streaming tv usage toward 250gb/mo comcast cap?

[goodmanx]

we're considering dropping our dish subscription and getting our tv, which we watch nightly, from internet streams. we generally watch movies and mini-series (treme, game of thrones, sci-fi stuff, etc.)

does anyone have experience with how close doing so will bring us to comcast's 250 gb/month cap? if so, please tell me whether you're coming close to or exceeding the cap, what happens when yhou do exceed the cap and how the whole streaming tv solution is working for you.

my understanding is that going past the cap for a few consecutive months will result in a call from comcast telling us to back it down and if we fail to do so, then comcast will cancel our service. can anyone confirm or refute this?

[freeradical]

I was finally able to access this usage information a couple of months ago, and you'd have to try real hard to hit your 250 GB limit. Netflix streaming looks like about 1 GB per hour. However, since your not seeing any commercials, a half hour show would come out to about 20-22 minutes of streaming time.

[Jimmypoo]

You can see your monthly levels online at Comcast.

I've never gone over 35GB, much to my surprise.

[graylocks]

last november and december my son was streaming netflix for hours on end in the evenings. we maybe reached 60GB those months.

Edit: OTOH, i just checked and we're up to 103GB for this billing period! perhaps my son will slack off now that he's watched every episode of Top Gear. at any rate, i've pointed this out to him and told him to cut back as we're only halfway through the billing cycle.

[Jimmypoo]

It's porn. Not Top Gear.

[graylocks]

Jimmypoo wrote:
It's porn. Not Top Gear.

oh. maybe he's watching "Topless Gear."

[silvarios]

I hit 108 GB last month. I'm sure Netflix and Amazon streaming accounts for quite a bit of that total.

Netflix now allows you to adjust the streaming quality from your account page. I selected "Good". Now I use less data (less rebuffering as well for the times my connection speeds fluctuate). Quality is not as nice, but good enough for the shows my daughter wants to watch.