Check out some similar questions!

NorPlan · Jan 2, 2016, 06:11 AM

The Usual with Family & Friends visiting over Christmas & New Years.. Everyone has their Nose buried into their iPhone or iPads... My Query is Internet Useage, going on YouTube & Instagram and the Like.. And we had friends visiting from Michigan here in Eastern Ontario.. The fact that they had an American based ID & Phone Number would that have any bearing on ie: Roaming Charges and so on? Also with YouTube , if watching a YT Video and it says it's "X" number of minutes long , if one fast forwarded the YT Video , does that shorten the Viewing Time? Hoping I'm Understood? Cheers Thanks..

cdad · Jan 2, 2016, 09:48 AM

Much of what your saying really depends on how the phones are set up. If they are using your Wi-Fi then they wont be charged extra for it. If they are using cellular data then there may be an extra charge. Also skipping forward may or may not decrease the costs / data involved with watching a video as that mostly depends on how far ahead the video is being read. Your friends should look at their plan to see how and where it handles roaming.

NorPlan · Jan 2, 2016, 09:59 AM

Originally Posted by cdad

Much of what your saying really depends on how the phones are set up. If they are using your Wi-Fi then they wont be charged extra for it. If they are using cellular data then there may be an extra charge. Also skipping forward may or may not decrease the costs / data involved with watching a video as that mostly depends on how far ahead the video is being read. Your friends should look at their plan to see how and where it handles roaming.

They Logged into our WiFi Internet... As for YouTube or Instagram , going on the Premious Streming A Video can gobble up the GB's.. Was curious if Fast Forwarding the Arrow / Dott would shorten that actual time shown?

cdad · Jan 3, 2016, 08:03 AM

Maybe I wasnt clear in my post before. This is something you can see with your own eyes. On the bar there is a placement shown for where the video is currently at. If you look close there is also a header that is infront of that bar. Usually gray or other color filling up the bar. That part is called the buffer. Most videos buffer ahead so the video can run smoothly.

If you jump the video around and it has to rebuffer the data then you can end up with a total data stream of greater value then the original because it is buffering some parts twice.

If you start a movie and jump to the end then in theory the value should be smaller then if you had watched the whole movie.

I hope that makes sense now.