IOL have doubled their caps???

ThaMasta

My usage calculator for IOL was stuck for a while (like alot of peoples), but now its seems to be fine, but they have added a little extra info...

"at your current rate of usuage you are likely to go over you limit in 14 days"

Now I'm currently at 7.97Gig on whats supposed to be an 8Gig cap..

So I held off for a day, and it changed to "at your current rate of usuage you are likely to go over you limit in 15 days"


To me this looks as if they have doubled my cap to 16Gig and at my current usage I would reach 16Gig in 15 days..

Im just curious, what with all the talk of upgrades and caps changing

Any1 notice anything similar?????

halenger

No change on mine unless they're leaving the IOLBB Plus at 16 - which would be stupid.

Winters

It would be very stupid if they were to upgrade all IOLBB+ people to a 2mb line.

/me cant wait ^_^

Sparky

Im on IOLBB+ and am looking forward to 2mb WOOOOOOHHHHHOOOOOO, but they should at least upgrade the cap to 32gb or 40, like the faster the speed the faster you will use up your cap

diarmo

I dont have now and never have had in the last 3 weeks, since I started the trial any line saying..."you have 20 days before you exceed the cap..."??

It has always said you ve download XX since you first turned on and thats it.

It is the Plus service though...mabye they just dont bother trying the enforce and cap with the 16GB version??

Any Views???

Would some one who has such a line written in their DSL summary please upload a pic of it...(with personal info of course smudged).

The General

Im with iol and have BB+ wher can i find out the info you guys are talking about(how much ive downloaded etc)??????????????????

diarmo

The link I use is:

http://broadband.iol.ie/cgi-bin/sec/dslhistory

Enter yout Username and Pass that you entered when you setup the modem.

Also could you post a pic like I did with private info blacked out so I can see if I'm alone without having any "you have XX days left beore you exceed your cap..etc"
To do this just add atachments under the text input screen.

Later.............

ThaMasta

Im on the standard IOL package not IOL+...

My cap is supposedly 8Gig...I only noticed this after the usage meter had been stuck for about a week.

MrVestek

ISPs with download caps... hahahahahahahaahhaah.
Use a real ISP ffs.

diarmo

ThaMasta wrote:

Im on the standard IOL package not IOL+...

My cap is supposedly 8Gig...I only noticed this after the usage meter had been stuck for about a week.

So you now have a 16GB cap in the normal IOL package???

Damn thats good..........I'll give 2mbit with hopefully a 32GB CAP(please....please....please....please....please....please....) a go and then make up my mind on it....

More poeple add your screens or another link to check download statistics please.

Thanks............

ThaMasta

I dont for sure know if the cap has doubled...it looks like it has, cannot be sure..It took 13 days to download 7.9gig...you would think it would of said "at your current rate u will exceed your limit in 1 day"...but it said 14 days...leading me to think that the cap is now 16Gig

....dont want to go over the 8Gig (currently at 7.97Gig) as IOL scaulded me a couple of months ago for going 3 Gig over..(bout 90 yoyos)

Anybody got any ideas???...anybody else's usage meter change like mine????

diarmo

They charged you for exceeding the cap............sh!t!!!!!!!!

Could more people post their dsl statictic page pics please.

BTW ThaMasta is the cap for downloads/uploads 8GB each for you or 8GB added together???

Cabaal

Achilles wrote:

ISPs with download caps... hahahahahahahaahhaah.
Use a real ISP ffs.

Indeed

Big P

and what would you recommend as a real isp? One thats only available to certain? Like breeze? One that costs twice as much as? One that has the worst pings ever like ripwave?

Personally I use iolbb since i download whatever i need in college and use pc at home for just regular stuff.

MrVestek

Erm, no not Irish Broadband, as yes their latency is ****e. I personally use NTL. They have a ficticious cap... mentioned only on their website... and it's never, and i mean never enforced, so technically i don't really have a cap.

*rubs his 1.5Mbps connection*

Ohh and contention is good with NTL, I've never had any trouble with connection slowing down etc and my average download speed is 190kbps. Latency is good too.

Just... don't try dealing with their tech support... grr.

OfflerCrocGod

Achilles wrote:

ISPs with download caps... hahahahahahahaahhaah.
Use a real ISP ffs.

NTL is also available "only in certain areas" Most of us have no choice in that we have to go for a Bitstream product.

Big P

OfflerCrocGod wrote:

NTL is also available "only in certain areas"

Exactly my point. You can only use whats made available to ya

Willymuncher

I notice no difference in my usage meter...i'm currently on 15.97gig and it doesn't say anything above it, nothing unusual at all

OfflerCrocGod

Willymuncher wrote:

I notice no difference in my usage meter...i'm currently on 15.97gig and it doesn't say anything above it, nothing unusual at all

? That is unusual! If you really are at ~16GB it should be telling you that "you will break your cap in 1 day" sort of thing....Mine still seems to 16GB though so I dont seem to have this double cap at all I'm sure they will increase the cap, I hope :rolleyes:

Willymuncher

OfflerCrocGod wrote:

? That is unusual! If you really are at ~16GB it should be telling you that "you will break your cap in 1 day" sort of thing....Mine still seems to 16GB though so I dont seem to have this double cap at all I'm sure they will increase the cap, I hope :rolleyes:

It always tends to do that....not sure why, maybe because i'm 30 mb away from 16gig, it told me the other day i was about to break my cap in so many days... if the caps are going to be increased anyway we won't see until april 4th most likely (kinda stating the obvious there i know)

Gone West

god, download caps really are a nuisance. Im living in Arizona for a few months and the lady at the broadband desk didnt even know what a download limit/cap was! She had to ask her supervisor. He told me that there was no cap. Ive downloaded 160gig this month. (5.5 mbit)

diarmo

What the hell are you downloading FuzzyLogic????

10Gbytes a day????

Even using a colege connection which was much faster than yours a couple of years ago...I was never able to download more than a couple of GB a day!!!!

jayneemac

I have "Offpeak Traffic" & "Peak Traffic" listed on my meter, is this correct?
I though when its an always on connection that they wouldn't differenciate between the two????

diarmo

I have the same setup jayneemac.

In Australia some of their ISP's give you X hours on peak(08:00-00:00) and Y hours offpeak(00:00-08:00).

This is so that you spread out your downloading over the day and dont grind their network to a halt.

In my opinion EsatBT probable had the same ideas originally...but as our caps are so low anyway they decided not to implement it and just left the statistics as is.

jayneemac

thnx for the info diarmo

snappieT

I'm still on the old system

http://members.boards.ie/snapscan1212p/dsl.jpg

vibe666

mine has always had the warning on it:



been ignoring the cap for the last couple of months anyway since i found out how unlikely it is for them to charge me (at least on the plus package) for going over.

only made it to 25gb so far though, so nothing too major.

as for the 'time left' info, it's taken on an average usage per day basis, so if you stopped using it for a day, the average drops sharply off.

so when it says your 'current usage' it's talking about for the last period it measured.

if you're going to download 1gb every day, you are likely to go over your cap in 8 days based on current usage, but if after 6 days you drop off to only using 200mb per day your 'current usage' pattern changes and you are likely to last a lot longer before going over.

diarmo

So vibe666 is that why some people are assuming that their download cap has been doubled??

Also:
Why are IOLBB+ users given one vaiant of the Usage meter then IOLBB users given another with a "X days left until you exceed your limit" given???
Seems odd to me!

ZENER

My read on the "X days" would be that this is how many days left in your billing period and that you will likely exceed your Cap before the period expires.

ZEN

diarmo

ZENER wrote:

My read on the "X days" would be that this is how many days left in your billing period and that you will likely exceed your Cap before the period expires.

ZEN

But why are iolBBplus customers given a different analysis of their Broadband usage than normal iolBB customers???

halenger

Cause they pay more? *shrugs*

It's not exactly a life altering change in fairness, just simple guesstimation.

Winters

diarmo wrote:

Also:
Why are IOLBB+ users given one vaiant of the Usage meter then IOLBB users given another with a "X days left until you exceed your limit" given???
Seems odd to me!

You only get the "X days left until you exceed your limit" if you are coming close to your limit and will go over it before the end of the month [iirc].

Redrocket

March Summary for me
Logins 1
Offpeak Traffic 143 minutes
Peak Traffic 0 minutes
Data uploaded 0.09 GB [93003241 bytes]
Data downloaded 0.10 GB [105682444 bytes]

ok thats wrong anyhow, i downloaded season7 of macgyver last week

Winters

It will only update after each login.

If you turn off your modem and turn it back on your stats will update.

diarmo

Winters wrote:

It will only update after each login.

If you turn off your modem and turn it back on your stats will update.

Incorrect

It cycles every 24hour period.
Turning your modem off and back on dosent gurantee anything as your IP has been locked into your account name for a set amount of time.
The longest I have ever had a single session was 1440minutes according to the usage statistics.
For those not great at math:
24hours x 60minutes = 1440minutes.

Basically I think their software is glitchy or a technician is resetting a usage server and is setting them correctly from backups.
Logging usage is not cheap or an easy thing to do!!!

vibe666

i've said that before about logging out if you're over your cap. they won't let you back on again until the following month.

vector

Willymuncher wrote:

I notice no difference in my usage meter...i'm currently on 15.97gig and it doesn't say anything above it, nothing unusual at all

me too (sic)

But you never know, the usage metre plays so many tricks, that you can't take that as meaning anything.

However, if some one was at 25 GB and it said "You will exceed your quota in 2 days" then that you be more concrete proof that the IOLBB plus quota has increased to 30GB

mcummins2

Winters wrote:

You only get the "X days left until you exceed your limit" if you are coming close to your limit and will go over it before the end of the month [iirc].

Seems to me that it is the people who are off the trial that X DAYS warning appears for. The people who are on the trial like me the version without the warning.

March Summary for
Logins 33
Offpeak Traffic 27805 minutes
Peak Traffic 11633 minutes
Data uploaded 0.36 GB [382520797 bytes]
Data downloaded 2.32 GB [2488952903 bytes]

Click here for history

Overall DSL Traffic Summary for
This is a summary of all traffic since you first logged in
First Login Sat
Last Login Sun Mar 27 15:45:43 2005
Last Login Duration 1440 minutes
Logins 214
Offpeak Traffic 162856 minutes
Peak Traffic 71704 minutes
Data uploaded 1.40 GB [1505149854 bytes]
Data downloaded 9.45 GB [10149974300 bytes]

diarmo

Has anyone using iolbb/esatBt got their speeds increased or had their caps increased yet???

€ircon, according to some posts here, are doubling all their caps.....oh how I hope iolbb/esatBT will double theirs as well.

Its nearing the end of March and according to another post, iolbb/esatBt are planning their upgrades to begin on 1st April.
That info came from a rep reading out an internal memo too loudly while answering questions on the phone...so ppl please dont start replying with "April fools day...etc".

Any and all constructive answers helpfull!

Xcellor

This thread seems a lot of speculation and guessing. I'm surprised it's not been closed because a lot of others have been closed.

I don't really see a direct correlation between the speed of a connection and the cap. Just because you can download something faster doesn't mean you will download more. Course some room for expansion is never a bad thing. I wouldn't moan if they gave 32 gigs. But hey I'd much rather a faster upload speed cos the majority of bb users send emails, I send emails with high quality JPEGs which are usually several megs meaning 128k is hardly sufficient.

I'm sure I'm not in the minority. Upload speed increase would make me happier than a 16 gig cap increase.

X

flogen

in relation to the IOL cap info, how reliable is the figure in your history? Mine seems to suggest that I've downloaded a total of 24gb in a year, when I remember almost breaking my cap (plus account) in my first and second months....

just a minor query, because I'd love to see how much I've downloaded in the year

diarmo

Personially I dont see the pont in putting a history of all your uploads/downloads and times in a single index.

A month-by-month comparison like what eircom offers would be much more helpfull.