The older I get, the more my Friday nights involve watching Netflix at home with a bottle of Maker's Mark and a box of Oreos. Netflix is a big part of my life, and I'm not alone. YouTube and Netflix make up over 50% of all activity on the Internet, so it might be worth your time to understand why Netflix seems to cause so many headaches and what can be done about it.

The Mac (Apple) and Mac address are different things. The 'mac address' of your blue-ray player is a unique ID, kinda like an IP address, if you're familiar with that. Your campus IT department likely only allows specific 'mac addresses' on the internal network to keep people from sucking down bandwith without authorization.

Convert e-transcript file for mac. Go ahead and feed it some of your movies to see how well it works (you can for a week when you join Setapp, a subscription for Mac apps.) How do I convert video and music to another format?

Introduction: The Role of Your Internet Service Provider Before diving into any hacks and tricks, you should understand that your Internet Service Provider (ISP) plays a huge role in how you experience Netflix and there's not much you can do about it. I, for instance, have one of the absolute worst ISPs for streaming Netflix. For reasons I'd rather not discuss, that would be AT&T. As you can see from the monthly, various ISPs deliver different viewing speeds in megabits per second (bitrate).

AT&T rates #13 for the month of April, and an embarrassing #54 (that's out of 60) when you include smaller ISPs in the rankings. What Determines These Rankings? Most of it has to do with the connection speed you pay for, and your ISP's ability to deliver the speeds they promise. But, some of it also has to do with an ongoing feud between Netflix and a handful of popular providers, some of which are refusing to upgrade their peering connections to major backbone providers in a move to try and get an extra buck out of Netflix for a direct connection.