Bigger pipes are only part of the solution.
When those occasions arise, I like to seek the council of Distinguished Professor of Netology Dr. W. W. Web. When I arrived for my most recent visit, Dr. Web had just finished clearing a clogged sewer line. Given the circumstances, any discussion of life, death and love seems strangely inappropriate. Fortunately, the sewer metaphor did lend itself to the other topic on my agenda, the increasingly clogged bandwidth of the Internet. The following is a transcript of our discussion.