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kaizersoze · 2006-01-11 15:25:19

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

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#62 15-01-2006 5:37pm

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CyberGhost wrote:

It was disbelief

I already knew that eircom were going to increase only by a little, so doubling was not right.

The 1mb/s increase IS a doubling for probably most of their customers...

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#63 15-01-2006 5:52pm

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I know, but he did not say HOME, so I assumed when he said speeds are doubling, and he meant all speeds, which is not true.

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#64 15-01-2006 6:06pm

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I hope they double the cap. If they do, I should be ok.

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#65 15-01-2006 10:21pm

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mang87 wrote:

I hope they double the cap. If they do, I should be ok.

Bahahaha! And i thought i was bad. U iz fooked budday.

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#66 15-01-2006 10:37pm

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Nick_oliveri wrote:

Bahahaha! And i thought i was bad. U iz fooked budday.

Oh really? what about this guy then?

WellyJ wrote:

By ludicrous i mean 10 times the cap

Check This Out

or me

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#67 15-01-2006 10:42pm

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CyberGhost wrote:

You may hope they don't charge retroactively if they start; July there would cost you around 3000euro

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#68 16-01-2006 4:23am

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Slightly off topic but what the hell...

What day are we getting the upgrades again? is it the 20th or the 24th, I've heard both dates being mentioned.

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#69 16-01-2006 4:34am

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20 through 21st

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#70 16-01-2006 10:23am

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Willymuncher wrote:

Slightly off topic but what the hell...

What day are we getting the upgrades again? is it the 20th or the 24th, I've heard both dates being mentioned.

http://broadbandsupport.eircom.net/SRVS/CGI-BIN/WEBCGI.EXE/&/?St=16&E=0000000000008291898&K=5962&SXI=0&case=8778&branch=4

Possible disruption to your broadband service
one-
We will be upgrading our broadband service between 22:00 on Friday 20th January 2006 and 18:00 on Saturday 21st January 2006.

As a broadband customer, you may experience a disruption to your broadband service during this timeframe

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#71 16-01-2006 1:17pm

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kaizersoze wrote:

http://broadbandsupport.eircom.net/SRVS/CGI-BIN/WEBCGI.EXE/&/?St=16&E=0000000000008291898&K=5962&SXI=0&case=8778&branch=4

Yep I'd already seen that, but I thought I had heard somewhere that while the exchanges were being upgraded friday, the service wasn't going live until tuesday...must be making sh*t up in my head

Edit: Ah this is where I seen it
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054869370

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#72 30-03-2006 11:24pm

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grimloch wrote:

I reckon all we need is a few brave souls to take a hit for the team and go over it within the next few months.

I recall it being a fairly fierce price for going over the cap though, even if you only went over it by a gig.

Has anyone got any recent feedback on how strict eircom are enforcing their download caps? Would they be noting on the bill that you have gone say 1gig over for example? How much do they charge?

I see the screenshots you have above, where did you get these stats from?
Are these from the Eircom page? If so, does anyone have a link please?
Are similar statistics printed on your bill even if you have downloaded less than your limit?

Please and thanks

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#73 30-03-2006 11:56pm

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flashcash5 wrote:

Has anyone got any recent feedback on how strict eircom are enforcing their download caps? Would they be noting on the bill that you have gone say 1gig over for example? How much do they charge?

I see the screenshots you have above, where did you get these stats from?
Are these from the Eircom page? If so, does anyone have a link please?
Are similar statistics printed on your bill even if you have downloaded less than your limit?

Please and thanks

Nothing definate about enforcing/charging.
Check your stats here: http://dslstats.eircom.net
In the "Your broadband stats" section enter your phone number & account number.

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#74 31-03-2006 12:05am

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Hmmm...

Another thing happening in the US - Carriers there are going to start charging for Quality of Service...

http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=86495

By doing this the telcos could in theory protect revenues from VoIP operators....

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#75 31-03-2006 8:12am

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thanks kaizersoze.

If anyone knows to what extent similar statistics are displayed on each bill, i'd be interested to know. Whether or not they are under or over the limit..

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#76 31-03-2006 10:28am

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crawler wrote:

Hmmm...

Another thing happening in the US - Carriers there are going to start charging for Quality of Service...

http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=86495

By doing this the telcos could in theory protect revenues from VoIP operators....

Then again, if you're a VoIP operator and paying an ISP a small sum of money allows you to sell the service reliably to a chunk of customers, then it might be worth doing. It's possible that some customers would also pay the ISP for prioritised latency sensitive traffic.

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