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| Thread ID: 56685 | 2005-04-12 10:51:00 | Are ADSL caps enforced? | sal (67) | PC World Chat |
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| 344110 | 2005-04-12 10:51:00 | If you're on a capped ADSL plan, when you go over your allowance does your ISP enforce this rule? Who's your ISP? What plan are you on? We've been on JetStream Plus, I mean Broadband ADVENTURE (jetstream.xtra.co.nz) (psh), 2mbit/10gb, for 3 months now and easily use our data allowance within the first week. Thing is we've only ever been capped for 2 days mid month (last month) and then given back full speed even though we were 70gb over. I'd hate to think how much we would be paying on an uncapped plan. Does anyone else enjoy broadband this much? |
sal (67) | ||
| 344111 | 2005-04-12 10:56:00 | Hmmm. You live in Hamilton? Me too. I've got lots of spare network cable. Can I come and join the party? :D | manicminer (4219) | ||
| 344112 | 2005-04-12 11:16:00 | I dont think their capping systems work to good but im not gonna complain last month I managed to go 16gig over my usage with no cut back on speed so it was all good. This month so far im over by 2gig and no cut back. :D | Overdrive_5000 (4950) | ||
| 344113 | 2005-04-12 13:09:00 | Wow 70GB a month and not capped, I'd be loving that! Though I'm not inclined to push my luck too far. :) I sorta wait until the last 4days or so of the billing cycle and download anything left in the que. Usually average about 14-16GB a month. I did get capped once though, did about 17GB and router disconnected. Had 2days left at 64k. |
E|im (87) | ||
| 344114 | 2005-04-12 20:10:00 | If you're on a capped ADSL plan, when you go over your allowance does your ISP enforce this rule? Who's your ISP? What plan are you on? We've been on JetStream Plus, I mean Broadband ADVENTURE (jetstream.xtra.co.nz) (psh), 2mbit/10gb, for 3 months now and easily use our data allowance within the first week. Thing is we've only ever been capped for 2 days mid month (last month) and then given back full speed even though we were 70gb over. I'd hate to think how much we would be paying on an uncapped plan. Does anyone else enjoy broadband this much? Have you thought about all the other things you could be doing with the $800 per year it is costing you. 80 GB a month - bordering on obsessive addiction in my opinion. |
Safari (3993) | ||
| 344115 | 2005-04-12 23:10:00 | Haha, lets break this down... Have you thought about all the other things you could be doing with the $800 per year it is costing you. We don't pay for it. 80 GB a month - bordering on obsessive addiction in my opinion. You don't need to be in front of the computer to rack that up... |
sal (67) | ||
| 344116 | 2005-04-13 07:26:00 | Have you thought about all the other things you could be doing with the $800 per year it is costing you. 80 GB a month - bordering on obsessive addiction in my opinion. 80 GB is easily done with a 2Mbit connection. When I got changed over from Jetstart (128k was a joke) to Bitstream (256k isn't much better) I had pure broadband bliss for about 3 days. Fantastic 200kbyte/sec downloads...I think I racked up 20GB alone just on bittorrent. So fast I couldn't keep up with queuing up new torrents. I have a feeling Xtra (which is Telecom, of course) are a bit lax on the capping. But when it comes to wholesale, you generally don't get so lucky. One set of rules for Telecom customers, another set of rules for wholesale customers. |
manicminer (4219) | ||
| 344117 | 2005-04-13 08:03:00 | Hi there I'm on jetstream whatever (they change the name so much its hard to keep up) 3gig cap. If I go over there dosen't seem to be any throttle back till I over-shoot by about 20%. Cheers |
craigb (4884) | ||
| 344118 | 2005-04-15 02:50:00 | We use Xtra Jetstream 600 (fullspeed) at work and I can assure you that Xtra charge for every mb over 600. :annoyed: | Winston001 (3612) | ||
| 344119 | 2005-04-16 10:06:00 | Unless you are on a UBS plan, it's not the ISP that does the capping it's Telecom. Yes Telecom cap. Yes they enforce it. Sometimes within a few GB of hitting your cap, sometimes with 50 or 60 GB of your cap - it seems to vary. As for UBS based ISP's that will be dependent on their internal setup. I wish people could differentiate between an ISP and Telecom :groan: |
ninja (1671) | ||
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