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Anyone know how much the speed is throttled once the 80gb fair use limit is hit? Does it get gradually slower the more you use beyond that point or just drop to a default speed? Thanks

Sleeper12 wrote: »

Living in Dublin I forget that part of the country have no decent broadband.



Virgin throttle back the speed after 40 gigs. I spoke to a chap on their live chat about it as my son is autistic & uses data only. Not a single call or text each month! Anyway the guy told me that with reduced speed he could use Spotify. I don't know if that gives you any clue on speed. I'd be thinking like the worst hotel speed ever. Good enough to open emails & stuff but not good enough to watch Netflix.



Maybe hold off till your game comes out.

Yep there's supposedly a rural broadband roadmap in place but who knows when we'll see the practical benefit of that. Three assured me before signing up that I was in a 'purple zone' which was designated the highest signal strength area, and though they couldn't promise anything the sales agent was confident I'd get approximately 20mb download speed. Cut to a year into an 18 month contract and it's never gone above 1mb despite numerous calls to their tech guys and an after market aerial on the outside wall. It states in the contract that the minimum they need to provide to meet their end is 1mb, nice coincidence there.

If gomo throttled to that extent at least I'd have three slowmo to finish the download, provided I leave the pc on for 2 days straight. Thanks for the info on the virgin throttling speed anyway, I'd imagine they're all fairly similar with throttled speeds so good to know.

Sleeper12 wrote: »

Two days straight reminds me of downloading or opening a photo with dial up back in 1998. You could go have a cup of coffee and it'd still be downloading when you got back.

Ah the good old days, you are making me feel all nostalgic now

beauf wrote: »

Its bit fragile so I ended up with smallest one while trying to punch out the bigger size.

Just put the bigger "shroud" round the smaller one and you should be sorted

robfowler78 wrote: »

Hey just wondering what options to pick when porting from Virgin Mobile. I've entered the Mobil number and verification code but which option on the prepayed registered etc do you choose. Any help appreciated.

Choose prepaid registered if your current plan is PAYG and you have registered your details with them.

robfowler78 wrote: »

Hey that makes sense the message says something like account number is wrong or can't be found. Just seen there is no option for account number on prepay so I never entered it. I've set it for tomorrow at 7:10am so should find out if that works. Thanks

Set my port over for 7:10 this morning using the optioned recommended here. Is still at porting over stage so that's better then yesterday. While its porting can I still use one of the sims should it be my virgin sim I use or my gomo. Sorry for the questions just not sure how it works.

Yggr of Asgard wrote: »

Virgin port can take hours.

Continue to use your virgin sim in your mobile for everything until you see the network drop or you get for example Sim not valid.

Than put your gomo sim into the mobile and configure your phone and voice mail.

After about 10 minutes aks some people you know to call or text you to see if the port worked fine.

Thanks will do that

robfowler78 wrote: »

Thanks will do that

Transfered and all working thanks for your help

How long does it generally take to port a number fro tesco to Gomo? I've been at "Port is in progress" for over 24 hours.

Hi all.
First off, a big Thank You, to all on this thread for your input as I became very wise after reading through it ........ and
I signed up to boards.ie as a result. This is my experience of the great changeover.

I selected 2 p.m. to day as change over time. At 2.57 p.m. my old eir network shut down.
I put in the gomo sim and after 5 mins or so, I got 2 texts from gomo. The second one informed that my old number was now set up.
To test this, I used my landline and dialled my number and got through. I signed up on the second day of their launch, so as to
give them a decent time frame to set things up for me. The sim arrived after 2 days.


So to sum up, it took them approximately 1 hour 10 mins to cut off from the old contract and kick off the new one.