Obama visits HVCC
President Obama is visiting a local community college, HVCC, here in upstate NY today. This is an invitation-only affair which will go down in about two hours from now where Pres. Obama plans to address the importance of community colleges as well as programs for alternative energy, something HVCC is well-known for in the area.
Local websites are being over-loaded already. It will be interesting to see if any of them can stay online during the speech, I hope so.
This is the problem with the current state of broadband in our nation. It gets easily overloaded and the all-too-common “buffering” message is becoming a staple of the online experience. I don’t think bigger tubes will solve the problem, we just need smarter tubes.
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