How Much Internet Bandwidth Does Netflix Use In Peak Hours? 7%, 14%, 37% Or 53%?
By Germain Lussier/May 28, 2015 1:00 pm EST
So what’s even crazier than the bandwidth figures for the entire Internet? How much of it Netflix uses. A new study revealed that, at peak hours during March 2015 in North America, Netflix accounted for up to 37% of all Internet usage. That’s over a third of data flowing through the Internet. Read more below.
Variety reported on the Netflix bandwidth usage, with data which came from Sandvine, a Canadian bandwidth-management systems vendor.
So how did Sandvine get this data? They “collected from a representative cross-section of the company’s 250 service provider customers worldwide.” Of note is they reported similar data several years ago and, in 2012, Netflix accounted for 29% of Internet usage. What we can discern from that is Netflix is obviously growing, but not as much as one might think.
Even so, 37% of all internet bandwidth is staggering. It does kind of make sense when you realize of the 40 million subscribers, any time they use the service they are pretty much always streaming a huge amount of data. Even just reading this you’re barely using a fraction of a percentage of one person watching a Netflix show.
How often do you use Netflix? Do you think a number like this – over a third of internet bandwidth usage – is something that can be applied to most of the world?
