For those that stream NetFlix . . . Beware

[madmattco]

I have been doing research on this since January on the amount of bandwidth that the NetFlix service uses. expically with TiVO boxes. My findings were horrible. In my household we have 2 boxes that stream NetFlix and when even one gets going, no more internet in the house. So I enabled QoS on my router so that wouldn't happen and am still shocked at the amount of bandwidth being used. Here are some screen shots of my usage for the past 3 months.

Here is January


February


and March so far


Mind you this is with QoS enabled and set to 800kbit UP and 4000kbit Down. I would hate to see if I didn't have this enabled.

This is my service as of right now.


Now I dont know what the limits that comcast puts as a monthly service cap and I hope i never find out.

[Tim]

Realistically bandwidth is extremely cheap.

Any ISP that tries to tell you otherwise (Comcast, AT&T, etc) is lieing out their ass and is extremely corrupt. They cap your bandwidth so you will consider not watching that awesome movie on Netflix, and instead, ordering pay per view.

The forum topic should be instead: Those of you who use a stupid ISP that lies and caps your bandwidth, beware!