Topic: Warnings of 'internet overload'

[Clive]

BBC Click investigates claims of the internet collapsing under pressure from the YouTube generation. 

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[Reno]

Sounds like whining to me. I pay $30 per month for my dsl. My old boss paid $50 a month for cable. Multiply that by a hundred million and you have more than enough cash to maintain and upgrade. Besides the telecommunications industry tends to lobby the government for money any time something big needs to be paid for. So the average person will be paying for it one way or another.

[sam]

i doubt it will be a problem.. Cisco sound confident!

[Simon]

"The real issue that people are going to face, and are already noticing at home, is that ISPs are starting to cut back on the bandwidth that is available to people in their homes," said Mr Thompson. "They call it bandwidth shaping."

"They do this because they have a limited capacity to deliver to 100 or 200 homes, and if everybody's using the internet at the same time then the whole thing starts to get congested. Before that happens they cut back on the heavy users."

This has been happening for the last couple of years, and I can see ISPs trying to restrict users more in the future, not so much because of 'internet overload', but as an excuse to maximise profits.