Netflix Bandwidth Hog

Biks666 said:
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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Just try the free suggestion I made. Almost certain it will fix your issue.

I've only ever seen torrents affect ping. Not Netflix.
 
Chevron said:
Just try the free suggestion I made. Almost certain it will fix your issue.

I've only ever seen torrents affect ping. Not Netflix.
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Its exactly what I did and gaming was fine after that.
Been a while since I did any gaming but it worked fine for me about a year ago.
 
Even while streaming Netflix I can still download other things at a high speed...but you may have ping issues even with low bandwidth being used.

Try the quality settings as advised, if that doesn't work then tell your wife Netflix doesn't work in SA anymore :)
 
If you're willing to learn and are technically inclined can invest in a mikrotik and setup queue tree's to limit and balance bandwidth usage by mac address. We have 3 Netflix users in the house and they each get 2mb constant + burst of 4mb when they are the only ones online and have no issues streaming, pings fluctuate but not massively when playing TF2 etc.
 
lukekay said:
If you're willing to learn and are technically inclined can invest in a mikrotik and setup queue tree's to limit and balance bandwidth usage by mac address. We have 3 Netflix users in the house and they each get 2mb constant + burst of 4mb when they are the only ones online and have no issues streaming, pings fluctuate but not massively when playing TF2 etc.
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There are much easier options like pfsense out there. If your router supports custom firmware it could be an even easier option.
 
ponder said:
There are much easier options like pfsense out there. If your router supports custom firmware it could be an even easier option.
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Absolutely but that is why I specified technically inclined, routerOS is always good fun if you enjoy a more "backend feel without clutter" as opposed to a traditional web front end gui. For the size package and power cannot beat it.
 
On my 2meg WISP, I set Netflix to auto and I game with no lag. Netflix will drop and rise in quality on the Roku, but long as the wife isn't complaining. Now, if my daughter starts watching her youtube channels, while me and the wife is over utilizing the bandwith, then there's trouble. Luckily, all three on the net doesn't happen a lot.
 
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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I had the same problem, I got around it by doing the following :

1) Install Oracle VirtualBox on your PC.
2) Install XP on this VirtualPC - I assigned 256mb ram to this box.
3) Configure Internet Connection Sharing on XP
4) Install Netlimiter
5) Configure your Xbox / PS4 network settings in the same range as your new XP VM and use your XP vm's IP as gateway.
5) Expand "thrugoing" in Netlimiter and you will see your PS4's IP address.
6) Set the limitation on the PS4's ip address. - I set my xbox to 4mb/1mb (enough for 480p viewing)

You also might want to connect all other devices to this gateway and set their limitations as well, giving you the priority you need for gaming.
 
lukekay said:
If you're willing to learn and are technically inclined can invest in a mikrotik and setup queue tree's to limit and balance bandwidth usage by mac address. We have 3 Netflix users in the house and they each get 2mb constant + burst of 4mb when they are the only ones online and have no issues streaming, pings fluctuate but not massively when playing TF2 etc.
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Thank you , Could you please provide more info regarding model etc.

http://www.miro.co.za/
 
Biks666 said:
Thank you , Could you please provide more info regarding model etc.

http://www.miro.co.za/
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Sure thing! PM me your skype details so we can discuss further will be able to recommend hardware according to your current setup.

I will post the configuration here for anyone who wants to know the routerOS setup for getting the mac address and then applying it to a queue tree for throttling etc.
 
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