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I don't use 10x as much bandwidth every 3yrs either. I don't use 3x. I don't come anywhere near my "unlimited cap", nor do I use anywhere near my 80mbps limit,

by creeble 10y ago

I don't use 10x as much bandwidth every 3yrs either. I don't use 3x. I don't come anywhere near my "unlimited cap", nor do I use anywhere near my 80mbps limit, except the occasional download (from a very well-connected source). Consumers at home use bandwidth for exactly one thing: video. I can only watch so much video (just as I can only shit so much). And the cable that comes into my home - like the sewer line - is 30 years old, and has never been upgraded.

enraged_camel 10y ago
>>I don't use 10x as much bandwidth every 3yrs either. 10 years ago, how many static web pages had several megabytes of JavaScript just to render three paragraphs of text? :)
nightski 10y ago
Well you are not typical then. I just had a long conversation with our cable guy as he was installing internet in a new place. He said that more & more people are trying to stream 4k video and hitting their caps within hours/days. It's kind of a problem. It's really funny because they offer gigabit speed internet but it's cap is lower than the 100Mbit. So you get faster transfer speeds but less actual data. Also our city (which is relatively small in the 200k range) has two competing cable providers installing fiber for gigabit internet across the city. This doesn't seem uncommon and I'd call that a total replacement.
- fattire 10y ago
  You live in a 200k-person "city" and everyone's buying 4k-capable TVs? This doesn't sound like a typical town to me.
  - omarchowdhury 10y ago
    There are 40 inch 4K TVs for $400 now.
- creeble 10y ago
  That doesn't mean they need to upgrade the wire going into the house then.
toopok4k3 10y ago
We don't come even close to sending uncompressed 1080p over the internet. So no, we don't have good enough internet connections yet even for video. Netflix/youtube streams are still garbage in image quality with huge amount of compression artifacts.

by creeble 10y ago

enraged_camel 10y ago

>>I don't use 10x as much bandwidth every 3yrs either. 10 years ago, how many static web pages had several megabytes of JavaScript just to render three paragraphs of text? :)

nightski 10y ago

Well you are not typical then. I just had a long conversation with our cable guy as he was installing internet in a new place. He said that more & more people are trying to stream 4k video and hitting their caps within hours/days. It's kind of a problem. It's really funny because they offer gigabit speed internet but it's cap is lower than the 100Mbit. So you get faster transfer speeds but less actual data. Also our city (which is relatively small in the 200k range) has two competing cable providers installing fiber for gigabit internet across the city. This doesn't seem uncommon and I'd call that a total replacement.

fattire 10y ago
You live in a 200k-person "city" and everyone's buying 4k-capable TVs? This doesn't sound like a typical town to me.
- omarchowdhury 10y ago
  There are 40 inch 4K TVs for $400 now.
creeble 10y ago
That doesn't mean they need to upgrade the wire going into the house then.

toopok4k3 10y ago

We don't come even close to sending uncompressed 1080p over the internet. So no, we don't have good enough internet connections yet even for video. Netflix/youtube streams are still garbage in image quality with huge amount of compression artifacts.