How Much Bandwidth Does Netflix Use?

How much bandwidth does Netflix use, you ask?  Well, let’s just say – a lot.

Netflix is the consumes the most bandwidth on the Internet and it can be a pain in the neck for many ISP’s.  Netflix Canada offers 3 different streaming qualities to conserve bandwidth for the user – which is nice if you’re with an ISP that sucks.

Netflix movie qualities come in these flavors: good (up to .3 GB per hour), better (up to .7 GB per hour) and best (up to 1 GB per hour) quality.

Now the answer to the original question is the total amount of data used by Netflix is said to be around 30% of all Internet traffic!