how is maintained the internet traffic?
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The internet backbone is maintained by a group of providers called tier 1 providers. Some of these include Level 3, Cox Communications, AT&T, Qwest.. (more detailed list in reference). These networks interconnect through a system known as peering. Disputes over peering agreements have been cause for many service interruptions on the internet (typically where one provider's customers cannot access sites on another provider's network).
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That answer changes every second. The internet is not just one computer hidden in some basement somewhere. You personally contribute to the internet size everytime that you log onto your service provider. The Internet is basically every connected computer and server in the world communicating amongst each other.
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go to http://www.alxea.com and check the traffic ranking info.
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http://www.alexa.com\nClick on traffic ranking at the top.
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THIMK!\n\nNo ISP has a "1 to 1" connection to the internet.  They use some formula to figure out an "average".   This results in slower transmissions when more are using it.  The same is true of the internet itself!
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Usually the only things retained on the Internet are those things posted to a bulletin board, website or USENET.  You can search for that at Google Groups.  If it's chat like with AIM or Yahoo Messenger and you don't have it set to log your chat, then no -- it's gone forever.  As for your emails, that's pretty much the same thing.  ISPs will keep copies of your emails for a while, but after a certain point, they'll just purge it.  If it's something you want to hang on to, you should consider saving it to disk or printing it out.
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You can install a network sniffer and watch the network traffic.  If you see unexpected traffic, you can see the IP address it is coming from.
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faster internet connection ie. DSL\nmore RAM
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First you need to get a good ISP that allows adult content and can handle the banwidth. After that, I'm sure there's plenty of webmasters willing to create and maintain your site...
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Considering that most computers connected online have hard drives with 20,000 or more megabytes (20 gigabytes, accounting even for somewhat older systems), the number is pretty huge.\n\nDue to the sheer number of people online and such, it's pretty hard to say.  However, I've seen simple networks with over 100 terabytes, or 100,000,000 megabytes of information.  With how many of these there are in the world, As of 1997, over 3,000 terabytes (3 billion megabytes) of information was simply transferred over the internet per month.\n\nNeedless to say, the Internet is much, much larger now.  So, to answer your question, it's a lot.  I'd guess that by now, the Internet has trillions of megabytes flowing through it each month.
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No, it will not slow the internet down. You will only notice slowness when you get about 30 computers on your network and they are all streaming music at the same time.
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There isn't much you can do, aside from "caching" content but that won't help you at all on webpages that have not been viewed or have changed since the last time you viewed them.\n\nSince Windows XP, you can actually add a second modem to your computer and, provided that you have a second phone line and that your ISP allows it, simultaneously dial-up a second connection, thus do what we call "shotgunning" your connection or effectively doubling the transfer rates.
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Data on the Internet will persist as long as the servers storing them are maintained, or until they are deleted by whoever has the administrative rights to do so...\n\nfor example, if you post a story on your own page on geocities, it will remain there until you remove it. also, other internet users may copy stories and post them on their own sites, so a story may propagate through the internet and effectively become indelible...\n\nnews stories published by bbc, sky etc. are archived online, so that even years later they can be retrieved and read...
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THey use a product called a "load balancer" that distributes the http requests across multiple servers.  You can also do this with round-robin dns.
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You can use software such as:\n\n1. Your own web log. Ask your webhost to give you access to your web log -- you'll see the IP address, what pages they are accessing and their source traffic in real time\n\n2. Use softwares such as\n\nHBX http://www.websidestory.com/\nGoogle Analytics http://www.google.com/analytics/ (free)\nWebTrends http://www.webtrends.com/
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Yup!\n     So many ways...... but depends upon your connection type if from modem then it's always slow.... in Comparision to others.... So varies\n \n-------- HOWEVER ONE THING IS COMMON FOR SLOW PROBLEM THAT INTERNET EXPLORER CACHES VISITED PAGE AND LOADS... THEM SO ALLL THE VISITED PAGES ARE RECORDED.... SO QUITE SLOW.... DUE TO THIS SO DELETE ALL HISTORY... GOING TO TOOLS AND INTERNET OPTIONS FROM INTERNET EXPLORER\n\nTHAT WON'T REMOVE TOTALLY.... SO DELETE IT FROM INTERNET OPTIONS.... FROM CONTROL PANNEL...... SO IF U DO THIS..... THEN IT'LL BE QUITE FAST THEN PREVIOUS ONE!...
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Prosecuting fly-by-night copanies that are often illegal anyway and operating in some dar backwater is not without difficulty.\n\nWhat folks are doing increasingly is getting a litt eprogram (or browser add-on) that lets you visit a site and repeatedly hard-refresh from the site.\n\nIf you have an unlimited bandwidth deal with your ISP, then just set a few browsers going in background, each repeatedly loading a page from the spammers website. Just ** one ** person can pull a few gigs overnight depending on connection speed. The spammers have to pay for the bandwidth.