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"Exaflood" Disaster Appears Unlikely

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "By now, we've all heard of the 'coming exaflood' that will drown the ISPs in data and smite the wicked P2P users. Fortunately, the 'exaflood' is unlikely to be a disaster. Internet traffic growth is falling year-over-year, and there's plenty of core bandwidth — now handling about an exabyte a month in fact — but the last mile is still slow. So there's a reason that Comcast & co. are worried about losing to P2P, but the Internet itself isn't likely to suffer a meltdown any time soon. And there's plenty of data to counter anyone who says otherwise."

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  1. Twofo Goatse by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Eat my goatse'd penis![goatse.ch]

    You nerds love it.

  2. Re:Exafloods? by martin_henry · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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  3. Re:Exafloods? by smittyoneeach · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Works more gooder with a

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    Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
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  5. Re:elop88u9 0 0 u jkkl jj ;iue[= u[ U{ {U U rw8 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hello moderator, you are a gay homosexual.

  6. Re:It's the last mile which is holding it back by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Because this video thing IS NOT what Internet was supposed to be. Any real geek HATES TV, HATES CABLE, HATES ANY SORT OF VIDEO!
    Besides pr0n, I won't watch any other sort of video, neither over Internet, nor TV (I don't have any TVs, besides my monitors. I gave my plasma, and 4 other TVs I had to a homeless shelter close by).
    I may, sometimes, watch a news flash video, but then I will run to the Internet and Google as many as sources I can get, so I can have an unbiased understanding built from different sources.
    Anyways, this video thing is for losers, and lamers. Video kids must die.