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.

You live in a 200k-person "city" and everyone's buying 4k-capable TVs? This doesn't sound like a typical town to me.

There are 40 inch 4K TVs for $400 now.

That doesn't mean they need to upgrade the wire going into the house then.

>>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?

:)

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.