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Kevin Alexander James Nugent (aa006@chebucto.ns.ca) wrote:
: Brandon Hume (hume@ra.isisnet.com) wrote:
: : In general, it can be said that the Internet is starting to collapse of its
: : own weight, the hype is gone, and almost all ISPs have put themselves in
: : positions where they provide so much they can't generate any revenue to 
: : keep it going.

: God protect us from more, "IMMINENT DEMISE OF THE INTERNET", hogwash which 
: goes around every few years.  Five years ago the ARPANET backbone was a 
: T1 Line.  Now you can look for and find backbones running at 
: 155mbits/sec.  The system is not mature.  While this is the case we'll 
: run in cycles of ADEQUATE==SLUGGISH==ADEQUATE==SLUGGISH.

I believe Mr. Hume was speaking more from a business perspective rather
than a network perspective. Do you notice the rise and fall of large
internet providers? The cycle happens much quicker with ISP's than other
businesses. A company can start off offering only connections for personal
use, and thats fine, but what about when you outgrow that moderately
priced 56k line? Solution, start taking on business customers. *gasp*
Business customers seem to pay the bills SO much better than those poor
folks who want to read their email! But businesses are also bandwidth
hogs. Gotta upgrade that line. Waitasec, that line is EXPENSIVE. Wait
another sec! All those personal customers that we ignored in favor of
the business clients are jumping ship like drowning rats! Public 
opinion is the shits and our stock is only worth $1.30 when it opened at
$7.25!

People have a lot of other choices when it comes to who's going to give
them their provider. Most of them will NOT be treated like numbers or 
incovenient net-weights.

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