[Networking] HarrowingLife:
I think you'd find Zeitgeist: Moving Forward a very interesting and enlightening watch :)

But most importantly, are you aware of the Internet being Declared a Human Right this week by the UN? http://mashable.com/2012/07/06/internet-human-right/

I am truely jeolus, I wish I had the option of moving to a area that I could get a nice 100Mbps connection. I would love to be able to actually stream my 1080p 3D Movies, Game Videos, and even 4K on YouTube.

We are moving into a era where the major content providers mirror their content in multipale data centers around the globe. (Google, 1&1, etc)

This should help with this problem, as will the new "Polarization" method for Fiber. (Am I right in assuming that this will only require each end's equipment to be upgraded on every International Fiber link?)

Sorry, that was a little immature of me. I unfortunately missed the BBS days, but loved watching Star Wars in ASCII via Telnet (Connect to towel.blinkenlights.nl for most recent version I'm aware of)

I've more than agree'd that Three should run QoS at the Mast Level, in my area I never have problems with throughput and the Mast is probably very under-used.

You are very lucky that you didn't experience the original TrafficSense. If you did you'd be angry. Modern-day Web Sites on a connection equal to 56Kbps via satellite with extreme packet loss. (The Latency was hitting over 5 seconds)

I average around 100-150GB a month on a low-load Mast, most of this is done between 12AM-9AM except for Netflix/iPlayer/YouTube.

However, my servers connected at 1Gbps (Contended of course) have over 5TeraByte's a month allowance and each one costs the same as my Three contract! So yes this all seems fair to me, and apparently to Three as well. Plus they did promise to help Rural area's out. Something they seem to be sticking to.

Why would I start here? I'm actually pretty angry that Digital Downloads are MP3/AAC and not FLAC! Thank you CEX and eBay for making it easy to get CD's of music I like if its not available on Digital Download in a Lossless format.

We had 100Mbps Ethernet LAN, with a Council arranged 10Mbps Co-Ax (Most likely to Telewest's network) connection for WAN at school. This was 2001 IIRC.

Are younger people more Hungry for Bytes? (Judging by the people I've know I'd say yes, more likely to use Torrents for example)

I do not consider this to be a flame-war, more a interesting discussion. Especially now I've learn't about Token Ring thanks to you mentioning it :)

All of this was more about it being un-announced, just suddenly hitting us with the connection literally being unusable even by 2000 standards for a whole week with no compensation. If I could still play a Online Game that is fine on Dial-Up I wouldn't have been angry. As for games, yes they are getting huge now. High Resolution Textures for example. Please remember BluRay is 50GB. Even World of Warcraft is a 18GB Download for me. Skyrim + DLC was huge. L.A. Noire was very large. What I mentioned however was GTA IV which came in at around 28GB download including Patches.

As for the rest, please watch Zeitgeist, or at least look at how many Likes it has on YouTube... (Although it will be over 3GB if you Stream it)

Suffice to say, we'll never have enough jobs for 80% of the working-able population in this country, and its only going to get worse until people realise exactly what the real issues are.