Data usage with firestick

[Mad dog]

YouTube seems to use hardly any data I've found, lots on there!

 

[MikenPauline]

Oh but it does.

Watched it in France in September and have been watching it in Spain these last few weeks.

Were you using a sim bought in the UK?

 

[BikerGraham]

Were you using a sim bought in the UK?

Al U.K. accounts

 

[MikenPauline]

Al U.K. accounts

That’s why you could get iPlayer, it thinks you are still in the UK, if you get a foreign sim it won’t let you watch anything.

 

[BikerGraham]

That’s why you could get iPlayer, it thinks you are still in the UK, if you get a foreign sim it won’t let you watch anything.

Yes I know.

Have you read the posts or not ?

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[busby]

That’s why you could get iPlayer, it thinks you are still in the UK, if you get a foreign sim it won’t let you watch anything.

True you need a VPN,,BUSBY.

 

[Brian + Dawn]

Just checked ITVx and it doesn't have any data saving options. If any of you feel like contacting their support, ( itvxhelp@itv.com ), if enough people ask for it, they might add it as an option

 

[Manic]

I did a test using my Firestick last night, watched 1hour of bbc iPlayer , 0.9gb set at standard def and 1hour of ITVx , 3gb with no option to change, also it somet stops after ads, so I won’t be watching.

 

[Manic]

I did a test using my Firestick last night, watched 1hour of bbc iPlayer , 0.9gb set at standard def and 1hour of ITVx , 3gb with no option to change, also it somet stops after ads, so I won’t be watching.
I could be using my dome but that decided not to lock on to satellite, so like an idiot I‘am I thought I will reset my freesat box, just to see if that’s the problem but that won’t let me log in until the dome is locked onto satellit. So know I have to wait till I find someone with a fixed satellite that can connect my freesat box to to get that running and then get the dome sorted

Ps i don’t know why this post went twice, I hadn’t finished and the one above postedbut that just how things are going for me at the moment

 

[Hugoman]

I did a test using my Firestick last night, watched 1hour of bbc iPlayer , 0.9gb set at standard def and 1hour of ITVx , 3gb with no option to change, also it somet stops after ads, so I won’t be watching.

That’s a bit worrying…tested my ITV and it was using 640mb an hour…haven’t tested ITVx . Yes it often stops around adverts. They are probably trying to make us purchase the ad free version. Not much on ITVx anyway …just won’t watch it. Needed it for the six Nations Rugby England/France a few weeks ago….wish I hadn’t bothered !

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[Ditcha]

I did a test using my Firestick last night, watched 1hour of bbc iPlayer , 0.9gb set at standard def and 1hour of ITVx , 3gb with no option to change, also it somet stops after ads, so I won’t be watching.
I could be using my dome but that decided not to lock on to satellite, so like an idiot I‘am I thought I will reset my freesat box, just to see if that’s the problem but that won’t let me log in until the dome is locked onto satellit. So know I have to wait till I find someone with a fixed satellite that can connect my freesat box to to get that running and then get the dome sorted

Ps i don’t know why this post went twice, I hadn’t finished and the one above postedbut that just how things are going for me at the moment

I bet you 2GB of that was advertising

 

[Mad dog]

Try watching things on YouTube, it uses a fraction of the bandwidth.

 

[Hugoman]

Try watching things on YouTube, it uses a fraction of the bandwidth.

Do you mean like videos of cats playing the piano

 

[Mad dog]

Do you mean like videos of cats playing the piano

Lol! Lots of old series on there, we were down in the Ardèche last year. Do you remember Nigel & Nippy - A Place in France? We were that way on, so replayed several series of them, data usage was minimal & quality acceptable.

 

[Hugoman]

Lol! Lots of old series on there, we were down in the Ardèche last year. Do you remember Nigel & Nippy - A Place in France? We were that way on, so replayed several series of them, data usage was minimal & quality acceptable.

I do actually… vaguely.. Nigel Farrel…he died quite young …58..of Pancreatic Cancer. Sorry to put a downer on it …but he lives on on YouTube…obviously

Whenever I go onto it I search for something…start watching it then find out it’s a 3 minute clip of it…then spend half an hour trying to find the full program before giving up…. “No going back “ (a series about moving abroad )..a case in point…

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