I'm sick- also a Netflix question

[hannaugh]

Here I am, up at 5am, unable to sleep because I suddenly have a high fever and my entire body aches. 

That said, I have a random question.  Does anyone here have Netflix and have you ever maxed out your online viewing minutes?  Someone told me that there is a limit to how much you can watch, but I have never heard of this before and I'm wondering if it is a myth.

 

[AutoBat]

I watched Netflix online streaming a good chunk of the time.  There is no time limit for viewing.
IIRC Hulu.com has a limit now before Rupert Murdoch wants more money.

Sort of related: Pandora (streaming music) has a limit, but that's a licensing problem (and it's free)
somehow Last.fm doesn't have this issue

 

[back2thefutre]

netfilx only has a time limit on the 4.99 plan. other than that it is unlimited I think

 

[hannaugh]

Okay cool, that's what I thought.  Someone told me there was a limit even on the supposed "unlimited" plans that they don't tell you about, but I didn't know if that was true.  Thanks.

 

[Cagey]

Okay cool, that's what I thought.  Someone told me there was a limit even on the supposed "unlimited" plans that they don't tell you about, but I didn't know if that was true.  Thanks.

Some (most) ISPs have a limit on how much data you can transfer over a given period, say a month. For instance, with Comcast, it's 250GB/mo., and they're the most generous provider out there at this point. If you stream a lot of movies, you can hit that number pretty fast. What they'd do to at that point is not clearly defined, but if they chose to define it the most likely action would be to charge you for the overage by the MB or GB.

 

[AutoBat]

Verizon won't charge you for overages, but if you're chronically over their unpublished internal limit, they can just cut your service at their whim.
Depends how they're feeling that month really.