After a long Friday night of binge watching Stranger Things, you wake up in your living room with a fright to the sun shining through the curtains. You don\u2019t remember when you fell asleep, and perhaps you\u2019re still a bit confused as to where you even are!<\/p>\n
Once you gather your thoughts and pull yourself together, you start to wonder just how much data you just churned through watching Netflix all night.<\/p>\n
Offering about 2,100 movie and TV titles in Australia, Netflix delivers a formidable amount of content to stream, and can therefore take up a ton of bandwidth on your internet connection.<\/p>\n
A 2015 article in The Sydney Morning Herald<\/a>, released less than two weeks after Netflix launched, indicated that \u201cNetflix is having a huge impact on Australia\u2019s internet infrastructure,\u201d <\/em>with a significant amount of additional traffic passing through the various networks.<\/p>\n With Netflix\u2019s user base growing by 48% in 2016, the problem is only getting worse, and experts suggest that Netflix could eventually cause widespread Internet outages during peak usage times.<\/p>\n Your problems may not stop there. According to the Netflix\u2019s help center<\/a>, \u201cWatching TV shows or movies on Netflix uses about 1GB of data per hour for each stream of standard definition video, and up to 3GB per hour for each stream of HD video.\u201d<\/em> For the rarer Ultra HD content on Netflix, plan to budget a whopping 7GB per hour!<\/p>\n Assuming that you watch Netflix regularly, it wouldn\u2019t be difficult to pass 100GB a month of data on Netflix alone.<\/p>\n Best plan for 1-2 people<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n *For first 6 mths with BINGE25<\/p>\r\n Then reverts to $76\/mth<\/span>\r\n <\/div>\r\n Typical busy period download speed (7pm to 11 pm)<\/p>\r\n *Speeds may be lower on FTTN\/B, FTTC<\/span>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/a>\r\n Crikey nbn 25\/10<\/h4>\r\n
Unlimited<\/h4>\r\n
25 mbps<\/h4>\r\n