Netflix is a provider of on demand internet streaming media and is available to users in the majority of locations all over the world. The service is becoming increasingly popular and by the end of last year had a total of 57.4 million subscribers. In parallel with this growth, we have seen a corresponding increase in the number of people questioning the impact that Netflix traffic is having on their network.

Watching Netflix can use around 1 GB of data per hour for each stream when viewing in standard definition and up to 3 GB per hour for streaming content in high definition. The ‘Internet is slow today’ could easily be as a result of a single user streaming Netflix.