You know that the numbers of online gamers has grown significantly when you start to see articles like this one. Nothing but good for us, as consumers, though, as it will certainly nudge the industry that much closer to taking the next step. Internet2 anyone?

"Sandvine's latest statistics showed that Xbox Live traffic quadrupled when 'Halo 2' was launched on Nov. 9 , and it has stayed at that level since. Sandvine claims that this will put added pressure on ISPs to improve the quality of their broadband offerings, as users will demand reliability and low latency."