eircom to start charging for breaking caps

tuxy

i just got my phone bill today and there was a little note in the corner saying eircom will soon be implementing a billing system that will allow them to charge people who break the download allowance
don't worry just yet they said they will contact each customer before it comes into place

lets hope eircom are as incompetent with implementing this as they have been with other things :P

sprogman

What traffic will they use to determine what breaks the CAP - http, FTP file sharing (all two thousand protocols been used at the moment ) ?
Good luck to them..... :cool:

All traffic.
They won't do it on a protocol level they'll more likely just measure the raw bytes that are sent to and from your connection.

sprogman

God I pity online gamers....

Kind of defeats the purpose of broadband... :rolleyes:

Xcellor

Online gaming uses remarkably little bandwidth. Did about 60+ hours last month not even up to 5 gig usage and besides I had downloaded a loada stuff too...

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sprogman

Just wondering - what tool did you use to measure your bandwidth ?

Only 60 hours ???

Gonzo

i did about 40+ hours last month, downloaded about 6 game demos from jolt. downloaded albums and a movie along with other bits and piceces and all my surfing came to 4.9gb out of my 8gb.

Xcellor

No tool. IOL usage calculator started working after I complained...

Oh and I forgot to mention two computers on my network regularly play online games so it's 60 + whatever my brother did which was probably the same...

If all you use the net for is online gaming even 4 gigs a month is sufficient... (unless you play 24 hours/7 days a week, dont eat, sleep, crap etc...)

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ando

Originally posted by sprogman
God I pity online gamers....

Kind of defeats the purpose of broadband... :rolleyes:

Most games only use up about 5KBps. After a game of COD, if I look at my Dumeter record, its hardly registers the bandwidth used

daveyjoe

Originally posted by ando
Most games only use up about 5KBps. After a game of COD, if I look at my Dumeter record, its hardly registers the bandwidth used

Maybe, but Counter-strike can be pretty heavy if there are 16+ other people on the server (especially if they are using microphones), CS averages out at 25-40KBps for me.

nobodythere

How can you tell how much bandwidth a certain game uses?

Mutant_Fruit

daveyjoe wrote:

Maybe, but Counter-strike can be pretty heavy if there are 16+ other people on the server (especially if they are using microphones), CS averages out at 25-40KBps for me.

Yeah, but thats only 3-5 Kilobytes a second, which is quite little. You got your kilobits and kilobytes mixed up there

Syth

grasshopa wrote:

How can you tell how much bandwidth a certain game uses?

Well one way would be to get a little programme that will measure how much you send and recieve, I'm using Linux and I use Gkrellm,. It will measure and record my usage. The game for about a hour or so and see how much it's gone up by, then divind that by the amount of time you gamed.

Winters

daveyjoe wrote:

Maybe, but Counter-strike can be pretty heavy if there are 16+ other people on the server

Try Battlefield on a 64man server. Or, Battlefield 2 on 100 man servers next year .... Bandwidth fun.

[edit]You could try DU Meter or some such to monitor your bandwidth. Google and you shall find.

jonski

15th of september and I am already at 2.58 gigs up and 758MB down , and thats just mail , forums , TS and games playing . Have already started to limit my use of TS , which I used to normally leave on for most of the night while I was on .

Moriarty

I (honestly) hate to say I told you so, but, well..

Cabaal

Moriarty wrote:

I (honestly) hate to say I told you so, but, well..

dam you beat me to it

kencleary

Sorry n00b question here but how do I check my total amount dowloaded/uploaded per month on Eircom broadband. I'm mightily tempted by Ghost in the Shell 2 but at over 1GB in size............

nobodythere

http://dsl-support.eircom.net

See the user and pass box on the right hand side.

jonski

Moriarty wrote:

I (honestly) hate to say I told you so, but, well..

Silly old me , had my Du meter set up wrong .

as of today I have only used up 35% of my cap ....so happy days !

jonski

grasshopa wrote:

http://dsl-support.eircom.net

See the user and pass box on the right hand side.

or

http://dslstats.eircom.net/

is the one I use now .