Netflix

KZNSeagull said:

Netflix are doing a free trial for a month here, so thought we may give it a go. Only problem is our internet connection is shite. Can you download from Netflix and watch offline? If not, any other similar services that are worth looking at?

Thanks!

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KZNSeagull said:

Netflix are doing a free trial for a month here, so thought we may give it a go. Only problem is our internet connection is shite. Can you download from Netflix and watch offline? If not, any other similar services that are worth looking at?

Thanks!

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KZNSeagull said:

Netflix are doing a free trial for a month here, so thought we may give it a go. Only problem is our internet connection is shite. Can you download from Netflix and watch offline? If not, any other similar services that are worth looking at?

Thanks!

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KZNSeagull said:

Netflix are doing a free trial for a month here, so thought we may give it a go. Only problem is our internet connection is shite. Can you download from Netflix and watch offline? If not, any other similar services that are worth looking at?

Thanks!

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Bozza said:

No, Netflix doesn't allow that. However, Netflix is very clever at optimising the bandwidth it has available so I'd give the free trial a go and see.

Amazon Prime Video does permit downloading some (not all) content for offline viewing, in the UK at least.

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Seagull58 said:

If you go ahead with this please let me know how it goes. I've got iBurst through a wireless router, 50GB per month (way, way more than I use).

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KZNSeagull said:

Yes, will do. Have you got a decent speed there then? I suppose you must have. The infrastructure here is so terrible that it is not worth upgrading - I had Telkom's fastest service for a while, then changed to their slowest service and the speed hardly changed at all! The perils of living in the sticks I guess.

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KZNSeagull said:

Yes, will do. Have you got a decent speed there then? I suppose you must have. The infrastructure here is so terrible that it is not worth upgrading - I had Telkom's fastest service for a while, then changed to their slowest service and the speed hardly changed at all! The perils of living in the sticks I guess.

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Seagull58 said:

It's about 35 to 60 kb per second when downloading. Took me14 hours to download and install Windows 10 (1.3GB) so I would say it's not superfast!!!!!

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Seagull58 said:

I expect it'll get quite a lot faster if you pay a bribe.

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KZNSeagull said:

Blimey! Ours is faster than that. We downloaded 2 PS3 games not long ago - 16GB. Took 40 hours! MWEB uncapped, 2Mbps max speed but we don't get anything like that obviously. R199 a month with a free router. Maybe I should not complain then! Would have thought that living in Pretoria you would get much faster speeds, but then I guess you are competing with far more people.

Edit. Just calculated that 16GB download over 40 hours is a speed of about 1Mbps. That's not bad, so will give Netflix a try.

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KZNSeagull said:

Thanks. With Amazon Prime, are they free to download or are you then paying to download, as I see it gives an option of "Watch with a Prime membership" for free and then "Buy episodes or series" with a price?

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Gazwag said:

Anything that has the prime logo is free to watch online or download. You have 48 hours from when you start to watch to finish an episode or film until it's deleted. Prime also has a massive free to download music collection.

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