Mobilicity cancelled my Cell Plan.

[Canach]

I agree they need to put a cap, or ay LEAST warn people. This is bad PR, but good for the big 3. I had 2 people almost convinced that mobi was better and this completely changed their mind.

[rjwells]

To those who say you cannot be banned for watching Netflix, let me just point out that at full bandwidth Netflix consumes ~2 gigabytes per hour, or roughly ~500 gigabytes per month of bandwidth if you have it on 8 hours a day. In other words if you come home and turn it on, and leave it on in the background while you do other things, the way many people treat their television.

I would call that "normal behavior". Consider Netflix as a replacement for cable TV.

Now maybe on mobi the quality would drop to the lowest quality, in which case you would consume only around 75 gigabytes per month.

At what point do they ban you? Watching Netflix does not appear to be against the terms of service, but I am guessing that somewhere between 75G and 500G you would be labelled an "abuser".

[el_huevon]

To those who say you cannot be banned for watching Netflix, let me just point out that at full bandwidth Netflix consumes ~2 gigabytes per hour, or roughly ~500 gigabytes per month of bandwidth if you have it on 8 hours a day. In other words if you come home and turn it on, and leave it on in the background while you do other things, the way many people treat their television.

I would call that "normal behavior". Consider Netflix as a replacement for cable TV.

Now maybe on mobi the quality would drop to the lowest quality, in which case you would consume only around 75 gigabytes per month.

At what point do they ban you? Watching Netflix does not appear to be against the terms of service, but I am guessing that somewhere between 75G and 500G you would be labelled an "abuser".

You know honestly, I hope someone gives it a try. I'm very curious to see what kind of consumption totals you could rack up just watching Netflix nonstop in different cities using a mobi mobile data plan.

Of course Netflix Canada only has 4 or 5 titles so....

Just a little joke.

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[mGeek]

To those who say you cannot be banned for watching Netflix, let me just point out that at full bandwidth Netflix consumes ~2 gigabytes per hour, or roughly ~500 gigabytes per month of bandwidth if you have it on 8 hours a day. In other words if you come home and turn it on, and leave it on in the background while you do other things, the way many people treat their television.

I would call that "normal behavior". Consider Netflix as a replacement for cable TV.

Now maybe on mobi the quality would drop to the lowest quality, in which case you would consume only around 75 gigabytes per month.

At what point do they ban you? Watching Netflix does not appear to be against the terms of service, but I am guessing that somewhere between 75G and 500G you would be labelled an "abuser".

I don't know how you got your numbers from but you will not be consuming 2GB per hour on Mobilicity. Your best speed is 3megabits per second. 3megabits/8 is 375KBytes/sec, multiple by 60 to get per minute = 22.5 MB, multiple 60 again to get an hour = 1.350 GB. So 1.3G/hour is the most you can possibly do on Mobilicity assuming all the conditions are right.

In any case, NetFlix streams aren't that data hungry. According to the Reuters article below, it used to be about 31GB for 30 hours, so that's close to 1GB per hour. Now, it's 9GB per 30 hours, so more like 300MB per hour. Nowhere near your exaggerated 2GB per hour.


http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/...25072820110329

[Helloo]

0.3gb @ 12hrs/day for 30 days is 108gb/month assuming no other internet usage. So a reasonable cap should be > 100gb? hah

[xtachx]

0.3gb @ 12hrs/day for 30 days is 108gb/month assuming no other internet usage. So a reasonable cap should be > 100gb? hah

Netflix 12 hours/ day?

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[beachlover333]

Didn't others report that Netflix won't work because of Mobi's deep packet inspection system and therefore throttles/blocks streaming video, making it practically useless. YouTube being the only streaming video that is an exception, so saying that works, isn't proving anything.

[skhan27]

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Didn't others report that Netflix won't work because of Mobi's deep packet inspection system and therefore throttles/blocks streaming video, making it practically useless. YouTube being the only streaming video that is an exception, so saying that works, isn't proving anything.

Idk about now, but netflix worked without any hiccups last month

[rjwells]

I don't know how you got your numbers from but you will not be consuming 2GB per hour on Mobilicity. Your best speed is 3megabits per second. 3megabits/8 is 375KBytes/sec, multiple by 60 to get per minute = 22.5 MB, multiple 60 again to get an hour = 1.350 GB. So 1.3G/hour is the most you can possibly do on Mobilicity assuming all the conditions are right.

In any case, NetFlix streams aren't that data hungry. According to the Reuters article below, it used to be about 31GB for 30 hours, so that's close to 1GB per hour. Now, it's 9GB per 30 hours, so more like 300MB per hour. Nowhere near your exaggerated 2GB per hour.


http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/...25072820110329

Do you have netfix? The bandwidth is configurable. All they are talking about in that article is that they have changed the default setting, but you can change it back yourself. If you have netflix log into your account, go to the "my accounts page", and click on "manage video quality". You can change it back to the higher bandwidth rate there, which that netflix page claims is 2.3 gigabytes per hour if you watch HD content or 1G/hr for non-HD.

I agree that you would likely not get that quality off of a mobilicity connection and I have never tried, I watch netflix via my wired internet connection, which is unlimited, from teksavvy. I was just making the point that there are "normal" things you can do, that do not appear to violate the terms of service, which would use up 1G/hr or more of bandwidth.