Netflix Bandwidth Hog

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Biks666

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Hi,

As per the title I would like to limit the bandwidth that Netflix uses – My online gaming is suffering badly while the missus busy Netflixing.

I'm currently running a 10mbps DSL with an Vox fat pipe account , Streaming Netflix via PS4 (Wifi)

Running the connection through a server is probl inevitable but would prefer not to run more hardware chasing up electricity bills.

Any ideas would be appreciated.
 
You can drop the qaulity in your netflix settings but this sounds like you should rather google "router qos gaming"
 
You can set the bandwidth profile on the Netflix account.

Go to Your Account -> My Profile -> Playback Settings.
 
Netflix pre buffers - I want to limit the actual connection to say 8mbps for Netflix and 2mbps for gaming.

I've contacted Vox regarding the limiting of the connection - "Hopefully" they can assist
 
Biks666 said:
Hi,

As per the title I would like to limit the bandwidth that Netflix uses – My online gaming is suffering badly while the missus busy Netflixing.

I'm currently running a 10mbps DSL with an Vox fat pipe account , Streaming Netflix via PS4 (Wifi)

Running the connection through a server is probl inevitable but would prefer not to run more hardware chasing up electricity bills.

Any ideas would be appreciated.
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Log onto Netflix and set the quality lower. It's not rocket science.
 
Chevron said:
Log onto Netflix and set the quality lower. It's not rocket science.
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But why would you want a lower quality movie than your line can support? Unless it's streaming at higher quality than your TV requires and downsampling or something, I'd always want the maximum quality I can get for my line.
 
cerebus said:
But why would you want a lower quality movie than your line can support? Unless it's streaming at higher quality than your TV requires and downsampling or something, I'd always want the maximum quality I can get for my line.
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Read the op.
 
Sinbad said:
Read the op.
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Yea I did, but still... it's the last thing i'd want to try. I'd rather throttle the port so that it ensured there was always some bandwidth available. not sure if that's realistic though.
 
Biks666 said:
Hi,

As per the title I would like to limit the bandwidth that Netflix uses – My online gaming is suffering badly while the missus busy Netflixing.

I'm currently running a 10mbps DSL with an Vox fat pipe account , Streaming Netflix via PS4 (Wifi)

Running the connection through a server is probl inevitable but would prefer not to run more hardware chasing up electricity bills.

Any ideas would be appreciated.
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https://help.netflix.com/en/node/87

https://help.netflix.com/en/node/306

Just set it to "high" or "medium" instead of "auto".
 
I think even if you were able to throttle Netflix to stream at an certain speed , you would still experience lag while gaming.

Probl only way around this is going for an Business DSL account , These Home capped accounts aren't the most advance out there.
 
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