Re: Metcalfes "imminent death of the internet" prediction

[Matthew James Marnell <[e-mail]>]

:>Well here we are, Australia is taking a massive pounding and collecting
:>enough bronze to start a cannon foundry and I don't see any massive change
:>in my RTT/drop. Since Poland and Turkey now outrank OZ in the medal stakes,
:>maybe all the traffic is coming from Europe, but I'd have expected melt-down
:>to be visible all over (not)
:>
:>So what happened to the "Olympics gonna kill the net" claim? do we now
:>see some kind of retraction?

I don't know.  I've been trying to get through to the
www.atlanta.olympic.org that IBM has been advertising in their
Spinal Tap commercials.  While I can connect fine 50% of the
time, the sales.atlanta.olympic.org machine seems to keep falling
over (So badly, that even though the one page I was accessing
said that there were still tickets available to certain events,
but after 50 timeout, connection refused's, and incomplete pages,
or otherwise eroneous pages, when I finally got to the order page,
the tickets were already gone (when I finally called the number
(which took me 15 minutes to find with the crappy responses I
got from their servers)).  All in all, either the connection was
bad or the servers are undertuned.  Either way, the net seems to
be performing better than it was as little as 2 weeks ago.

Matt