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Originally Posted by Zuuljin  So in the magical land of Europe they have servers capable of handling unlimited traffic for an unlimited number of people? Or perhaps there just are not as many people using whatever service is offered in Europe therefore they can keep the caps off longer?
Think of it like traffic roads. You take your local freeway, which everyone is on, and it fucking drags. Or you find this backroad (different internet company) where you can go as fast as you want! Awesome! But soon everyone starts hearing about this magical road of unlimited speed and they drive over there, and suddenly your super fast road is clogged up just like the old shitty freeway.
Usage will keep increasing and increasing. I think it just about doubles, or more every year. Europe may be fine now, and maybe for the next 2 or 3 years, but soon they will be clogged just like everyone else. |
The presumption is that is will double in 8 months or so. It is generally thought of as either Moore's times two or close enough to not worry about the fiddly bits. We have and are continually making pipes big enough to not only handle present loads but to dwarf them. It is scary as a source simply because what cost 100M$US even a decade ago to lay is now literally 30M$US and that is with worse install costs. Data moving and storing is cheap now. It really is. Handling it remains expensive and I both blame and love Cisco and others for that.
It is also really just not a big damned deal. Infrastructure is still presently outstripping demand or so closely tied as to be considered 'good'.
