The internetz, are leik, outdated

[Atomic_Piggy]

http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB119128309597345795.html?mod=blog

 

[Baal]

Blog posted ITT

 

[Mr-Fusion]

Len Bosack.

"The Internet wasn't designed for people to watch television," he says. "I know because I designed it."

 

[Sloth]

Would be sad to see the interweb just collapse under its own size but it seems that is what we're coming ot.

 

[Azner]

Then what did Tim Berners Lee do?

Didnt he creat the internet+design.

 

[Cheomesh]

Would be sad to see the interweb just collapse under its own size but it seems that is what we're coming ot.

We'll be fine.

 

[Laivasse]

"The public needs something better than what's currently available."

Truth.

I swear in most cases we wouldn't be having the problems we are having if greedy, slimebag, piece-of-shit provider companies didn't oversell their bandwidth by like 300% (random figure).

I'm with Tiscali here in the UK (god help me, but I'll be out soon). They sell their service as 'unlimited' despite having a 'Fair Use Policy' which says that you can't really use the net for anything other than email or maybe gaming during peak hours. At one point recently their service was just completely collapsing - abysmal speeds, TCP/IP traffic being throttled without warning, connections completely failing - and we were told in a conciliatory tone by a service guy on their forums that, basically, 'we have more customers than we can handle'. What did I see on the TV at exactly the same time? A slew of Tiscali ads. It's like having a grocery store where you sell a bottle of milk to someone, then snatch it away when they've had only a sip, shouting 'You've had enough for today!! Let someone else have some milk, there's only so much to go around...', then just sell it on.

I also remember reading about people trying to make consumer complaints about the standard of their broadband with Tiscali. They claimed that the 12 month contract they were held under should be considered null and void, since Tiscali had breached their part by failing to provide the BB the customers had paid for. However it turns out that Tiscali wouldn't have been considered under law to have breached their 'provision of broadband' part of the contract unless the speeds consistently stayed below a tenth of those advertised.

It's all partly a symptom of the passive keep-quiet-and-take-it-up-the-bum consumer attitudes that everyone has in the UK, but I'm sure the infrastructure behind the internet could do with updating too, because the public really does "need something better than what's available".