Exceeding Eircom broadband download limit

09-12-2012 01:41AM #1

I have 8mb Eircom broadband with the "unlimited" allowance. In five years I have never exceeded my allowance however because of the time of year I expect to go over 250gb for December. A once off. I am wondering if I will be charged? If so is there a maximum fee? I'd ask on the Eircom forums but there's no one there at the weekend!

keelanj69 · 09-12-2012 01:43AM

The charge is something like 70c per gig you go over. Im not sure if the 70 figure is correct, could be 40c but there is a charge.

Bloodwing may have it right. It is a fair usage policy so maybe youll get away with it.

Bloodwing · 09-12-2012 01:44AM

Deleted User wrote: »

I have 8mb Eircom broadband with the "unlimited" allowance. In five years I have never exceeded my allowance however because of the time of year I expect to go over 250gb for December. A once off. I am wondering if I will be charged? If so is there a maximum fee? I'd ask on the Eircom forums but there's no one there at the weekend!

I went up to around 300gb during the steam summer sales and i wasn't charged anything extra. I think it's only done if you're taking the piss.

dreamers75 · 09-12-2012 01:45AM

Never been charged my record according to Eircoms website is 1.8TB

Im not even sure how i did that

Gaynna · 10-12-2012 01:14PM

dreamers75 wrote: »

Never been charged my record according to Eircoms website is 1.8TB

Im not even sure how i did that

I'd love to know how you managed that. I'm a member of a private tracker for the past 5 years -- which I'm on everyday -- and I've yet to hit 1 TB download on it.

18-12-2012 08:34PM

I thought Eircom started to charge when they brought in all the NGB nonsense?

iPhone. · 19-12-2012 12:54AM

When I was with Eircom they told me they do not enforce the download cap - I was on 30GB or something like that on a 7Mb packagae at the time and often went over with no problems. - that was about 6 months ago or that.

PogMoThoin · 19-12-2012 01:00AM

I already have 225Gb used this month, 390 last month, 415 in Sept, 600+ in July. I am on a business connection though, not sure if it makes a difference but I've never been charged, I just use it as I like.

ED E · 20-12-2012 12:22PM

They used to charge!

We were on 8Mb(3.5Mb) and a 30GB cap, we got bills for over €100 /month for three months in a row. The aul fella then ripped them a new one on the phone and we were moved to permanently unlimited(really unlimited, not "unlimited cough 30GB").

[Steve] · 27-12-2012 09:38AM

7 of the last 9 months I have gone over by 50-100gb in downloads, this month.. well.. lil bit more. Which is to be expected, given the increased usage. Unless eircom wish to be evil, I don't see anyone on the NGB pack being charged, especially not the 24mb customers (me) who are paying far too much for a service that isn't ALL that.

(Yes, like someone else mentioned, about 100GB of this so far is due to the Steam sale

)

CptSternn · 28-12-2012 11:51AM

Well I just passed the 250 gig mark this morning so I guess we are all going to find out together when the bill comes out next month sure!

[Steve] · 29-12-2012 07:54AM

I blame the Steam sale for the following post content..

On the 27th, as you can see above, 396Gb, I figured that with daily YouTube viewing I'd hit about 410Gb by the 31st.

Well, I just had a bit of a €250 spree on Steam, currently on 432Gb. only 4 of 31 games have downloaded since 3am. Guessing after they are all downloaded I'll be around the 680Gb mark. Lets stretch this 24Mb connection to the limit. 2.3Mb/s is mighty nice. Hopefully the bill will be too. :rolleyes:

wtf1231 · 31-12-2012 07:32PM

When I read this I can’t believe that there are internet service provider that will limit or meter the amount of used traffic per month.

I live in the Netherlands, have a 120/10Mbit (15MB/1.2MB per sec) line that will be replaced with fiberglass next year. Will then get around 500/500. Or 62.5 MB/s (theoretically...) I think my maximum of a month was around 3 TB.

This is the history of the last year, these measures comes from my router with an alternative firmware on it. (Toastman, Tomato) I cannot wrap my head around the idea that some of you guys are still using an 8Mbit line!

Date	    Download	    Upload	    Total
2012-12	    290 GB	    193 GB	    483 GB
2012-11	    406 GB	    72 GB	    479 GB
2012-10	    465 GB	    372 GB	    837 GB
2012-09	    546 GB	    84 GB	    631 GB
2012-08	    852 GB	    656 GB	    1509 GB
2012-07	    1025 GB	    817 GB	    1842 GB
2012-06	    1905 GB	    489 GB	    2394 GB
2012-05	    1503 GB	    361 GB	    1864 GB
2012-04	    510 GB	    111 GB	    622 GB
2012-03	    806 GB	    107 GB	    913 GB
2012-02	    184 GB	    196 GB	    381 GB
2012-01	    619 GB	    399 GB	    1019 GB

01-01-2013 06:55PM

I actually bottled it and stopped at 245GB!! I just hate getting nasty surprises in the post!

Yes I'm a real high roller. I'd be grateful if one of you guys could report back. Hopefully you'll get away with it and I can start downloading with impunity.

22-01-2013 01:58PM

Anybody get a bill yet and get charged for going over?

amdaley28 · 22-01-2013 02:52PM

It could be worse, you could be with Vodafone.
I am on (not for much longer) 40Gb a month & in December for the first time even I went over the 40Gb (60Gb) & it cost me Euro 20 extra.

[Steve] · 22-01-2013 07:33PM

Deleted User wrote: »

I actually bottled it and stopped at 245GB!! I just hate getting nasty surprises in the post! Yes I'm a real high roller. I'd be grateful if one of you guys could report back. Hopefully you'll get away with it and I can start downloading with impunity.

I got my bill for December, was the same as always. Standard cost. I downloaded almost 600GB. So, I'd imagine they would only charge if you keep going over the limit on consecutive months.

I'm on 24Mb NGB Ultimate. I don't know if things would be different for 8Mb customers.

dobsdave · 25-01-2013 11:34AM

Im with Eircom, 10gb allowance, went 3 gb over last month(1st time over in months) and got charged 5 euro.
I will definitely be switching to Sky when possible.

amdaley28 · 25-01-2013 11:45AM

dobsdave wrote: »

Im with Eircom, 10gb allowance, went 3 gb over last month(1st time over in months) and got charged 5 euro.
I will definitely be switching to Sky when possible.

And they wonder why they're in trouble. Penny pinching outfit :rolleyes:
For the first time even in December I went over with Vodafone 40Gb (60Gb) & it cost me €20.
It won't be happening again because I've left them

PogMoThoin · 25-01-2013 11:47AM

dobsdave wrote: »

Im with Eircom, 10gb allowance, went 3 gb over last month(1st time over in months) and got charged 5 euro.
I will definitely be switching to Sky when possible.

Sounds like you have a mobile product, not what's being asked here. All mobile has poor limits. The OP was referring to DSL through the phone line

OMG Its EoinD · 25-01-2013 12:11PM

I had a 30GB 3megabit package (out in the sticks) and often went 300-400GB every month. Never got charged , they said they don't "really" enforce it

Stinicker · 26-01-2013 03:21AM

OMG Its EoinD wrote: »

I had a 30GB 3megabit package (out in the sticks) and often went 300-400GB every month. Never got charged , they said they don't "really" enforce it

I used to be on the same but the most I ever exceeded it was by 3-4GB and it was the main motivator for me going to Sky. I know Sky is cheaper and faster now but if I knew that Eircom would not charge extra or put me on a 3mb unlimited I'd have stayed. The 30GB cap felt totally restrictive! and I was afraid to go crazy for fear of getting a huge bill, this happened to my cousin on Three when I introduced her to torrents a while back, got a bill for €120 for a month!

To the lads downloading hundreds of gigs, you know too much of that sorta thing can make you go blind

Exceeding Eircom broadband download limit

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