hothardware.com — I'm fully aware of the oxymoron in the title, because after all, how can a single stream be concurrent? It can't, and that's exactly my point. Netflix got itself in a bit of hot water a few months ago when subscribers reported the streaming service was tightening the reigns on the number of concurrent streams, enforcing a strict limit laid...
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kalvinbJan 9, 2012
What might be reasonable is limit X streams to 1 IP address per account at a time. That would allow the parents to watch something while the kids watch something else. But obviously, there's no reason to allow multiple streams to multiple IPs for a single account.
theswashbucklerJan 9, 2012
You should learn about NAT. To the world outside of the cable/DSL modem the parents and kids have only ONE IP address.
antialiasJan 9, 2012
That's pretty much exactly what the previous poster described. Netflix would allow 2, or maybe 3 streams to the one ip address that might have multiple devices, but it wouldn't allow one account to log in from 3 different IPs and stream 3 things at once.
Even if Netflix sees you streaming multiple streams from 1 IP, they still know how many devices and what they are (wii, phone, laptop, etc) that are currently streaming shows.
onedeepJan 9, 2012
What if one of the parents in that situation is on travel, and would like to watch something? That would be basically the same situation, but would not be allowed under the 1 IP rule.