17 meg Broadband

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My daughter has just moved out to her own rental , and needs BB internet, to keep costs down we are looking at suppliers(Plusnet, BT, etc ) using basic phone line connection giving 17meg
She mainly will be doing online banking and basic Googling , she is happy with Freeview but wants to use Netflix , research suggests Netflix needs 5meg minimum .
Any of you surviving on 17meg , is it enough for streaming Netflix

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paulrockliffe said:

I have 17mb/s, but consistently hit 19 and have few issues with streaming in HD.

Thanks for that, trouble is I am spoilt with 50+meg ,so had no idea of how slower connections perform

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Thanks for input
Daughter has now signed with BT on 17 meg broadband , they are forcasting 4-8 meg so should be ok , could always upgrade to fibre if it proves to be too slow
One additional benefit is being able to use BT hot spots whilst out and about .

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Well , that went well, NOT !
In 3 days my daughter exceeded her 17meg ( missed that gem when we signed up )download limit , then in 3 hrs she ( or the system )added another 10 meg , they want to charge £1.5 per meg over the limit
considering she was told she would have a connection speed of less than 8 meg . these data quantities would mean she was on the net 24/7 and watching films all the time , with work 8-1530 and a small child , when would she have the chance Well
She has not watched any films , downloaded any large data packets , taken part in any on line games .
It looks like the key for the hub may have been cracked , so it has been re passworded
BTs response YOU MUST have done it our equipment never lies
Cancellation in the post / email

Edited by MX51ROD on Tuesday 24th May 16:51

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Rutter said:

MX51ROD said:

Well , that went well, NOT !
In 3 days my daughter exceeded her 17meg ( missed that gem when we signed up )download limit , then in 3 hrs she ( or the system )added another 10 meg , they want to charge £1.5 per meg over the limit
considering she was told she would have a connection speed of less that 8 meg . these data quantities would mean she was on the net 24/7 and watching films all the time , with work 8-1530 and a small child , when would she have the chance
She has not watched any films , downloaded any large data packets , taken part in any on line games .
It looks like the key for the hub may have been cracked , so it has been re passworded
BTs responce YOU MUST have done it our equipment never lies
Cancellarion in the post / email

What was the limit? If it was the standard 12GB then that could easily be over that limit if she was bingeing on netflix.

Damm should have run it through spell check before posting

Either 12 or 17meg cant remember , but She had only just moved into her new house so had no time to watch a lot of TV .only net usage was setting up banking etc , and a few emails

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just to clarify , Daughter was on the cheapest package , and within 3 days , with little usage of the internet , had exceeded her monthly allowance ,and got the heads up warning , and later ,in 3 or so hours of usage had racked up a further 10gb of data
all this on an up to 8meg connection .
Cancelled BT and signed Virgin , same as me . £50 each bonus and 50meg unlimited , TiVo box and free calls weekend