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Question from Heila G.: Rick, my hubby and I are preparing to go on a six month mission trip to Peru and we don’t want to keep paying for Netflix while we’re gone since we won’t be using it.
Will Netflix allow us to suspend our account for the six month period that we’ll be gone, or will we have to cancel the account and open a new one when we get back? I hope we don’t have to cancel because we’ll lose all of our preferences and stuff.
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If you use Netflix, you have most likely noticed a new feature called “Private Recommendations”. It allows your friends to privately send you recommendations for movies and TV shows to watch on Netflix.
Some users love the new “Private Recommendations” feature, and others hate it. The rest simply ignore it.
If you receive a ton of recommendations and find them annoying, you can easily disable the Private Recommendations feature. Here’s how: [Read more…]
Question from Dianne J.: Hi Rick. I hope you can help me with a problem I have with my ex-boyfriend. We split up a couple of days ago and he’s still using my Netflix account.
I changed the password, but it appears that he’s still logged in and watching stuff. How can I log him out of my Netflix account for good?
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Question from Heather E.: Hi Rick. I hope you can help me out with the answer to a question that’s been bugging me for a while.
The download speed for my Internet connection is supposed to be 30 Mbps. When I check it with Speedtest.net like you suggested in one of your previous posts, it almost always says it’s running around 28 Mbps. I can live with that.
But when my boyfriend is watching a movie on Netflix (he does it every night), Speedtest.net says I’m only getting around 6 Mbps. Is this normal? I know that Netflix uses a lot of bandwidth, but that seems excessive to me.
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If you’re a Netflix subscriber, you might have noticed that when you reach the end of an episode of a television show the next episode in the series begins playing automatically. Whether or not this happens for you will depend on your Netflix settings.
Some people love this “Post-Play” feature, but others hate it. If you fall into the latter camp, it’s easy to disable Post-Play to prevent the next episode in a series from playing until you want it to. Here’s how: [Read more…]