We have only a hotspot ... and 5G a month (but could get more)If we want to watch a movie - order one - it will take a lot of our allowance? Is that correct? We asked this once before - but tech changes occur so fast, we're wondering if we 'download' and then watch a movie, or if the hotspot is active the entire time, and so it uses a lot of the 5G?Can someone explain exactly how the movie thing works on a hotspot? And if it's practical to watch very often on the LT or PC under these conditions - It's not worth it for one / two a month, and use all our hotspot, but if there's a way to do it effectively and efficiently, let us know.We do Red Box occasionally, but that's not always convenient, or a pain to go out daily ... especially when we camp far from towns, usually.

A movie whether streaming or download should run about 1GB per hour I have heard

If we was going to watch alot of TV SHOWs and MOVIES from the internet we would sign up for the MILLENICON NETWORK HOTSPOT that uses the 20GB MIFI unit. This uses the VERIZON NETWORK which has the best coverage across the US.My VERIZON MIFI unit is an older unit and I ran out of my 3GB dataplan just watching a few hours of downstreaming TV signals.If we just check our emails, pay bills, chat some with the kids, and do very minimal surfing of the internet the 3GB monthly Verizon Dataplan works great for us... Roy Ken

with Netflix, or Hulu, Amazon or other "STREAMING" website servicesthe video is streamed, its 'live' its Not downloadedwith Amazon you can choose SD or HD, SD uses less dataNetflix will let you set it your preferences/settings, so if you choose lower quality it uses less dataalso if your connection is slow, netflix will automatically reduce to a lower setting, to keep the movie streaming, and do as little 'buffering' as possibleamazon and redbox will let you 'buy' a moviea buy is downloaded to your device/pcstreaming subscriptions like netflix are continuous streams watched live, not downloaded,and yes 5 gigs is not much, 2 or 3 movies will use most if NOT all of it

MrWizard wrote:with Netflix, or Hulu, Amazon or other "STREAMING" website servicesthe video is streamed, its 'live' its Not downloadedwith Amazon you can choose SD or HD, SD uses less dataNetflix will let you set it your preferences/settings, so if you choose lower quality it uses less dataalso if your connection is slow, netflix will automatically reduce to a lower setting, to keep the movie streaming, and do as little 'buffering' as possibleamazon and redbox will let you 'buy' a moviea buy is downloaded to your device/pcstreaming subscriptions like netflix are continuous streams watched live, not downloaded,and yes 5 gigs is not much, 2 or 3 movies will use most if NOT all of itYes, thanks WIZARD. That's what we thought ... but things change so often, just need to check it occasionally.

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docj
Explorer
Jan 12, 2014
MrWizard wrote:
with Netflix, or Hulu, Amazon or other "STREAMING" website services

the video is streamed, its 'live' its Not downloaded
with Amazon you can choose SD or HD, SD uses less data

Netflix will let you set it your preferences/settings, so if you choose lower quality it uses less data
also if your connection is slow, netflix will automatically reduce to a lower setting, to keep the movie streaming, and do as little 'buffering' as possible

amazon and redbox will let you 'buy' a movie
a buy is downloaded to your device/pc
streaming subscriptions like netflix are continuous streams watched live, not downloaded,

and yes 5 gigs is not much, 2 or 3 movies will use most if NOT all of it

We stream a lot of video and have found that with Netflix our actual usage is more like 1GB/2hrs which means that a movie is roughly a GB. Quite a bit of Netflix content does not stream in HD regardless of your account settings. We watch a lot of foreign crime series and most of them appear to have been filmed in SD.
monkey44
Nomad II
Jan 12, 2014
MrWizard wrote:
with Netflix, or Hulu, Amazon or other "STREAMING" website services

the video is streamed, its 'live' its Not downloaded
with Amazon you can choose SD or HD, SD uses less data

Netflix will let you set it your preferences/settings, so if you choose lower quality it uses less data
also if your connection is slow, netflix will automatically reduce to a lower setting, to keep the movie streaming, and do as little 'buffering' as possible

amazon and redbox will let you 'buy' a movie
a buy is downloaded to your device/pc
streaming subscriptions like netflix are continuous streams watched live, not downloaded,

and yes 5 gigs is not much, 2 or 3 movies will use most if NOT all of it

Yes, thanks WIZARD. That's what we thought ... but things change so often, just need to check it occasionally.
MrWizard
Moderator
Jan 12, 2014
with Netflix, or Hulu, Amazon or other "STREAMING" website services

the video is streamed, its 'live' its Not downloaded
with Amazon you can choose SD or HD, SD uses less data

Netflix will let you set it your preferences/settings, so if you choose lower quality it uses less data
also if your connection is slow, netflix will automatically reduce to a lower setting, to keep the movie streaming, and do as little 'buffering' as possible

amazon and redbox will let you 'buy' a movie
a buy is downloaded to your device/pc
streaming subscriptions like netflix are continuous streams watched live, not downloaded,

and yes 5 gigs is not much, 2 or 3 movies will use most if NOT all of it
RoyB
Explorer II
Jan 12, 2014
OOPS
RoyB
Explorer II
Jan 12, 2014
If we was going to watch alot of TV SHOWs and MOVIES from the internet we would sign up for the MILLENICON NETWORK HOTSPOT that uses the 20GB MIFI unit. This uses the VERIZON NETWORK which has the best coverage across the US.

My VERIZON MIFI unit is an older unit and I ran out of my 3GB dataplan just watching a few hours of downstreaming TV signals.

If we just check our emails, pay bills, chat some with the kids, and do very minimal surfing of the internet the 3GB monthly Verizon Dataplan works great for us...

Roy Ken
Ka_Ron
Explorer
Jan 12, 2014
A movie whether streaming or download should run about 1GB per hour I have heard

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