The Internet is on pause in a sense

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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.

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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

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edit: doublepost fail. mods, Kill this post.

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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

[Akura]

oh my what ever will we do

[arvg]

no more porn?

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[Akura]

its the end of the internet as we know it

[Error]

oh my what ever will we do

no more porn?

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.

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[mwerte]

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.

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[AeternusDoleo]

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!

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Wide awake in a world that sleeps, enduring thoughts, enduring scenes. The knowledge of what is yet to come.
From a time when all seems lost, from a dead man to a world, without restraint, unafraid and free.

Mostly retired Discovery member. May still visit from time to time.

[dr lameos]

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

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[Cris]

I'll put duct tape to my router power button just in case.

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