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**Mr Pickles** · #4 (**permalink**) 06-02-2008, 11:53 AM

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Originally Posted by Sigh-clone

Correct me if I'm wrong but the internet as an entity doesn't actually exist! I always thought that the word internet was short for international network (or something like that.) Soooo... so long as the servers on that network are kept up to date and there are enough of them then how can the internet get filled up? I might be way off beam here as these are only my thoughts and not based on any real facts

Its not so much of a Space issue, but more of a bandwidth problem. The demands of traffic passing down lines that are out of date and need replacing is more the issue.

In the UK British Telecom are beginning to upgrade their lines to fibre optic cables instead of the old traditional cables being used at the moment. These fibre optic cables will allow a faster bandwidth by alot.

There is also the issue that the severs all around the world are not equipped well enough to deal with the high demands that are currently being used. And a major upgrade of all servers may be needed to handle this growing demand for online entertainment. So if a company had say 1000 servers, and 3 years down the line they were not up to the task, then they would have to upgrade all of these to continue providing a service. This is not going to be possible for all providers to do, therefore these companies are asking for government funding to help ease this.