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CWM030's avatar
CWM030
Sophomore
3 years ago

Streaming question

I am just curious:


I am thinking about cutting the cord on Dish Network in April.

 

We upgraded to the 30 gig plan from the 20 gig on or around the 22nd and were now at 66%..  :(

 

But,  that was before I found a way to cut the consumption of data down.

 

I have now set Netflix  to use Low resolution, and the picture still looks fine, spotify on low data useage while on wifi, anything that I could change the quality on to use less data, thats what I did.

 

So I want to know, since everything is on LOW data useage, will we still be able to watch streaming video when we run out of data or will it be like

 

PLAY~~~~~~~BUFFER~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~PLAY~~~~BUFFER?

 

Thanks!

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  • maratsade's avatar
    maratsade
    Distinguished Professor IV
    3 years ago

    "since everything is on LOW data useage, will we still be able to watch streaming video when we run out of data "

     

    Most likely, no. 

    • CWM030's avatar
      CWM030
      Sophomore
      3 years ago

      Well it says for Netflix it only needs up to 3 MB to stream in standard def. Which is what believe I have each user set as now.

       

      PlutoTV it works " alright" but due to it being LIVE tv.. It does buffer at times.

       

      Liz  and GabeU  What do ya'll think?

       

      • MarkJFine's avatar
        MarkJFine
        Professor
        3 years ago

        It's the latency on satellite that causes the buffering, not the speed. Just so happens that the lower the resolution, the fewer pings are required, so latency has less of an impact. In general, the speed provided is sufficient to stream, but the latency, which is directly worsened by network congestion might not.