Eircom DSL residental cap

GUI

anyone on i-stream residental package and
been charged for going over the cap limit?

BoneCollector

just to add to that question... if you read the small print it says..
eircom "reserve" the right to charge 3.8c per extra megabyte..

Emphasis on the "RESERVE!"

Which does not imply they WILL! charge you for the extra or will! cost you extra. Hmm....

i know a few people who have gone over the cap and have NOT been charged.

Washout

I am not on it yet but talking to 2 friends who do have it..They have said they have never once been charged for going over the cap...
I guess they dont go over it by much but if you do go over it by a fair bit then it will be flagged to to the eircom techies

BoneCollector

But be carefull cuz regardless of what the small print says...
remember there contrat also says that if ercom deem you usage to be too excessive they can bump you up to a higher tarriff and/or cut you off completely

GUI

ok so
if i hit 8 gigabyes a month
no probs ya reckon?

Dustaz

If you hit 8 gbs per month eircom, if they wish, can charge you for 4 gbs over the limit.

moving to broadband.

GUI

i can see you did mathematics in your day ;-)

Washout

are there tools available to track the number of bytes sent and recieved?

if not is there a niche in the market so i can develop one and sell it on

Mountjoy Mugger

Originally posted by Dustaz
If you hit 8 gbs per month eircom, if they wish, can charge you for 4 gbs over the limit.

Yeah - but if you do it as a once off, and promise to be a good little person after that, odds are you'll be alright. I think the term "continuous abuse" might have a place here.

aliesneo

Over the last month i must have downloaded about 30 movies and didnt get charged for going over 4 gigs

strat

Originally posted by Washout
are there tools available to track the number of bytes sent and recieved?

www.dumeter.com

Dustaz

Originally posted by aliesneo
Over the last month i must have downloaded about 30 movies and didnt get charged for going over 4 gigs

Then you cant complain if you DO get a bill at a later date.


People. Eircom are very clear about this in the T&C. it says "eircom reserve the right to charge...".

aliesneo

But i dont use eircom. I was just saying i downloaded over 30 gigs this month
doubt i will be getting a bill aswell

bizmark

But i dont use eircom. I was just saying i downloaded over 30 gigs this month

i guess its people like you that abuse the service that makes the rest of us suffer

aliesneo

What service am i abusing?

bizmark

as i know it (and i admit its limited) the more bandwith u use the less others can use ...........also a person d/l 30gig not getting charged more than a person trying to stick to the rules is totaly unfair:p

aliesneo

i said a few posts ago i dont use eircom.
im on a student campus

bizmark

i said a few posts ago i dont use eircom.

u never said u where useing the college adsl you could have ment esat irishbroadband etc

aliesneo

Yeah.
Its a lot faster than adsl tho

eth0_

Originally posted by aliesneo
Yeah.
Its a lot faster than adsl tho

Well why are you posting here about downloading 4gb when you don't even HAVE dsl? It's a little irrelevent you know...

Frank Grimes

Originally posted by aliesneo
But i dont use eircom. I was just saying i downloaded over 30 gigs this month
doubt i will be getting a bill aswell

Has to be done

Praetorian

Eircom are just covering themselves.

They probably dont have a system in place for charging when people go over the cap anyway.

Download away at your hearts content...and If you get stung eventually...it will more than likely only be for that month.

aliesneo

so..

Mountjoy Mugger

Originally posted by aliesneo
so..

So....you just start/post a thread entitled Eircom DSL residental cap when you don't have it. Frank Grimes hit the nail on the head.

eth0_

I'd also *LOVE* to know which college in Ireland allows its students to use p2p software to download 4GB of movies in a day! I was under the impression they were all locked down for that kind for access...

aliesneo

Mountjoy Mugger
my 'so' wasnt to do with you. It was etho

Turner

aliesneo, The topic was about Eircoms cap and has anybody ever been charged for exceeding it.

Keep it on topic, if i have to lock another thread because of you you will find yourself banned from the broadband forum.

Chief.

aliesneo

Originally posted by Chief---

Keep it on topic, if i have to lock another thread because of you you will find yourself banned from the broadband forum.

Chief. [/B]

come on chief!!! if u were to ban everyone that didnt stick to the topic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

eth0_

Originally posted by aliesneo
come on chief!!! if u were to ban everyone that didnt stick to the topic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Urm...there's going OT...and then there's your pointless bragging about things that have absolutely nothing to do with this thread or even this forum.

Whoo! Welcome to college, champ! They have fast net access! Whoo!


As for the cap, I have heard of someone being charged for going over cap on eircom...must follow that up and find out what happened.

sceptre

Originally posted by eth0_
As for the cap, I have heard of someone being charged for going over cap on eircom...must follow that up and find out what happened.

Please do, it'd be interesting to hear about that. Anyone I've talked to in Eircom said they'd prefer the person to slide up a package rather than charge them per meg so they must have been pretty gung ho about it.

aliesneo

yeah whatever

lynchie

Originally posted by eth0_
I'd also *LOVE* to know which college in Ireland allows its students to use p2p software to download 4GB of movies in a day! I was under the impression they were all locked down for that kind for access...

Well when I was in Aungier St. DIT, there was not one single firewall between your PC and the web. The whole of the 147.252.*.* was visible from outside the DIT. You could run everything from IRC, Napster (back in the days) to Unreal servers. I know most machines had space restrictions so you couldnt do much but not all of them. I think Kevin Street may have had a firewall between it and the main DIT gateway but not Aungier St. Not sure if its the same now.

aliesneo

The campus has nothing at all to do with the uni. campus has its own 2mb line(which is not enuff)
everyone is using kazaa now. and a lot of the time u cant even go to a web site
they have blocked some things like yahoo games, imesh ....
but they cannot block kazaa becos u can get it working by clicking the box use port 80
and they cannot block that port becos its needed for www
I dont think they can do anything else apart from block ports
becos we dont logon to anything or have any restrictions.

eth0_

Originally posted by lynchie
Well when I was in Aungier St. DIT, there was not one single firewall between your PC and the web

LOL. I remember the days when every nerd in Ireland had a stolen account on a VAX in DIT. heheheh. All you needed was someones student number...their login and pass were their student no.

longword

Originally posted by aliesneo
but they cannot block kazaa becos u can get it working by clicking the box use port 80
and they cannot block that port becos its needed for www

If they were so minded, they could redirect all port 80 traffic through a transparent web proxy which could filter based on the URL and reject anything that looks dodgy based on a regex match.

Mercury_Tilt

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