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Netflix comes to Canada
Benevolance:
Netflix is now available in Canada. If you have a PC, Wii or PS3, you can begin streaming video immediately. If you have an Xbox 360, you cannot. But they promise it's coming later this fall. Because the client is generic, right? Isn't that how this worked? :D
Anyway, it's going to be $8 a month for unlimited streaming. And it will be streaming only. Our ISP gives us 60gb a month bandwidth without issue, but we've exceeded it in times past and never been warned. I'm wondering if that will change with the advent of netflix in our area. In the meantime, we've hooked up an HTPC in the greatroom so it doesn't matter that the Xbox service isn't coming for a few months yet.
Edgedamage:
--- Quote from: Benevolance on September 22, 2010, 12:37:49 pm ---Netflix is now available in Canada. If you have a PC, Wii or PS3, you can begin streaming video immediately. If you have an Xbox 360, you cannot. But they promise it's coming later this fall. Because the client is generic, right? Isn't that how this worked? :D
Anyway, it's going to be $8 a month for unlimited streaming. And it will be streaming only. Our ISP gives us 60gb a month bandwidth without issue, but we've exceeded it in times past and never been warned. I'm wondering if that will change with the advent of netflix in our area. In the meantime, we've hooked up an HTPC in the greatroom so it doesn't matter that the Xbox service isn't coming for a few months yet.
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If you live in an area covered by teksavvy you can tell rogers or bell to lick your balls. Teksavvy offers 200Gb caps on cable with 10 Mbps down & 1 Mbps up for $42.95.
http://teksavvy.com/en/res-internet.asp
DSL reports gives these guys good ratings.
jamesjones626:
I'm not from Canada, but I just wanted to say netflix is so awesome.......that is all.
RayB:
Anyone know if this is a gimped version of Netflix or not?
Benevolance:
No idea if it's gimped or not, yet. I briefly browsed the database for some of the shows I wanted to catch up, but none were currently offered. I'll probably wait a month or two to see if anything interesting pops up before I order.
Teksavvy doesn't look bad, but if I upgraded to the Telus package that is the same price as the Teksavvy package, I'd get no bandwidth cap and they'd throw in an Xbox 360. :D
The thing I like is that Teksavvy actually offers additional IPs. We have a lot of computers in our house, and an extra IP or two would make it possible to play Sins of a Solar Empire online, with more than two computers from behind our router.
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