Data consumption on Netflix: Depending on the quality
The higher the resolution of the streamed content, the higher the data usage of Netflix:
- You watch movies and TV shows in low quality, the data consumption at around 300 MB per hour. You can stream per GB, so a good three hours.
- In the case of a medium Streaming quality Netflix consumes around 700 MB per hour, which corresponds to a little more than one hours per GByte.
- At high resolution, the consumption shoots in the amount of: Per hour of HD Streaming flow about 3 Gbytes of data through your line.
- In the case of UHD content, there are even significantly more, about 7 GB per hour. Therefore, you need to enable for this resolution, the unlimited Streaming separately.
- If you're Worried about your data volume, you should disable via the settings of the Auto-Play function. In order to prevent automatically the next episode is played.

Data usage of Netflix On the settings of the consumption, regulate
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Consumption of data
The data usage of Netflix, you can control in your Account settings so your mobile data volume to spare. While you could decide earlier if you want to see Videos in low, medium or high quality, allows Netflix now only a choice between a low or high data consumption.
- To do this, open the Netflix App on your Smartphone.
- In the top left, tap on the Icon with the three horizontal bars and select the "App settings".
- There tap on "Mobile data usage".
- Here you have the choice between "data", which corresponds to the medium quality (500 MByte/h), and "Maximum data usage" which allows you to Stream in the highest quality. You want to protect your data volume, you can select "wifi Only". Then you can stream it only if you are connected to a Wi-Fi network.
- Tip: you Need to worry about your data volume, select the entry "automatic". Then Netflix has always chosen the best quality that runs most of your current Internet connection on the liquid.

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