list, Facebook games, Tweets telling the globe they are going to the loo, etc. Blah...
Just eliminating LOL's, OMG's, ROTF's and smiley faces would clear up a good chunk of available throughput. Sure, you would tick off quite a few teenage girls, but progress has its price.
And here we are in the new age of cloud computing where people will demand more bandwidth to accommodate that.
Sturgeons Law applies here, but here is another: Users will consume whatever bandwidth you give them and moan that it is not fast enough. This has been true since the days of the 300 baud modem and will continue to be so.
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