How is our bandwithh capacity doing? Will our DSL/Cable internet soon slow to a crawl from 6:00 to 11:00 pm?
Yes...
expect that your cable/telco ISP rates will start to spike if they have to stream huge files to your home since the network is not configured to handle those types of sustained downloads
4G networks are being built that can affordably provide the needed bandwidth wirelessly...
About eight years ago there was all sorts of concern about the oversupply of dark fiber (broadband capacity).
Liberals like to use such conditions to argue that business investment should be discouraged during economic downturns. People like me argue that investment should be encouraged at all times because businesses will find ways to use that oversupply rather than add to it.
Well, if only "streaming" is allowed, probably. But "streaming" has never made any sense at all to me. Set up things so their customers can actually automatically DOWNLOAD the movies they want to see. If "copyright" issues crop up, make it so that you have to download FROM NETFLIX a "Netflix only" media player and encrypt the transmitted movies. Encryption key technology is surely sufficient these days to allow such an approach.
I watched my first downloaded movie back in May or so, when I first signed up and there was no interruption. I don't know if that answers your question but it's what happened.