Will Your Internet Have a Place to Live Next Year?

As life would go it seems that with all of our great advancements in computer technology and live streaming with movies and video chat our computer age of advancement may come to an abrupt halt by a soon as next year.
According to a survey of 610 government, educational and other tech using organizations across Europe, the Middle East and Asia only 17 percent have currently update their IP address to the new IPv6 technique.

This does not have anything to do with the address you type into your browser to locate a particular site. This is you equipment device address that is identified when you connect to the Internet or web chat or video streaming.
According to this survey these addresses are almost gone.

Seems we ran into a similar problem about 11 years ago with the revamping of area codes in many locations across the country due to the usage and increase of production of devices such as conference phones and more fax machines and more direct number lines to offices and businesses and yes some help from the Internet.

According to Sam Pickles, lead enterprise engineer at F5 Networks, new companies that want their piece of the Internet will have to adopt to the IPv6 address technique or due without posting their business on the Internet.
Currently we use an technique known as IPv4. There is only room for a few tens of thousands or hundreds of thousand IPv4 addresses left and these will be gone as early as December 2011 according to Mr. Pickles.

If a business would like to come on-line once the IPv4 address technique becomes full, the transition we have been assured is a simple one but will require the purchase of new networking equipment. According to Mr. Pickles the updates are already installed in Windows and Mac. So what does all of this mean to the ordinary person. Well when the current format fills up, you could see a drop in Internet speed and new connections could become more expensive. I can bet that when the Internet was up and running years ago the developers never imagined that so many devices would come into play. Everything from large servers to cell phones taking a chunk of the Internet. Or did they? According to an on-line article published by Fox News, the Internet founders were aware of the expansion and had agreed upon the IPv6 change almost a decade ago.

This would lead one to question the legitimacy of some of the current web providers adds to fastest Internet or cell carriers and their 3G calling. Have these already been transformed for the IPv6 or are we getting ready to feel a price bite in about a year. Of course there will be no leverage used I'm sure with regards to those who will have to invest in upgrades to transform with regards to price gouging on equipment from the creator's and manufacturer's.