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Strategies & Market Trends : Roger's 1997 Short Picks -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Marconi who wrote (6237)	10/29/1997 2:01:00 AM
From: Jon Tara	Respond to of 9285

[Off-topic] Marconi, you cannot choose your own Internet routing, through your browser or through any other means. This is determined solely by the routers along the way. That is their job. A properly-functioning router is SUPPOSED to "funnel connections through stronger paths". Unfortunately, the Internet has not evolved the way that the inventors intended. It was supposed to be roughly a geographical web, with additional connections superimposed over it according to high-traffic patterns. (That is, additional "bypass" connections as needed.) Instead, we have a large percentage of networks that connect through a small number of "choke points", and each of those networks is basically a geographical duplicate of all of the others. REALLY dumb. In many cases, an ISP has only a single path to the net, and even the best ISPs only have 2 or 3 connections to the net.