Does Anytime eat bandwith?

[texdangerfield]

Hello everyone! New poster :P

I've had Sky Anytime + now running for about three weeks, it's really only my grandfather that uses Sky mostly, but I use the Sky Player on the xbox among other things (I have Sky Unlimted) but for the past three weeks I noticed slow speeds on everything from pc gaming to sky player streaming. Either way connection in games was always slow and sky player always struggled to load films efficiently. I unplugged Sky Anytime+ and it's now reverted back to having only the small on demand content, but now, speeds everywhere else have improved. Has anyone had this problem with Sky+ or am I maybe overlooking something else?

[GSMGuy]

Anytime+ will use bandwidth, and a fair chunk of it too...

Mike

[Isitme]

Check that Granddad is using it correctly. It is easy to make a mistake and end up downloading several programs. These will queue up and use bandwidth until the downloads complete. If he wants to download a lot of programs, suggest he does it overnight or when the internet is not being used.

[nige1983]

Yeah as isitime says when going into anytime plus and searching for something you can quite easily start downloading something without realising this and if you search a fre pages grandad could have been downloading several films. Did it myslef when first using it.