eircom cap

SoundWave · 09-10-2003 4:12pm #1

is eircom gonna follow suit and increase their starter pack cap to 8gb?

Cheers

Rob

spongebob · 09-10-2003 4:19pm

It will go up to a generous 6Gb in January next year when the next pricing announcement is due.

honru · 09-10-2003 5:37pm

Know this is pretty off-topic but is it possible that Eircom will remove their cap in the next year or so?

machalla · 09-10-2003 5:59pm

That seems pretty unlikely. I was told that during the initial trials of ADSL here there was no cap in place (or planned for the full product). Due to apparently insane amounts of bandwidth usage it was decided to put in place a cap to stop what they saw as abuse of the service.

This is all secondhand info by the way so it may well be wrong. Thats what I was told though. Any company removing the cap at the moment with the numbers of BB customers rising would only end up with the same problem as Netsource I would imagine.. Still if they increased it that would be good. Although theres every potential that the cap could be raised as high as you like but due to poor bandwidth rates you will never be able to reach the cap in any case.

If all everyone on RADSL is getting is 5k/sec then you could have a 100Gb for all the difference it actually makes!

honru · 09-10-2003 6:40pm

And how much would you have to download to be considered abusing the service? In other words, at what point will Eircom take action. Surely no-one yet has been billed for going over the download allowance.

machalla · 09-10-2003 9:30pm

I think abuse was classified as 5% of the users taking 95% of the bandwidth available.

They didn't expect it seems and therefore they introduced a blanket cap which they thought was adequate for the largeest group of "normal" users and which only penalised the heavy downloaders. Makes you think twice about that 100mb mpeg trailer when its going to cost you €3 to download it I suppose.

longword · 09-10-2003 10:19pm

Originally posted by f®eak_s©enery
And how much would you have to download to be considered abusing the service? In other words, at what point will Eircom take action. Surely no-one yet has been billed for going over the download allowance.

Work out how much it's possible to download in a month assuming you can do line speed 24x7. Then divide this by the contention ratio. That's 'fair' use of the service. Most of the caps these days seem to be double that value or more.

parasite · 09-10-2003 10:30pm

any more details on the next price cut, Muck ?

honru · 09-10-2003 11:47pm

Originally posted by machalla
Makes you think twice about that 100mb mpeg trailer when its going to cost you €3 to download it I suppose.

It does. It haunts me every night.

Originally posted by longword
Work out how much it's possible to download in a month assuming you can do line speed 24x7. Then divide this by the contention ratio. That's 'fair' use of the service.

Ack. I'm confused. Line Speed?

longword · 09-10-2003 11:56pm

Originally posted by f®eak_s©enery
Ack. I'm confused. Line Speed?

The maximum speed you can download at. 512Kbits/second for most.

Ripwave · 10-10-2003 9:34am

Originally posted by f®eak_s©enery
Ack. I'm confused. Line Speed? [/B]

512Kbits/s.

512K*60Secs*60Minutes*24hours*30Days/48Users.

That's 27648000Kbits. About 3GBytes per person per month (allowing for TCP/IP overhead).

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