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kaizersoze

System maintenance - Thu 12/01/06
We will be upgrading our billing system on Thursday 12th January 2006 at 23:00.

This upgrade should not affect customers' connections.

Customers are advised to regularly check their download usage at http://broadbandsupport.eircom.net#stats

Is this a subtle way of telling customers they are about to start charging for exceeding the download allowance?
http://broadbandsupport.eircom.net/SRVS/CGI-BIN/WEBCGI.EXE/&/?St=66&E=0000000000007875027&K=2229&SXI=14&case=8788&branch=4

PixelTrawler

sure looks like they've finally a system in place to bill for this

OfflerCrocGod

I hope not I'm with BT but if €ircon start charging then it's possible BT might try it as well; hopefully they won't because it's a competitive advantage for them but who knows.........Anyway the caps are going up with the speed upgrades 40Gb or over will be plenty for my line. I doubt that's what we will be offered though probably only rubbish 30Gb

PixelTrawler

they may just double the caps... thats what they did last year

ghost26ie

i'll take 30gb no probs.

halenger

Joebloggs4817 wrote:

they may just double the caps... thats what they did last year

16GB -> 24GB. That's not double.

If they're going to start charging then they'd better change their rates to something less ridiculous and BT Ireland better fix their download stats page (mine is down again this month). Apparently I've not logged in since November 17th. *coughs*

PixelTrawler

halenger wrote:

16GB -> 24GB. That's not double.

i meant Eircom - they doubled from 8 to 16 last april

CyberGhost

oh man, this is bad news

Irishpimpdude

Glad i moved to IBB lol (not many people would say that)

MisterAnarchy

Looks like i picked a good time to transfer to Bt.
I download an average of 50Gb a month !:eek:

ghostdancer

i know it's greedy, but i really hope my 40gb allowance with digiweb goes up too. line goes from 2mb to 3mb, allowance going from 40gigs upto 60 seems only fair :v:

CyberGhost

ghostdancer wrote:

i know it's greedy, but i really hope my 40gb allowance with digiweb goes up too. line goes from 2mb to 3mb, allowance going from 40gigs upto 60 seems only fair :v:

It's not greedy,

I use like 40-50 gigs per month, and that's without p2p.

ZygOte

Irishpimpdude wrote:

Glad i moved to IBB lol (not many people would say that)

your right, your the only person ive ever heard of say something that crazy. wait and see they will **** up. :rolleyes:

OfflerCrocGod

The upgrades are on the 1st of Feb so we are going to have to wait another few days; God I'm hating every minute of my crappy 128kbps up.

dahamsta

OfflerCrocGod wrote:

God I'm hating every minute of my crappy 128kbps up.

Tell me about it. It's torture.

CyberGhost

OfflerCrocGod wrote:

The upgrades are on the 1st of Feb.

Upgrades are on 20-21st January.

OfflerCrocGod

CyberGhost wrote:

Upgrades are on 20-21st January.

Sorry I got confused with the promotions that €ircon are going to run on the 1st of Feb.

Fighting Irish

So when are BT speeds/caps going up? any dates set yet?

ghost26ie

bt is repackaged eircom so it should on the day or not long after.

Valentia

I wouldn't panic. I have it on fairly good authority that Eircom have no way of telling how long their timed BB customers are online. Daft I know but true. This upgrade probably fixes that issue.

ghost26ie

Valentia wrote:

I wouldn't panic. I have it on fairly good authority that Eircom have no way of telling how long their timed BB customers are online. Daft I know but true. This upgrade probably fixes that issue.

in the first 6 days of this month i downloaded 10gigs of stuff yet my stats page tells me i downloaded nothing.

mang87

With this upload speed upgrade, the ****ers will probably impliment an upload usage as well. :mad:

event

i have found out that if you now go over your limits, it is automatically added to your bill, AFAIK, they are gonna start charging for it

Sponge Bob

do you actually have a bill in writing (online or paper) ??

event

me?

no but i work for an ISP and thats what we are being told

Sponge Bob

But every ISP sets their own CAPS on resold Eircom Bitstream, therefore the only ISP that could have told you this specific information is EIRCOM.NET to whom most DSL users are connected.

Starting from bills issued from what date ????

Blaster99

What limits? The timed crap or the cap crap?

event

i think from now on

only telling you what i was told, teh download limits will now be strictly inforced with Eircom.net

Sponge Bob

but if you worked for a DIFFERENT ISP you WOULD say that about eircom.net would you not. As there are rumours about imminent (Feb sometime) generous increases in allowances for the existing always on products would it be a tad more accurate to say that those NEW allowances will be enforced AFTER they come in .........perchance ??

halenger

Now on being today or when they introduce the new packages with the new caps?

Hrmph...

event

Sponge Bob wrote:

but if you worked for a DIFFERENT ISP you WOULD say that about eircom.net would you not. As there are rumours about imminent (Feb sometime) generous increases in allowances for the existing always on products would it be a tad more accurate to say that those NEW allowances will be enforced AFTER they come in .........perchance ??

for gods sake:rolleyes:

i work in tech support, for another ISP, used to be eircom, i really dont care if any of yiz go over your limits and get charged to high heaven, or if yiz decide to move to an different ISP
im not gonna comment on who i work for, so wont get me any more business
and anyway, id prefer if we had less customers, less work for me;)

i was just telling you what ive been told, here and from friends who are still in eircom

do with the info what you will