We complain about how slow the Internet is at school. Sometimes Web pages are slow to open. Streaming audio and video are usually not worth bothering to try. We all look forward to the day when things will be better, but will they? This week’s article paints a dark picture. Go to the link below and read the article. Write a reflective comment that addresses my questions and expresses your opinion about the topic.
Were you surprised by the fact about YouTube? How much do you think their consumption will be this year? How do you think the Internet traffic surge will affect your personal use in the next few years? If you agree with the article’s suggestion that the traffic congestion problem is local, what should be done here in Jordan to provide a solution? If the problem does get worse, what will you do to continue using the Web applications that you presently use?
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Indeed, I was surprised by the fact that YouTube consumed as much bandwidth as the entire Internet did in 2000. Well, YouTube is a well-known site for various types of clips ranging from education to entertainment. So, I believe that the consumption will increase a lot this year. If the internet gets worse in the next few years, then I will have hard time downloading movies and music from the internet. If the traffic congestion problem is local, then Jordanian government should let a limit to each internet user of how much they can consume per month. If the problem gets worse, I guess I have to limit the web application that I am currently using now.
I was totally shocked that YouTube used as much bandwidth as entire Internet. The only effect I think that will affect my life is slower Internet, including slower downloading times on itunes. I don’t think there is anyway to stop this because limiting Internet time will cause people to get really upset. I wouldn’t change a thing I don’t really care if it slows down because one person wont make a difference.
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Well, internet traffic has always existed on a small scale. In Jordan, we have bandwidth limits. 5 gbs of uploading and downloading per month. Some ISPs in the US place bandwidth for fear of illegal doing, however they are not as small as this. But, I mean, as the internet gets larger, so is the technology to run it. I'm not afraid of internet traffic jams occuring anytime soon. All the major websites now have thousands of terabyte uploads per month. When a terabyte gets to small, well, we'll just have a much larger size to send out. It's all relative. With fiber optics becoming that much more common place, I believe that that may speed things in general. The new undersea cables that are going to be installed send out a terabyte per second through them.
In all honesty, I'd expect more bandwidth usage from Youtube. The Alexa Ranking System places youtube as the SECOND most trafficked website in the world.It's only second to the behemoth of Yahoo.
I was shocked to hear that Youtube uses as much bandwidth as what the entire internet used in 2000. I knew that Youtube used alot, I just didn't know that it was that much. I think that Youtube's consuption is going to increase as the site becomes more and more popular. I hope that this won't affect my personal use of the internet that much. The only place where I have experienced the internet going slow is at school. If someone were to have a dial-up connection a few years from now it would be even slower than what it already is. I think that there should be more bandwidth in Jordan so that the internet would work quicker and more people could be online at once. If the internet situation does get worse I would probley continue to use web applications the same, but it would take longer. I think that if this situation keeps getting worse that even the fastest internet connections will be as slow as a dial-up connection.
It is quite shocking that Youtube, by itself, used as much bandwidth as the entire internet has used in 2000. I believe this will increase even more as long as people keep uploading their videos. I personally use internet a lot, thus this Internet traffic surge, if happens, is going to limit my use of internet. If they are aware of this, Jordan should expand their bandwidth limits in order to provide satisfactory internet service. I really don’t know what to do if the situation does get worse because the internet currently is unbearably slow.
Surprised????... More like shocked; it is simply amazing how the Internet is booming. Their consumption will increase and increase, sites such as Youtube are always on demand because they’re a place to share your part of reality. Well it was implying how fast the Internet was growing in amount of users but it also talked about how the technology is advancing just as well. So it all depends on whether the technology can keep up with the amount of consumers. If it could, then there will be no problem, but if the amount of users exceeds our technology, then we will be facing some Internet lag, but no crash down. Yes I do agree with the Internet being a local problem. The average citizen, I doubt, can do much, but it’s all in the government’s hand on whether to invest money into expanding its Internet technology or not. There would be nothing to do more than complain to the right authorities, and maybe once they get enough complaints they might agree to invest a little more into upgrading their Internet services. Otherwise, there’s nothing else I can do. But all in all, I can never imagine there being no Internet, too many people and jobs depend on it in their daily life for it to crash. If such a thing happens, you will have huge amounts crowds demonstrating, and demanding that their governments to act about it.
YES! Even though everyone posts videos on YouTube, I didn’t expect it to consume the same amount of bandwidth as the entire Internet did in 2000. I think their consumption will probably be double because it has a lot more users because it’s more popular now than it was in the year 2000. The problem is not local because I’ve lived all over the world and experienced Internet traffic there. If the internet gets any slower than it is some times nowadays then I will strike against YouTube and start telling people not to download videos onto it. If blocking the YouTube website will make my internet faster then I don’t really mind blocking it.
I’ve always known that Youtube has many thousands of videos uploaded onto it, but it never occurred to me that it’s using up that much bandwidth! Wow. I’m not really concerned about internet trafficking because as internet use increases, so does technology which has been making internet use easier and more convenient for us. I do find it annoying though that some pages will take forever to load. Usually I get so frustrated that I just don’t bother with the site anymore. I agree that the internet trafficking problem is a local one. It’s a good thing that in Jordan there’s a limit to the amount of downloads you get. I never knew that until we started getting extra fees on our internet bills. However, I am concerned that the severity of internet trafficking will increase. I mean if Youtube alone is using up all this bandwidth (which will continue to increase in the years to come), what about all those other millions of sites out there? I think there should be some kind of website/video upload regulation. Like if a website hasn’t been visited for the past month or something it should be taken down, the same should apply for unwatched videos and unused emails. I think the internet should be cleaned from a lot of crap that’s on it in order to avoid making internet trafficking an even bigger problem.
Yes, off course I was shocked, to hear that only one site can use this much of the bandwidth. I’m certain that it will use more this year. I’m sure that all this will keep making the Internet slower. If the government or the internet company doesn’t do anything about it, I will, by blocking you tube on all the computers in my house, because I would be willing to give up something like you tube for a fast internet connection. I kind of don’t agree with Ehar about telling other people to stop uploading videos, because all the people I know won’t make a difference when it comes to the millions that upload and use you tube.
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I was very surprised to learn that YouTube had basically used up as much space as the whole internet did in one year previously. This year I think their consumption of bandwidth might actually double, simply because more and more people are using the internet, and along with that comes the discovery of this big and useful sites such as YouTube. If what they article predicts is true, then I think my personal use of the internet will be greatly affected. I depend on my internet connection based program (LimeWire), for downloading music at a fast and efficient rate. Also, I am always using sites such as FaceBook, Hotmail, and YouTube for everything and slowing those down would be very irritating. I don’t think that the traffic congestion is local. I think that an important issue is the fact that millions of people all around the world are using the same sites at the same time, causing that huge traffic jam. Locally there are problems, but they don’t compare to the global aspects. If the problem gets worse, yes I would probably still use the web applications I use today, simply because they have become such a huge part of my everyday life that I wouldn’t give them up just because they got a little slower.
By Nadine
I really wasn't surprised about the You Tube fact. You Tube is probably the hottest selling ticket on the internet, people love to document their lives and share it with the world, thus You Tube should be expected to be such an internet powerhouse. I think that their internet consumption will probably rise maybe 50% or more, like I said before, people love You Tube. As a result of this surge of new users of internet, traffic will begin to clog, and more and more, internet will become slower and slower for many consumers that cannot afford to have expensive upgrades performed on their internet connections. Now, logical analysis states that internet congestion is bound to happen sooner or later, in fact, most likely to occur in 2011. If I were to create a solution for this internet congestion, I would have to enact an action similar to what New York City does to avoid having catastrophic car traffic blockages. I would have to set up a set time in every day when users in Jordan may not use internet, for about 3 or less hours. If every country can set apart differentiating times when they do not use the internet, then congestion can be avoided, but every country has to agree to it, and more importantly, the people who are internet crazy have to deny themselves. Now, if these conditions get worse, people will have to resort to doing the things they need or like to do, the old fashioned way. If it takes forever to get to Wikipedia, well then its about time you went to the library and saw what a real encyclopedia looks like. Want to chat with your friends, go visit them in their homes or in a public place, it won't kill you and you'll get to practice your phonetics and walk off a few pounds. Trust me, if the internet goes bad, people will go back to doing things the old fashioned way. We might even grow up and tell our grandchildren, "Did you know that I had to get up and change the television channels by hand when I was a boy."
Yes, I was extremely shocked to hear that YouTube uses so much bandwidth, and it uses a lot more than all other sites. It’s really surprising. This year will only increase. YouTube is getting more and more popular and hundreds of thousands of people are using the site daily. So for sure things will only go up with YouTube. The Internet I think will affect us greatly in the next few years and I have a feeling that it will slow the Internet worldwide. The Internet is using so much space and bandwidth and many people are using it so it’s either going to get shut down or just get slower and slower over the years. In Jordan I think all the sites such as YouTube that harm our computers and Internet should be blocked and never accessed by anyone in order to maintain a high speed internet connection. If there is nothing that I can do to help the Internet speed than I guess I could help by deleting any files on my computer that are big and that are taking up a lot of memory. I would delete and clean out my computer completely to have a fast Internet connection.
I had no idea that YouTube used that much bandwidth. Because YouTube us getting much more popular by using it as a way to become recognized or just as a way to be entertained, I think that the bandwidth will increase much more this year. The internet would be much faster with out YouTube, I'm sure, but it is something that people would go against. And because so many people use YouTube, I don't think the company would be successful at blocking it. I would personally love for my internet to be faster. Like what Ethar said, if it means making my internet faster, I wouldn't mind blocking it. Also, because I don't use YouTube much, it wouldn't affect me that much.
The fact about YouTube does not shock me at all; YouTube is an immensely popular website and videos take up enormous amounts of bandwidth. I can only see their consumption spreading and spreading, because it is unlikely that videos will ever go out of vogue. I hope the internet traffic surge doesn't affect me too greatly, since I don't use the internet to download things or watch videos all that often, but it seems unavoidable. I don't know if I know enough about the issue to agree or disagree with the assertion about traffic problems being local, but it would make sense if they are. I'm not sure what should be done in Jordan: perhaps if there were more ways for Jordanians to get quality media (IE better television programming, larger variety of radio stations) or even a better variety of non-media activities, the problem might lessen. I think that 'visual richness' on the internet isn't that important, and while the websites I use are mostly pretty visually rich, I would still use them if they cut back a little bit and simplified their designs. I don't think I would really care if it became harder to watch videos on the web.
I was extremely surprised about that fact, thinking that only 8 years ago our internet wasn’t that advanced. YouTube is a growing entity and it will continue to grow but I cannot guess by how much. I believe internet traffic is going to be really bad but somehow we will find a way to solve it so it won’t affect me that much. Allow only one computer per home could work as a solution. If the problem does get worse we will just have to keep upgrading our internet to be able to keep the same speed.
I don’t think there is an internet problem. The media are using their deceptive ways to trick people into believing that we have a problem. The internet is a vast world. People have been predicting an internet crash for many years, and if their right, they can say that they were right, if they were wrong, nobody cares. Even though sites such as YouTube, and other “high bandwidth” sites are demanding more from internet providers, I believe it is the user that ultimately decides whether we will continue to have a steady and clean supply of internet. On the contrary, I think that internet will be cheaper in the future. I think we’re going to look back and laugh at how expensive internet was. Jordan shouldn’t be doing a lot for internet ports. First, Jordan does not consume a lot of internet time. In this country, internet is expensive and not many people use it for an extensive amount of time. Second, Jordan does not have a lot of people, thus it is not the main source for this over usage.
Of course I am shocked about the fact that Youtube consumes as much bandwidth as the entire internet did in the yeaar 2000, and I think it will increase because Youtube is getting more popular by the minute. The internet is my life, so if the problem occurs then I will probably get really pissed, so that is why the goverment should limit the use of internet here.
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