Ironically, I did this with my Usenet news feed (which back then was the big bandwidth hog) 20 years ago. Mark Lottor set it up. I understand that someone has just been granted a dubious patent on the same technique, despite the well known prior art. --Brett Glass At 08:45 AM 7/13/2014, Aled Morris wrote:

On 13 July 2014 06:39, Steven Tardy <<mailto:sjt5atra@gmail.com>sjt5atra@gmail.com> wrote: (OK, Keep 100mbps for Netflix to pre-populate, 100mbps is 30TB/month) (Now I'm curious how many GB/month Netflix pre-populates, hmmm)

Shame Netflix can't fill their appliances using really cheap, bulk, one-way satellite bandwidth which is useless for most other Internet applications. Â Then their traffic wouldn't use any of your real, paid for, transit.

Of course siting a dish would be another expense with hosting one of their boxes, but if it made the on-going costs go away...

AledÂ