Student/family plans for streaming

[boyse7en]

With one child heading off to university, and the other heading off to residential college, I'm trying to work out the best (ie cheapest) way of letting them watch some streaming content on their phones or laptops while they are living away from home.

Amazon seems to do a "Family Plan", but it says that "To share benefits, you and your invitee must live together at the same primary residential address."
Disney+ allows you to "add a member", but at £3.99 per month its only £1 cheaper than having their own subscription
Netflix doesn't seem to allow anyone outside of your house to use it.

Anyone got any experience of what the best way is to get some or all of these onto the kids' machines without it costing the earth? We are already going to be financially stretched sending them away.

[98elise]

boyse7en said:

With one child heading off to university, and the other heading off to residential college, I'm trying to work out the best (ie cheapest) way of letting them watch some streaming content on their phones or laptops while they are living away from home.

Amazon seems to do a "Family Plan", but it says that "To share benefits, you and your invitee must live together at the same primary residential address."
Disney+ allows you to "add a member", but at £3.99 per month its only £1 cheaper than having their own subscription
Netflix doesn't seem to allow anyone outside of your house to use it.

Anyone got any experience of what the best way is to get some or all of these onto the kids' machines without it costing the earth? We are already going to be financially stretched sending them away.

Netflix does allow additional users outside your main home (at a cost). We added my mother to our plan

[kiethton]

Don't rely too much on the same address point, when at university my "primary address" didn't change - started registered to vote, had all my post etc going home even though I was likely away for 70% of the year.

Other one is Sky-Go, share the login from your sky account if you have one and they can watch TV anywhere/cast to a TV

[98elise]

kiethton said:

Don't rely too much on the same address point, when at university my "primary address" didn't change - started registered to vote, had all my post etc going home even though I was likely away for 70% of the year.

Other one is Sky-Go, share the login from your sky account if you have one and they can watch TV anywhere/cast to a TV

I don't think you can cast sky

[Mammasaid]

98elise said:

kiethton said:

Don't rely too much on the same address point, when at university my "primary address" didn't change - started registered to vote, had all my post etc going home even though I was likely away for 70% of the year.

Other one is Sky-Go, share the login from your sky account if you have one and they can watch TV anywhere/cast to a TV

I don't think you can cast sky

Nope, but that's where your Xbox/PS comes in handy.

[Mr Whippy]

VPN in to home, and 'watch' them via the home connection?

Lots of routers do support that, or a relatively cheap device can add it in.

Then you can also use lots of other services as if you were at home too.