Difference between Download & Usage Limit?

kiersm

Hey there, I am currently an eircom broadband customer & I've been listening to your ads on the radio bout the broadband package that is on offer for €39.99 and from there I looked up the details on your website & the wording on the website has me some bit confused.

My current package has a download limit and this ad is showing a usage limit. Whats the difference and why the change in wording?

eircom Next Generation Broadband Basic & eircom talktime chatter

€39.99 per month first 6 months
Standard price €46.79* thereafter

• Line rental included
• Up to 8Mb uncongested broadband
• 10GB usage allowance
• Unlimited local & national calls off–peak†
• 30 FREE any network mobile minutes off–peak‡

thefinalstage

Download means only the data being sent to you is monitored.

Usage means both the data being sent by you and to you is being monitored.

eircom: Mark

kiersm wrote: »

Hey there, I am currently an eircom broadband customer & I've been listening to your ads on the radio bout the broadband package that is on offer for €39.99 and from there I looked up the details on your website & the wording on the website has me some bit confused.

My current package has a download limit and this ad is showing a usage limit. Whats the difference and why the change in wording?

eircom Next Generation Broadband Basic & eircom talktime chatter

€39.99 per month first 6 months
Standard price €46.79* thereafter

• Line rental included
• Up to 8Mb uncongested broadband
• 10GB usage allowance
• Unlimited local & national calls off–peak†
• 30 FREE any network mobile minutes off–peak‡

Hi kiersm

The standard broadband packages only applied download usage as part of the package allowance. The NGB also includes upload as well as download.

In computer networks, to download means to receive data to a local system from a remote system, or to initiate such a data transfer. Examples of a remote system from which a download might be performed include a web server, FTP server, email server, or other similar systems.

uploading, can refer to the sending of data from a local system to a remote system such as a server or another client with the intent that the remote system should store a copy of the data being transferred.

basically the the information sent from your modem device back to the network is also being counted as usage.


Which is why it is now usage rather than downloads.



If you have any follow up issues let me know.

Thanks, Mark

kiersm

Thanks for that, now i understand the ad.

Was just curious as I was thinking of using that package but looks like its not the one for me.

eircom: Mark

kiersm wrote: »

Thanks for that, now i understand the ad.

Was just curious as I was thinking of using that package but looks like its not the one for me.

Hi kiersm,

No problem .

If you any queries in the follow up queries let me know.

Thanks, Mark