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Ciaran500

This happen to anyone else? A combination of two weeks off for Easter, a news group subscription and lots of different Linux ISO's has left me a little (:D) over the 30gb limit and I've been limited to about 12kB/s up and down.

First I've heard of this happening to anyone so thought people would be interested.

Little-Devil

Ciaran500 wrote: »

This happen to anyone else? A combination of two weeks off for Easter, a news group subscription and lots of different Linux ISO's has left me a little (:D) over the 30gb limit and I've been limited to about 12kB/s up and down.

First I've heard of this happening to anyone so thought people would be interested.

You should have checked this form before posting another thread, its old new at this stage.

Ciaran500

Little-Devil wrote: »

You should have checked this form before posting another thread, its old new at this stage.

Where? Its not in the FAQ and I can't see it on a search.

BlackWizard

This is news to me and I frequently visit this forum

How long has this been going on and how much over the limit does a person have to go before they get limited?

Also whats the speed limited to?

Little-Devil

BlackWizard wrote: »

This is news to me and I frequently visit this forum

How long has this been going on and how much over the limit does a person have to go before they get limited?

Also whats the speed limited to?

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055253424&page=4

I first read about this late friday evening. I'm not sure if its just BT users going over or hitting 100G limit or there CAP in general getting throttled, but from what i have read and the OP above printscreen it seems or looks like 100G and you've had it.

Ciaran500

Little-Devil wrote: »

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055253424&page=4

I first read about this late friday evening.

Sorry, didn't realise it such "old news" :rolleyes:

Little-Devil

Ciaran500 wrote: »

Sorry, didn't realise it such "old news" :rolleyes:

Its a bit like fridays paper, old news. I hope you don't download 100G every month otherwise i would think that throttling will be a permanent fixture on your account

Ciaran500

Nah, first time I've ever got near that. Bad timing really, does BT use a calender month or will I be waiting longer for the usage to reset?

challengemaster

Ciaran500 wrote: »

I've been limited to about 12kB/s up and down.

That's normally what I get anyway must suck for dl though, ouch!

Little-Devil

Ciaran500 wrote: »

Nah, first time I've ever got near that. Bad timing really, does BT use a calender month or will I be waiting longer for the usage to reset?

I'm with eircom so don't know myself. I think in total i've read including your post about five others who downloaded that amount. My mate is with BT and he went over his 30G by over 2Gbs and its not throttled.

If your account limit is 30G and you have gone over by 70gbs then how long will the wait before they lift that throttle on your account? I would be calling or sending a e-mail if i was you, they could wait until it balances itself out in a few months.

challengemaster

I wouldn't bother with calling - unless he wants to be charged for it aswell.
Happened to someone I know aswell, called up about it and was told by whoever answered just to leave it alone for a few days (was near end of the month) as otherwise if he complained, he might end up with a bill for overuse.

Ciaran500

Little-Devil wrote: »

If your account limit is 30G and you have gone over by 70gbs then how long will the wait before they lift that throttle on your account? I would be calling or sending a e-mail if i was you, they could wait until it balances itself out in a few months.

I'll wait the last few days out before I ring, if they tell me it'll be like this for the next month or two I'll be cancelling the account there and then.

Little-Devil

Ciaran500 wrote: »

I'll wait the last few days out before I ring, if they tell me it'll be like this for the next month or two I'll be cancelling the account there and then.

I wonder what they charge if you go over? it could prove to be an expensive mistake, keep an eye out for your next bill

jor el

Ciaran500 wrote: »

I'll wait the last few days out before I ring, if they tell me it'll be like this for the next month or two I'll be cancelling the account there and then.

BT's caps are done on a calendar month, so come Tuesday you'll be back up and running.

Turbodreams

not trying to be nosey here but how in the name of **** did you download 112gb in 30days???

AlmightyCushion

Turbodreams wrote: »

not trying to be nosey here but how in the name of **** did you download 112gb in 30days???

Porn. Lots and lots of porn.

Turbodreams

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

Porn. Lots and lots of porn.

haha! say hes got some handshake!

Placebo

what these nerds ever stop going over 100G's so quickly, stop downloading ever damn thing you see useful. At this rate they will definatley enforce payment for over use.

link to usage status page btw.?

Jonathan

Anybody else's stats page broken? Mine has been like it is below since October 2007

JohnC.

Mine has been like that since October too.

Jonathan

Kahless wrote: »

Mine has been like that since October too.

Perhaps we can download all we want as we aren't being monitored

Jonathan

Placebo wrote: »

link to usage status page btw.?

Linky

Ciaran500

Placebo wrote: »

what these nerds ever stop going over 100G's so quickly, stop downloading ever damn thing you see useful. At this rate they will definatley enforce payment for over use.

I don't download things for months then I subscribe to a newshost and catch up.

L31mr0d

c*ck :mad:



I'll admit it, BT just owned my ass. Man I should really think first before deciding to collect every linux distro ever released

http://leimrod.justgotowned.com/

^ what I find even more funny is that I don't even have the bandwidth to display that page without waiting for eternity for it to load.



woohoo! my download limit beats the OP's

Placebo

Ciaran500 you are pardoned

i cant remember my pass so cant check

L31mr0d

Placebo wrote: »

Ciaran500 you are pardoned

i cant remember my pass so cant check

your pass is your username... they run a really secure outfit that BT I tells ya :rolleyes: your username is your login with the @btbb dropped.

jor el

L31mr0d wrote: »

your pass is your username... they run a really secure outfit that BT I tells ya :rolleyes: your username is your login with the @btbb dropped.

Really? When I was with BT I had a separate username and password, they weren't the same at all.

Jonathan

L31mr0d wrote: »

c*ck :mad:



I'll admit it, BT just owned my ass. Man I should really think first before deciding to collect every linux distro ever released

http://leimrod.justgotowned.com/

^ what I find even more funny is that I don't even have the bandwidth to display that page without waiting for eternity for it to load.



woohoo! my download limit beats the OP's

Make sure you set boards to use the mobile skin.
Might shave a few mins off the load time for each page

L31mr0d

jor el wrote: »

Really? When I was with BT I had a separate username and password, they weren't the same at all.

I've set up BT BB for a few people, including myself and the provided details have always been: user: xxxx@btbb, pass: xxxx. For checking usage the username has the @btbb dropped.

jmccrohan wrote: »

Make sure you set boards to use the mobile skin.
Might shave a few mins off the load time for each page

*sniff* It feels like i'm back in 1999... ah the nostalga. Now to make another few posts and get myself a cup of tea before my 1 minute youtube video loads

Praetor

Jmccrohan and Kahless call tech support and ask them to fix that for you, maybe if you are lucky....

oh and dont bother waiting for the 1st of the month to be unthrottled this time it seems to work in a different way... but its only a guess, they only thing they do is reset the counters every 1 at 00.01 but I have the impression that this wont lift the barr...

god's toy

jmccrohan wrote: »

Anybody else's stats page broken? Mine has been like it is below since October 2007

Yep here too, Tue Oct 2 was my last log in, so they say...

:pac:

Jonathan

god's toy wrote: »

Yep here too, Tue Oct 2 was my last log in, so they say...:pac:

jor el wrote: »

Really? When I was with BT I had a separate username and password, they weren't the same at all.

L31mr0d wrote: »

your pass is your username... they run a really secure outfit that BT I tells ya :rolleyes: your username is your login with the @btbb dropped.

By any chance god's toy do you have a separate username and password? I have and was wondering is the stats page only working for those that have the same username and password?

god's toy

Yep my username is NOT the same as my password.


Could have something there...

Jonathan

god's toy wrote: »

Yep my username is NOT the same as my password.


Could have something there...

Woo!!

I feel like a detective :pac::pac:

zilog_jones

My stats page was broken for over a year but decided to work again in the last few months. We got broadband when it was still IOL (late 2004), and we have a password different to our username (might have been done over the phone - I forget).

I have the "You have exceeded your download limit for this month!" warning (25GB down - cap is 20GB), but I'm not being throttled and never have been (this is the most I've ever gone over though... well when the thing's working). So maybe somewhere around 100GB is their "real" cap?

kaimera

Jaysus lads, you guys on the LLU product by chance?

I know I've gone right thru the supposed 30gig cap but 100gigs in a month I haven't got close to. Barely touched 150gigs total tbh.

Least I know they throttle. Let us know if ya get charged as well. kthxbye

Splinter

jsut checked and iv downloaded 19.95gbs this month

TerrorFirmer

Just checked mine there (my password was my username as well), at 60g so far so not too bad actually, downloaded about 30 of that in the past 2 or 3 days....most of it will be done tonight so won't really be using much next month. I would go insane if I was throttled to 12k/12k...

Placebo

mines not the same as my username either

plus my username is still @iolbb not that new btbb

L31mr0d

kaimera wrote: »

Jaysus lads, you guys on the LLU product by chance?

I know I've gone right thru the supposed 30gig cap but 100gigs in a month I haven't got close to. Barely touched 150gigs total tbh.

Least I know they throttle. Let us know if ya get charged as well. kthxbye

yeah i'm on the LLU product. Whats odd is that even when I was on my 2Mb line my monthly usage was about the same as now. I just left my PC on for a lot longer. So methinks there is something else afoot at BT. There has to be some reason why they haven't increased the usage to 80GB on the 8Mb lines. Also it seems a lot of people I know on the LLU are getting throttled also.

Royale with Cheese

Have the 2mb line. Been throttled for the past few days. Have gone over the 20gb cap but I wouldn't say by a massive amount. Maximum 30gb. Thought you really had to take the piss to get throttled with bt?

ntlbell

I think I've had BB for almost 10 years now and I still scratch my head at these threads.

What the f*ck do you be doing that requires 120GB a month.

Seriously.

There's only so many films you can watch/music you can listen to games you can play etc

wtf do you need to be grabbing 120gb a month?

stop jacking off and get out of the house.

Jonathan

How do you know you are on the LLU package? Is it just you can tell from the exchange?

B

my 3mb line is only 120 kbs now says ive been throttled? does this fix itself or do we ring BT?

March Summary for
Your usage has been throttled due to overuse.
Logins
Offpeak Traffic 0 minutes
Peak Traffic 0 minutes
Data uploaded 0.00 GB [ bytes]
Data downloaded 0.00 GB [ bytes]

Overall DSL Traffic Summary
This is a summary of all traffic since you first logged in
First Login Sat Jan 26 16:51:47 2008
Last Login Sat Jan 26 16:51:47 2008
Last Login Duration 1 minutes
Logins 1
Offpeak Traffic 1 minutes
Peak Traffic 0 minutes
Data uploaded 0.00 GB [55549 bytes]
Data downloaded 0.00 GB [264000 bytes]

Bohrio

B wrote: »

my 3mb line is only 120 kbs now says ive been throttled? does this fix itself or do we ring BT?

March Summary for
Your usage has been throttled due to overuse.
Logins
Offpeak Traffic 0 minutes
Peak Traffic 0 minutes
Data uploaded 0.00 GB [ bytes]
Data downloaded 0.00 GB [ bytes]

Overall DSL Traffic Summary
This is a summary of all traffic since you first logged in
First Login Sat Jan 26 16:51:47 2008
Last Login Sat Jan 26 16:51:47 2008
Last Login Duration 1 minutes
Logins 1
Offpeak Traffic 1 minutes
Peak Traffic 0 minutes
Data uploaded 0.00 GB [55549 bytes]
Data downloaded 0.00 GB [264000 bytes]

Ring BT

Royale with Cheese

Have the 2mb line. Been throttled for the past few days. Have gone over the 20gb cap but I wouldn't say by a massive amount. Maximum 30gb. Thought you really had to take the piss to get throttled with bt?

Have you checked your usage?

I dont think you are only 10 gb over the limit... might be a bit more?

LoLth

B wrote: »

my 3mb line is only 120 kbs now says ive been throttled? does this fix itself or do we ring BT?

March Summary for
Your usage has been throttled due to overuse.
Logins
Offpeak Traffic 0 minutes
Peak Traffic 0 minutes
Data uploaded 0.00 GB [ bytes]
Data downloaded 0.00 GB [ bytes]

Overall DSL Traffic Summary
This is a summary of all traffic since you first logged in
First Login Sat Jan 26 16:51:47 2008
Last Login Sat Jan 26 16:51:47 2008
Last Login Duration 1 minutes
Logins 1
Offpeak Traffic 1 minutes
Peak Traffic 0 minutes
Data uploaded 0.00 GB [55549 bytes]
Data downloaded 0.00 GB [264000 bytes]

where do you get this notice ? from the BT accounts page ?

B

LoLth wrote: »

where do you get this notice ? from the BT accounts page ?

http://broadband.iol.ie/usage/

kaimera

You have exceeded your download limit for this month!
Logins 34
Offpeak Traffic 27520 minutes
Peak Traffic 8979 minutes
Data uploaded 6.52 GB [6999611714 bytes]
Data downloaded 25.89 GB [27799470552 bytes]

Ehh...it's not a combined cap is it? ****ers.

Doesn't say I'm throttled but I'm over with only 25gigs down? Arse.

TouchingVirus

ntlbell wrote: »

I think I've had BB for almost 10 years now and I still scratch my head at these threads.

What the f*ck do you be doing that requires 120GB a month.

Seriously.

There's only so many films you can watch/music you can listen to games you can play etc

wtf do you need to be grabbing 120gb a month?

stop jacking off and get out of the house.

120GB a month, every month is a bit excessive. However it's quite feasible to find out about a TV Show and leech all it's seasons (at roughly 8GB a season and let's say 5 seasons thats 40GB). Or if you're the type of person to wait until a season finishes before downloading so you can gorge away then periodically (May and October usually if you follow the US TV schedule) you can download entire seasons of lots of shows (e.g. 24, LOST, BSG, House etc etc) which will easily put you onto dangerous ground.

This is just using TV shows as an example, if you're into your DVDR's or HD-rips then the same thing will apply. It's very easy if you download illegal movies/tv shows/games to reach 120GB. A bit harder if it were music or applications but not impossible.

So there, that's what you could be doing to reach 120GB, and note I didn't even include porn.

I hate when people say that stuff, it's not constructive and forces posts like mine :mad:

kaimera

But that assumes that you're able to get a reasonable constant download speed for said season and it doesn't take 4 weeks to come down

degsie

The warning is not valid as I'm on the 3Meg package and have not exceeded the limit of 30G!