Remember when ISPs want to put bandwidth caps (actually transfer caps, but everyone calls them bandwidth caps so I will too) on your connection that games, movies and other media are only getting larger. All the idiots and the clown car full of idiots at Wired who support these restrictions never seem to understand that.

An upcoming game that is sure to be very popular — Star Citizen — will weigh in as a 100GB download.

Some common bandwidth caps now are 150GB, 250GB and 300GB. One game then could use nearly all or a significant portion of your entire allotment for the month.

This is the plan, by the way — to ease people into paying more over time. Games will only get larger. So will movies. 4K is not the end. I expect movies to top at around 8K in 2025 or so, and then there will be VR which will require 20-100x the bandwidth of 8K.

The average connection in 2040 will probably use 100TB or so a month. Quite a lot more than even the most generous cap now. Think the ISPs are likely to expand caps at the same rate as usage?

If so, what are you smoking?