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Master list of "Fair Usage" limits available?

  • 19-06-2014 11:06AM
    #1
    EVanB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 48 ✭


    Been with Irish Broadband for a few years with more or less no problems, unfortuantely the service has degraded and after having the engineers out it would appear that theres a line of trees somewhere between the house and the high point thats interfering with LOS. Not much that can be done about that by them or I so thinking about changing service. However everyone in the house is a (very) "heavy" user so IB's "unlimited" (If there was a fair usage cap we never hit it and some months have been extremely high) access was important. Looking around there dont appear to be a huge amount of options, the local exhancge is only ADSL1 and theres no fibre options available. I wouldnt mind switching to DSL over fixed wireless to get a usable upload speed though. It seems Magnet and Vodafone are available (Eircom, Ripple and Net1 are also available but right out due to pointlessly low usage caps).

    So to cut a long story short Eircom. Magnet and Vodafone dont have a cap listed under their fair usage is there a resource anywhere that lists the actual caps for Irish broadband providers fair usage?


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  • #2
    guil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 10,710 ✭✭✭✭guil


    Never had a problem downloading 2-300gb a month with magnet


  • #3
    Bog Standard User
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 847 ✭✭✭Bog Standard User


    EVanB wrote: »
    Been with Irish Broadband for a few years with more or less no problems, unfortuantely the service has degraded and after having the engineers out it would appear that theres a line of trees somewhere between the house and the high point thats interfering with LOS. Not much that can be done about that by them or I so thinking about changing service. However everyone in the house is a (very) "heavy" user so IB's "unlimited" (If there was a fair usage cap we never hit it and some months have been extremely high) access was important. Looking around there dont appear to be a huge amount of options, the local exhancge is only ADSL1 and theres no fibre options available. I wouldnt mind switching to DSL over fixed wireless to get a usable upload speed though. It seems Magnet and Vodafone are available (Eircom, Ripple and Net1 are also available but right out due to pointlessly low usage caps).

    So to cut a long story short Eircom. Magnet and Vodafone dont have a cap listed under their fair usage is there a resource anywhere that lists the actual caps for Irish broadband providers fair usage?

    eircom's fup is 500gb per month on unlimited package but it is rare enforced unless there has been a complaint lodged from the anti piracy groups


  • #4
    EVanB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 48 ✭EVanB


    Bog Standard User wrote: »
    eircom's fup is 500gb per month on unlimited package but it is rare enforced unless there has been a complaint lodged from the anti piracy groups

    Thats actually a fairly decent rate, think I might have to stick with IB though, despite the line of sight issues. About 4KM from the nearest Eircom exchange which seems to still be an unupgraded ADSL one so max of 12Mb, more likely looking at 1MB up/down which would actually be worse than the semi functional Irish broadband one.


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