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The Internet is on pause in a sense - Switchback - 02-03-2011
' Wrote:Yup, today in my lecture my lecturer brought up something that could shake up the internet and even effect the economy.
HOLY CRAP MY TEACHER SAID THE EXACT SAME THING 0_0
but yea. now i have a reason to tell my parents to keep our internet online.
The Internet is on pause in a sense - Switchback - 02-03-2011
edit: doublepost fail. mods, Kill this post.
The Internet is on pause in a sense - Akura - 02-03-2011
oh my what ever will we do
The Internet is on pause in a sense - arvg - 02-03-2011
no more porn?
The Internet is on pause in a sense - Akura - 02-03-2011
its the end of the internet as we know it
The Internet is on pause in a sense - Error - 02-03-2011
' Wrote:oh my what ever will we do
' Wrote:no more porn?
' Wrote:its the end of the internet as we know it
Not flood. Also, no. Not a thing will happen for the average end-user. It
depends on your ISP, not you. You won't have to keep your router on(, or worry about your free porn).
At all. Cheer up. In the worst case, you'll have to get a new router/wait for your ISP to provide you
one when that time comes.
Well, unless you're still running Windows 3.1, of course. You're pretty much screwed then.
The Internet is on pause in a sense - mwerte - 02-04-2011
' Wrote:You're overreacting, <strike>I think.</strike>FTFY.
The central pool of IPv4 addresses has run out, the local registrars still have a large chunk of addresses to give out, and businesses have been planning for this for a while, so they have a fair chunk of extras stored up.
All modern phones (3g or better) use IPv6, modern operating systems support it (no, XP does not count as a modern OS), and NATs will get us a long way. Stop fearmongering.
The Internet is on pause in a sense - AeternusDoleo - 02-04-2011
' Wrote:All in all folks, DO NOT LET YOUR ROUTERS POWER DOWN! Just in case. While I think its a fair bit of scaremongering right now, I'm not taking chances. I'm keeping my electricity bill topped up and leaving my router powered up. At least until IPv6 is online.This shows you don't really know what you're talking about hermano;)
Providers have reserved blocks, pools of IP addresses which they dish out to their customers. These pools are generally not saturated, so you won't run the risk of being unable to sign on.
But @Alvin: Yes. Should it go wrong. No more porn. Better stockpile those torrents!
The Internet is on pause in a sense - dr lameos - 02-04-2011
The remaining blocks of addresses have been given to ISP's to distribute - we'll run out in September/November. Company's/websites etc. use static addresses so they will continue to operate regardless, most personal use is dynamic and shared already - with traffic defined by the routers subnetworks rather than the public IP.
We need IPv6 soon, definately, world IPv6 day is June the 8th I think in which a lot of major sites (google, facebook, youtube etc.) will be using the v6 protocol as a testing platform.
Yes we need it, but the world isn't going to collapse tomorrow:)
~IT Networking Professional
The Internet is on pause in a sense - Cris - 02-04-2011
I'll put duct tape to my router power button just in case.