Hi everyone. So 3 days ago my wife decided to finally break down and get Netflix. At that time she even asked me "Will we have to worry about about our 300GB limit at all?" I looked up on Netflix's website where they reference an hour show being about 2GB or less (Unless you have the HD Package which we did not get). So I told her there was no problem. Her intention was to watch the entire season of a show, 13 episodes, 48 minutes each. She did this over 3 days. So lets do some math. Math is fun right?
Lets just round the numbers up because I'm bad at math! 1 hour, 13 episodes, 2GBs
1x13x2= 26
Twenty six gigs! Wow, that does seem like a bunch but no real worries right? We can totally fit that in since we have the 300GB limit and for the last 6 months we've ended each month anywhere between 150GBs-210GBs.
So then today we get an email from Teksavvy... "You have currently used 61% of your monthly bandwidth limit 300GB for service High Speed DSL 15 Pro."
WHAT?! Its June 9th how the hell...
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OH BOY!
So I'm very, very confused. I'm not sure why June 5th was up at 28GBs because that seems very high also but maybe I was watching a lot of Youtubes as I often do. But the next 3 days, where we had the Netflix usage... 43, 37, 44GBs?! How? We've never even approached totals like that before. For 13 measly episodes of a TV show not even in HD?
Is this typical of Netflix or did we encounter some sort of bug from hell?
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