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clipped from www.sci-tech-today.com A new Nemertes study says that a major Net bottleneck will be where Internet traffic goes to the home from coaxial lines and the copper wires that phone companies use for DSL. To avoid a slowdown, these companies, and increasingly, wireless service providers, must invest $55 billion, Nemertes says. That's almost 70% more than planned. Enjoy your speedy broadband Web access while you can. The Web will start to seem pokey as early as 2010, as use of interactive and video-intensive services overwhelms local cable, phone and wireless Internet providers, a study by business technology analysts Nemertes Research has found. Users will experience a slow, subtle degradation, so it's back to the bad old days of dial-up," says Nemertes President Johna Till Johnson. "The cool stuff that you'll want to do will be such a pain in the rear that you won't do it." Two years ago, nobody knew what YouTube was," Johnson says. "Now, it's generating 27 petabytes (27 million gigabytes) of data per month.