Eircom Broadband - Download limits?

mathie

Hi,
I'm on my first month of Eircom BB and I've been downloading a lot of updates and the likes.

My account download status says

12081 MB -> 147% of 8192 MB

Will I get charged for the additional downloads?
Does a cap not mean it will stop downloading if you reach your limit?
Thanks!
M

Creamy Goodness

no a cap means you've got to stay within your limit that is set to you.

i don't know if eircom will charge you but i hope they do.

jor el

Lots of talk of this on the Broadband forum lately, but it seems that Eirocm don't charge for going over the limit. However, they are perfectly within their rights to do so and at any time, even backdating the charges so I wouldn't push my luck if I were you. Also, persistant offenders may have their connection terminated permenatlyif Eircom feel like it.

The new month starts tomorrow anyway so I'd just keep an eye on it in future if I were you. There's also talk of Eircom increasing their caps soon so you may not have to worry about this for much longer.

Chalk

Cremo wrote:

no a cap means you've got to stay within your limit that is set to you.

i don't know if eircom will charge you but i hope they do.

why do you hope they do?

mathie

Cremo wrote:

i don't know if eircom will charge you but i hope they do.

Thanks!
:rolleyes:

mathie

jor el wrote:

Lots of talk of this on the Broadband forum lately, but it seems that Eirocm don't charge for going over the limit. However, they are perfectly within their rights to do so and at any time, even backdating the charges so I wouldn't push my luck if I were you. Also, persistant offenders may have their connection terminated permenatlyif Eircom feel like it.

The new month starts tomorrow anyway so I'd just keep an eye on it in future if I were you. There's also talk of Eircom increasing their caps soon so you may not have to worry about this for much longer.

Thanks Jor El.
I'll bear all that in mind.
Shouldn't have such a large amount next month as I had a lot of windows Update rubbish to run. (and I had to do that twice because the Netopia router messed up and required me to install windows again!)
Cheers
M

Creamy Goodness

the reason why i said i hope they charge him is because he entered a contract with eircom with conditions stating that there is a download cap and anything over that cap is charged at such and such a rate per megabyte.

now don't get me wrong i hate caps i really do, but you sign up for the service you're meant to read the T&C's are you're meant to abide to them.

Giblet

Oh shut up.

Chalk

lmao, why dont you call the police on him?

I am MAN

mathie wrote:

Hi,
I'm on my first month of Eircom BB and I've been downloading a lot of updates and the likes.

My account download status says

12081 MB -> 147% of 8192 MB

Will I get charged for the additional downloads?
Does a cap not mean it will stop downloading if you reach your limit?
Thanks!
M

So many posts about this. Eircom have recently upgraded servers so they have the capability of charging people for going over the cap.

I do too hope you get charged

mathie

Chalk wrote:

lmao, why dont you call the police on him?

mathie

I am MAN wrote:

So many posts about this. Eircom have recently upgraded servers so they have the capability of charging people for going over the cap.

I do too hope you get charged

Whats with all the Schaden Freude?

I am MAN

mathie wrote:

Whats with all the Schaden Freude?

If I knew what that meant I would answer.

mathie

Whats with all the shameful joy?

Chalk

they dont know how to use their caps so they like to whinge about people who do know how to use them on the basis that eircom says so.

Creamy Goodness

if i was on capped broadband i'd be using it to the full potential ie. if with eircom i'm gonna get my 55 euros worth or whatever the price is.

i wouldn't want to pay any extra to the blood sucking corporation,

maybe i was a tad bit harsh, but if they don't charge you don't take it that they'll never will if you know what i mean.

InkPot

mathie wrote:

Hi,
I'm on my first month of Eircom BB and I've been downloading a lot of updates and the likes.

My account download status says

12081 MB -> 147% of 8192 MB

Will I get charged for the additional downloads?
Does a cap not mean it will stop downloading if you reach your limit?
Thanks!
M

can you check to see how much of your allocation you've used on the eircom website? if so, can you tell me where? Cheers!!

CrowdedHouse

InkPot wrote:

can you check to see how much of your allocation you've used on the eircom website? if so, can you tell me where? Cheers!!

http://dsl-support.eircom.net

See 'Your broadband stats' bottom RH corner

InkPot

thanks! Dunno how i never heard about that dsl support server!