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About cost (Gig bytes on internet) of netflix - cannot ask netflix if not a member!!

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  • illiad
    illiad Posts: 22 Forumite
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    well around 2000, capping was the norm..  BT and the rest would just warn you, then stop you...
    56,000 bps was considered the **fastest** then!! search 'wiki' for 'Dial-up_Internet_access'
    Then when Richard Branson took over telewest and other similar companies, it got a lot better..
     they would just slow you down when you got over the limit, and at the end of the month, your speed would be back to normal again..
    the was STILL 'Shared_bandwidth' search 'wiki' for Cable_Internet_access#Shared_bandwidth
    and lot of arguments about 'contention' that the word was removed and other 'excuses' put in!!!

  • Zellah
    Zellah Posts: 303 Forumite
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    illiad said:
    well around 2000, capping was the norm..  BT and the rest would just warn you, then stop you...
    56,000 bps was considered the **fastest** then!! search 'wiki' for 'Dial-up_Internet_access'
    Then when Richard Branson took over telewest and other similar companies, it got a lot better..
     they would just slow you down when you got over the limit, and at the end of the month, your speed would be back to normal again..
    the was STILL 'Shared_bandwidth' search 'wiki' for Cable_Internet_access#Shared_bandwidth
    and lot of arguments about 'contention' that the word was removed and other 'excuses' put in!!!

    Dude we’re in the year 2020, not 2000. 
  • Neil_Jones
    Neil_Jones Posts: 9,534 Forumite
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    illiad said:
    well around 2000, capping was the norm..  BT and the rest would just warn you, then stop you...
    56,000 bps was considered the **fastest** then!! search 'wiki' for 'Dial-up_Internet_access'
    Then when Richard Branson took over telewest and other similar companies, it got a lot better..
     they would just slow you down when you got over the limit, and at the end of the month, your speed would be back to normal again..
    the was STILL 'Shared_bandwidth' search 'wiki' for Cable_Internet_access#Shared_bandwidth
    and lot of arguments about 'contention' that the word was removed and other 'excuses' put in!!!


    Considering I've been on the internet since April 1999, I am aware thank you of how it used to be.
    But you're talking about what happened 20 years ago.  None of that happens now, the world has changed, the internet has changed.  If you want to harp on about what the internet used to be, then that's history is for and the story of the history of the internet covers that easily.
    And Wikipedia is not a "reliable source" for anything, being a user contributed encyclopedia, which more often than not will contain falsehoods.
  • JJ_Egan
    JJ_Egan Posts: 20,281 Forumite
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    edited 16 December 2020 at 10:36AM
    As above are we going back to 1p a min dial up .
    Do they do dial up on FTTP or am i stuck with 1000 meg ?
  • iniltous
    iniltous Posts: 3,652 Forumite
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    Realistically in an on-demand world any provider that caps their tariffs probably won't have any customers after a while.
    The only tariff I'm aware of that is technically capped (though you can go over) is BT Basic with Broadband - 15Gb included, but that's a social tariff they're obliged to provide and it isn't available to everybody anyway.
    Even BT Basic broadband is currently unlimited, with the start of Covid they removed any cap , and it’s never been reapplied 
  • waamo
    waamo Posts: 10,298 Forumite
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    Has the op popped to Comet and picked up a Freeserve disc? You do need a CD player though. I'm pretty sure they don't do it on floppy drives if you don't have one.
  • jsmith9
    jsmith9 Posts: 419 Forumite
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    wongataa said:
    DVB-T2 is for terrestrial television broadcasts over the air.  It does not come over the internet.  Netflix is delivered via the internet just like Youtube or any other streaming service.  Netflix says HD video uses about 3GB per hour.  Just search for Netflix usage per hour.  You don't need to be a member to find out the answer.
    Most internet services in the UK don't have download caps.
    Quite a few assumptions in this thread  -  as it happens I have an internet service in the UK and it is capped and would also be quite interested in the amount of gigabytes per hour Netflix takes

     thank you for the answer which appears to be about 3 gigabytes per hour
  • Zellah
    Zellah Posts: 303 Forumite
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    edited 4 January 2021 at 9:30PM
    jsmith9 said:
    wongataa said:
    DVB-T2 is for terrestrial television broadcasts over the air.  It does not come over the internet.  Netflix is delivered via the internet just like Youtube or any other streaming service.  Netflix says HD video uses about 3GB per hour.  Just search for Netflix usage per hour.  You don't need to be a member to find out the answer.
    Most internet services in the UK don't have download caps.
    Quite a few assumptions in this thread  -  as it happens I have an internet service in the UK and it is capped and would also be quite interested in the amount of gigabytes per hour Netflix takes

     thank you for the answer which appears to be about 3 gigabytes per hour
    If you need to watch your usage then perhaps you need to go on a uncapped fixed line or mobile internet service? Bandwidth costs have come down massively in recent years, nearly every fixed line ISP now offers uncapped packages as standard. 
  • jsmith9
    jsmith9 Posts: 419 Forumite
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    I don't need normally to watch my usage but was considering Netflix and was interested in the hourly usage and so the 3 gigabyte per hour was quite an interesting fact for me thanks everyone
  • Zellah
    Zellah Posts: 303 Forumite
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    jsmith9 said:
    I don't need normally to watch my usage but was considering Netflix and was interested in the hourly usage and so the 3 gigabyte per hour was quite an interesting fact for me thanks everyone
    Out of interest which ISP are you with and how much data allowance do you have each month?
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