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- TotalCarb, on 10/19/2007, -0/+41If the internet was a roadway, there would be hookers at every mile marker.
- inactive, on 10/19/2007, -3/+31The internet is not a highway or a dump truck. It's a series of tubes.
- 11Heather, on 10/19/2007, -1/+20Fix or totally redesign & replace it based on powerlines and an alternative structure? Would love to have options that drive up competition, and down with ISP prices.
- andrewcsayer, on 10/19/2007, -5/+22Outsource it to India, bitches
- skimmas, on 10/19/2007, -2/+16our Internet? We'll, not mine. The article is about US internet. When will americans stop talking has if they were the only people surfing the web?
- bnajbert, on 10/15/2007, -2/+16When they stopping acting like the world revolves around the US.
- Livewired, on 10/19/2007, -6/+20I'm way opposed to the government fixing or redesigning anything to do with broadband. If we can keep this thing free from convoluted bureaucracy, companies would have a chance to catch up and do battle with each other to provide better service.
- avinds, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10google is an ISP
www.google.com/tisp/ - madroneDorf, on 10/19/2007, -2/+10"If the Internet were visible as a road system it would look excellent in some places, but riddled with potholes in others; heavily congested at many times and locations;"
That sounds exactly like our round system! - edwartica, on 10/19/2007, -1/+8Al gore called it an "information superhighway" and he should know, cause he invented it!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Couldn't you have added http:// so that i could just click the link?
- chaosmachine, on 10/19/2007, -1/+8isn't google supposed to become an isp soon, and give everyone 100mbit fiber?
- wildgift, on 10/13/2007, -0/+6The internet was a government project. So were high-speed lines. There's nothing to "redesign" because the dozen or so countries that have way faster broadband than we have, clearly possess the great new technology we want so we don't have to invent it. Pretty soon, we won't have to invent anything. Welcome to the future: America's free market system falling behind first world socialism... again, again, and again. Why? Because the most profitable thing to do is sell a whole lot of something that's just "good enough" for the largest profit margin possible.
- edwartica, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7yeah, so am I. I'm also waiting for Santa Claus and the Easter bunny to come bring me a basket full of Gold and a certificate from the IRS saying I never have to pay taxes again.
- davidbond, on 10/19/2007, -0/+6Take a look at BT's 21CN: http://www.btplc.com/21CN/Whatis21CN/index.htm . What is it? A "radical simplification." Here's a formula for Internet improvement: 1) Add bandwidth 2) Remove existing low-bandwidth kit. 3) Repeat.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10In communist russia, India outsources you.
- vuke69, on 10/19/2007, -2/+7"And one day, in the not-too-distant future, two people in a garage in the U.S. won't start the next great Internet company--because two people in a garage in South Korea or France or the U.K. will already have. "
Sad but true. - inactive, on 10/13/2007, -2/+7That is NOT GOING TO WORK. Anyone who's remotely aware of what's going on knows that the duopoly of The Phone Company and The Cable Company are not only ripping off customers, but attempting to hold the entire Internet hostage by throttling the bandwidth of any site that doesn't PAY UP. Why don't you read up on "Net neutrality" before weighing in?
- MerryMortician, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4yes it be.
- gibler, on 10/19/2007, -0/+4what a stupid analogy - it is comprised of tubes, not roads.. Anyway you haven't seen the roads where I live.
- RedHerringHack, on 10/13/2007, -0/+4And boner pill vending machines all over the place.
- Tezdoll, on 10/13/2007, -1/+4There already are...
- edwartica, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3You're so good at detecting sarcasm!
- 1carmen, on 10/19/2007, -2/+5I just took for granted that the net was growing and could handle huge downloads. Good eye-opening to what's really 'under the bonnet'.
- ricperry1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I agree. Let's let the market shape broadband internet usage and development. And by all means, keep the government away from it!
- leodavinci, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2He is saying "our" as in Americas Internet infrastructure. Stop reading into things that aren't there...
- subliminalurge, on 10/13/2007, -0/+2Here ya go....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sense_of_humor - herrdoktorc, on 10/19/2007, -0/+2"the infrastructure can't cope", but it seems that the comments are all about last-mile issues. yes, we could go and get governments to require fibre to the door but that's hardly going to fix the other issues
smacks of someone trying to tell folks they need government regulation in order to get people saying they need more government regulation.
as for the US losing out to the UK, i'm currently paying more for my DSL service in the UK than i did in the US, for a slower more-contended service. seems like pure scare tactics. - nullterm, on 10/19/2007, -1/+3We do need more competition among ISP's. A lot of the reason we don't have fiber to home like many of the countries that have faster connections is the land area. Japan for instance isn't all that big. So I can understand why it would be easier to run fiber everywhere there. Innovation happens through competition over time. And just as it has been happening steadily over many years. it'll continue to happen. There is no big crisis and nothing to be concerned about. Just let market factors work it out and there wont be too much of an issue.
- bromac, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2One Word:
FIBER! - MerryMortician, on 10/19/2007, -0/+2i like my internet like my chicken... free range. leave it the ***** alone. i know that doesn't really make sense.. but it felt good to say it.. and thats all that matters.
- kahrn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2That's exactly what I was thinking (I assume you mean road)
- gadgetuk, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3You have to remember there are many tiers to the "Internet". The ISP connections you're talking about (the local loop) have been gradually benefitting from technology advancement anyway - DSL is the current best method but who knows what is around the corner. Fiber to every home would be nice but there's too much copper around to make that likely in the short term. Beyond that connection though is a world of various infrastructures between your ISP, their carrier, the carriers exchange points with other carriers, international links etc...
The drive for improvement has to encompass all of these and, beleive me, there are lots of people doing exactly that. I don't see any need for a "scorched earth" replacement for the Internet, evolutionary steps are fine for now. Internet2 is only 1 generation ahead of the current infrastructure but it has the luxury of being able to use exclusively best-of-breed whereas, in the real world, compromises have to be made in some areas. - MtheoryX, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Soviet russian, even.
- prieurdp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@ TheLD - We down south in South Africe needs it a lot more than you :) I pay close on $80 a month for a 4 Mb line with a 3 GB cap.
- eurichunt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2There's nothing sad about that.
- SteveMax, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1In Brazil we pay R$100 (~US$55) for 4 Mb/600kb cable (with a never-enforced 40GB/month limit. Theoretically, if you transfer over that, you get cut down to 200kb/200kb). I see that this looks reasonable, compared to what you pay in some parts of the US. However, two years ago, the top speed you could get was 1.2Mb/600kb for around R$230 (~US$130), which was quite awful.
- rowlodge, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1its funny but i don't think that many consumers are as serious users as other countries, like making comments on digg as my evidence.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Like a lot of people. Yet if you use common sense, it stands to reason that a single medium can't handle every TV broadcast, phone call, radio transmission and movie rental in addition to all the legitimate data transmissions and goddamned spam. Look at your cable system: It's a dedicated wire, but even on there you can only have what, 400 channels that are compressed to *****? Along with, at best, 10 mbit Internet download?
The Internet, like everything else, is simply being abused because people CAN. It's grab GRAB GRAB-it-for-yourself-and-*****-everyone-else world, man! - TheLD, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The UK needs a next generation provider more than anyone else. I mean we pay £40/$80 for a 20 mbit connection (which only gets to 5 mbit at the best of times) and the traffic gets managed after 250MBs of usage. It makes no sense.
- Error601, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Hey, a false analogy and a ridiculous oversimplification.
- pmac, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Mbps down / 2 Mbps up / 1G of monthly traffic + Phone Line with free local calling = approx $50 US / month.
I pay for this in another currency so maybe apples and oranges.
I would hate to think how much of my monthly allowance would get used up by advertising if I didn't use Firefox with adblock and flashblock.
It's the double whammy: Ads chew yr data allowance AND waste yr time while you wait for the congested ad servers. Because the ad MUST load before the rest of page, right? *****.
That's what pisses me off about WWW. Oh, that, and having to make sure the pron and whatever else is out there doesn't get to my kids.
More time down the *****. What a ***** waste of resources. - sporg, on 10/19/2007, -2/+3While we are busy redesigning the internet could we install special controls and monitoring devices? Then when someone looks up certain things or posts anti government statements on a forum the police can automatically be dispatched to TAZE THEIR ASS!
/sarcasm - srodolff, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The Internet, by it's very nature, is in a constantly changing state. Servers and infrastructure are being added all the time. By redesign, this sounds a lot like upsetting net neutrality.
- kildurin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I say leave it alone. The government is itching to redesign it with the "safegaurds" in place to "enable law enforcement" and "protect the children". Neither of which I support. Please, leave it alone.
- subliminalurge, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I hear they'll be arriving on the same alien spacecraft that is delivering my 3 dozen nymphomaniac Eva Mendes lookalikes, who, aside from sex, list their favorite activities as "mowing my lawn", "cleaning my house", "cooking gourmet meals", and "paying my bills for me".
- ultrafez, on 10/12/2007, -0/+121CN is to do with the telephone system and using it via the Internet, not changing how the Internet works itself. That's just too big a task for one company in one country.
- madk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1My internets works fine over here.
- atarix64, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'll get right on it.
- ahpro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The thing is, different site owners would be like different countries and for each road to be made better, each country would have to make it better.
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