Off Topic Fire stick help

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DJBlackandamberarmy(No4)

DJBlackandamberarmy(No4)

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Techophobe here, so need some assistance . I asked in Curry’s , but he looked at me like I had asked for something in basic Latin . I have just joined the 21st century and finally got broadband at home - I purchased an amazon fire stick to make my TV into a smart Tv. It is using 6gb of data a day , we do not online game and Barely watch it - we don’t download loads of films . Maybe an hour a day , and most of that is watching Mr Tumble on YouTube . Isn’t that loads? Other people have told me they game etc, and use 30/40gb a month . It is like the fire stick just constantly uses data when we are not using it . Can this be stopped? Without having to unplug it all the time , if I binned it and got an actual Smart TV will that do the same?
 
DJBlackandamberarmy(No4) said:
Techophobe here, so need some assistance . I asked in Curry’s , but he looked at me like I had asked for something in basic Latin . I have just joined the 21st century and finally got broadband at home - I purchased an amazon fire stick to make my TV into a smart Tv. It is using 6gb of data a day , we do not online game and Barely watch it - we don’t download loads of films . Maybe an hour a day , and most of that is watching Mr Tumble on YouTube . Isn’t that loads? Other people have told me they game etc, and use 30/40gb a month . It is like the fire stick just constantly uses data when we are not using it . Can this be stopped? Without having to unplug it all the time , if I binned it and got an actual Smart TV will that do the same?
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Never had that problem with my Fire Stick. Only uses data when watching something in it, About 1 gb an hour for standard TV and up to 2.5 gb for HD I believe. Are you putting it in sleep mode when not using the app, though I wouldn’t have thought it should make a great difference.
Definitely best to have an unlimited data contract if using these sort of things.
 
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I’ve turned it off yesterday to see if it was the stick - and we used 0.2gb data .... on Monday all I watched was half an hour on Netflix - and my usage was 5.5gb , so by that logic that half hour used 5.3gb- I do not put it in sleep mode , for now I am just unplugging it . Unlimited data is just only an extra 4 quid so maybe should stop been tight and pay that . <laugh>
 
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DJBlackandamberarmy(No4) said:
Techophobe here, so need some assistance . I asked in Curry’s , but he looked at me like I had asked for something in basic Latin . I have just joined the 21st century and finally got broadband at home - I purchased an amazon fire stick to make my TV into a smart Tv. It is using 6gb of data a day , we do not online game and Barely watch it - we don’t download loads of films . Maybe an hour a day , and most of that is watching Mr Tumble on YouTube . Isn’t that loads? Other people have told me they game etc, and use 30/40gb a month . It is like the fire stick just constantly uses data when we are not using it . Can this be stopped? Without having to unplug it all the time , if I binned it and got an actual Smart TV will that do the same?
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Mr Tumbles not a small fella, with all his dancing around I can magine that's your problem!
Put 'Loose Women' on it works for me, I switch it off instantly!
 
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DJBlackandamberarmy(No4) said:
I’ll post it on Not606 I thought , that’s full of helpful informative people usually I thought . Schoolboy error <laugh>
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Apparently, the Firestick comes with the movie quality set to 'best' as the default setting and that can use up to 6gb per hour, if you go into the settings and reduce the quality it streams at (you definitely don't need it on 'best' for YouTube clips), then you can reduce the data usage by up to 80%.

I can't take the credit for this, my daughter just popped round. <laugh>
 
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originallambrettaman said:
Apparently, the Firestick comes with the movie quality set to 'best' as the default setting and that can use up to 6gb per hour, if you go into the settings and reduce the quality it streams at (you definitely don't need it on 'best' for YouTube clips), then you can reduce the data usage by up to 80%.

I can't take the credit for this, my daughter just popped round. <laugh>
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or get an unlimited data contract then it doesn’t matter what setting you have it on.
I have read 2.5 and 3gb per hour in various articles but never 6.
 
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