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Will the web grind to a halt?

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    Will the web grind to a halt?

    There was a Sunday Times article yesterday explaining how iPlayers and Slingboxes could slow the web down to a crawl.

    Is it likely?

    (and it's the 1st time I've seen the term exabyte used in anger - just when I was getting used to petabyte...)
    "I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
    - Voltaire/Benjamin Franklin/Anne Frank...

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    Originally posted by cojak View Post
    There was a Sunday Times article yesterday explaining how iPlayers and Slingboxes could slow the web down to a crawl.

    Is it likely?

    (and it's the 1st time I've seen the term exabyte used in anger - just when I was getting used to petabyte...)
    Nope it will just be an excuse for networking companies to sell ever faster bits of fibre kit

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