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Bufferbloat: Dark Buffers In the Internet
Expanding on earlier work from Jim Gettys of Bell Labs with a new article in the ACM Queue, CowboyRobot writes that Gettys "makes the case that the Internet is in danger of collapse due to 'bufferbloat,' 'the existence of excessively large and frequently full buffers inside the network.' Part of the blame is due to overbuffering; in an effort to protect ourselves we make things worse. But the problem runs deeper than that. Gettys' solution is AQM (active queue management) which is not deployed as widely as it should be. 'We are flying on an Internet airplane in which we are constantly swapping the wings, the engines, and the fuselage, with most of the cockpit instruments removed but only a few new instruments reinstalled. It crashed before; will it crash again?'"
...the inevitable fate of the tech world is for the inferior to be gradually, painfully, and kludgingly adapted to become the same thing as the technologies it displaced through lowballing.
In this case Gettys is acting as an apologist for the municipal and/or corporate resistance to augmenting American infrastructure to 21st century standards. Whenever you have an elite few pinching pennies at the expense of the many, then you know that the ZOG machine is behind it. Their propaganda will explain everything away using bureaucratic technobabble while the final solution* to the problem is painfully obvious to anybody.
* the final solution being to railroad more fiber directly into the processing facilities.
I'm also on the internet, but he's right. This pretty much sums up how I feel about the internet.