http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/90339
What do you think?
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Oh, I agree wholeheartedly. It could only be more suspicious if Comcast was the one saying it.
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So…even though it is completely and quite easily possible to say, hook up another router to your server when the first one is getting a bit overloaded, we’re gonna run out of bandwith here in 2010.
Right….
AT&T has no fucking conception of networking whatsoever, and even worse they make it seem like it’s more complicated than it really is.
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This is basically yet another attempt by the telcos to take advantage of a very specific group of people who are very, very ignorant of how the internet works: The politicians.
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TUBAL INTERNETS!!! HUZZAAHHHHH!111111ones
I don’t see how politicians, who were smart enough to say get into congress or become a senator or governor or something don’t understand what bandwith is.
I took a networking class where we had two professors, one who explained it technically, and then another who simplified it so a 10 year old could understand it. I think he said something along the lines of a router being like a UPS factory and the bandwith being employees, and that if we simply run out of enough employee space and productivity (bandwith itself), then they just build another factory to add to the total productivity. And he not only said, but he showed us the same thing could be applied when using two routers for one internet just to increase maximum bandwith. Hell, I’m pretty sure standard T1’s and T3 internet connections do this.
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You realize this doesn’t matter because we ran out of food 20 years ago and were buried in garbage shortly after the polar icecaps melted and flooded half of America, during the uncontrolled violence that killed half the population…
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That is SO untrue…there was too controlled violence. :mrgreen:
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I am calling bullshit on this. If AT&T dosn’t think they can handle bandwith I see no reason for me to use them. Now I’ll just have to convice my dad to drop em and go with some other company thats not AT&T or Comcast (both the leading providers in my area) and hook up with Vonage or get everyone on Skype and Sprint.
Or maybe thats just going overboard. Still calling Bullshit on it though.
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I just remerber that South Park made an episode poking fun at the idea that one day were going to run out of bandwith. Over Logging - Wikipedia
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I just remerber that South Park made an episode poking fun at the idea that one day were going to run out of bandwith.
Whaddya mean remember? It premiered ten days ago. It’s the second newest episode.
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Whaddya mean remember? It premiered ten days ago. It’s the second newest episode
What I mean is that I saw the episode, forgot about it unitl now when I was reading this thread.
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None of these things happen though because people do stuff to avoid them.
And as for the internet - another prospect is that in areas still with copper wire, the burden of all the traffic could cause them to just burn out.
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I guess I’ll play devils advocate on this one. How many people here actually know how the internet works? (Please note, I’m not claiming that I do, with my admittedly limited knowledge of advanced networking)
So…even though it is completely and quite easily possible to say, hook up another router to your server when the first one is getting a bit overloaded, we’re gonna run out of bandwith here in 2010.
Why would you think that simply adding another router would magically increase your bandwidth (Unless I’m reading something wrong here). You’d basically just be splitting the bandwidth you have access to in half between the two routers.
I’m not saying that what the article says is true, but I think people have a tendency to oversimplify things, when they really don’t understand what the problem is, and what possible solutions involve.
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You’d basically just be splitting the bandwidth
Bandwith is the speed of data transfer in networking (not the bandwith referred to in website space). Essentially, if you have a router that gives out 1000 bits per second, and five people take up 200 bits per second, then you’ve run out of bandwith. Add another router, and this time they are taking 100 from EACH router. Effectively leaving behind 500 bits in each router.
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But domestically the limiting factor is your connection. You have a 1meg connection and with two routers, even if they can both handle more, you still won’t get more than 1 meg total.
Also - they won’t take 100 from each, because each computer will only connect to one for each task.
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Right, no one person will get more than 1 meg. But there will be more 1 meg’s to give out to everybody if more routers are connected.
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Not on one 1 meg connection they wouldn’t. You’d have to add another connection as it were.