Internet users face regular “brownouts” that will freeze their computers as capacity runs out in cyberspace, according to research to be published later this year.Experts predict that consumer demand, already growing at 60% a year, will start to exceed supply from as early as next year because of more people working online and the soaring popularity of bandwidth-hungry websites such as YouTube and services such as the BBC’s iPlayer.It will initially lead to computers being disrupted and going offline for several minutes at a time. From 2012, however, PCs and laptops are likely to operate at a much reduced speed, rendering the internet an “unreliable toy”.
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article6169488.eceInternet users ‘could suffer brownouts due to YouTube and iPlayer’
Internet users will endure slower and less reliable connections from next year as websites such as YouTube and the BBC’s iPlayer cause online traffic to double, experts warn.Computers will freeze and drop offline with increasing regularity as the web’s outdated infrastructure struggles to cope with the surging popularity of bandwidth-hungry video sites, it is claimed.
www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/technologynews/5224306/Internet-users-could-suffer-brownouts-due-to-YouTube-and-iPlayer.html
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