Metro Problem Advice....

ricey

Right this is the problem i have so just tell me what ye all think
i should do, I am on metro+ with digiweb and went over my dl
limit and my dl speeds have been max 15kB/s so i rang them and
got told my connection has been capped because of going over
the dl limit. That is all fair but my big problem here is that i have
been told this will last 3 to 4 weeks before i get my connection
back to normal so i will have a connection of 15kB/s for the next
3 weeks at the least and been honest i cant live with that, like cap
a 4mb connection to 1mbit for the few weeks fair enough but 15kB/s
is just sad. What would ye do?

Cheers any advise will be great because i aint got a clue what to do here.

Jean Luc

hard luck ricey but you can't say you weren't warned!!!
everyone knew that there was a download limit and that if you exceeded it your connection would be capped..
and as we are on a contention ratio I don't see why I should have to suffer from slower speeds because someone is downloading the net..
I know I'm near my limit on the 30gig so I have stopped downloading until the next month..I try and limit myself to what I download..

and I supposed the 15K is to stop ppl from again downloading if they're over their limit...being throtted to 1mb wouldn't have much of an impact on stopping ppl from downloading..
but going on what you were saying ..3-4 weeks can't be right..it's only supposed to be for the remained of the month

ricey

Ya i agree i went over my capp and thats my fault but 3/4 weeks
is that not a bit harsh?

BrendanD

ricey ditch them as soon as you can get smart, all the exchanges in limerick are now enabled

ricey

Well been honest i told the guy on the phone today that i was going
to cancel because i cant afford to go that long at 15kB/s

I i could even pay extra i would but this is just a joke and i don think
i have went that much over my limit.

watty

60G cap is fairly big. You must be eating it, piping to /dev/nul or running out of disk space.

ADSL is 4km maybe 5km. LOTS of places even in Limerick City DSL doesn't work. I'm 12.5km from Digiweb base and no DSL here.


We have 4 or 5 using it and we would use about 7.5G per month.

ricey

There is no doubt i use it a lot but i need to use it, there has to
be a way to do it better then this.

Are ye sure that all limerick smart exchanges are up and running? There
website still tells me there not, Im in caherdavin and the exchange is right
across the road.

BrendanD

from the smart website

Live exchanges:
Crown Alley, Coolock, Clontarf, Dolphins Barn, North Main, Summerhill, Beggars Bush, Nangor Road, Ship St, Walkinstown, Whitehall, Santry, Churchfield, Quaker Rd, Dennehys Cross, Wellington Rd, Cork Central, Galway HPO, Mervue, Shantalla, Letterkenny, Roches St, Castletroy, Dooradoyle

Next exchanges (in no particular order)
Merrion, Ballydowd, Tallaght, Nutley, Dundalk, Waterford Central, Waterford Tycor. More info as soon as.

ring them i i have seen a lot of their vans out your way , was also reading on their forum that i guy d/l 1tb and its no prob

Blaster99

watty wrote:

ADSL is 4km maybe 5km. LOTS of places even in Limerick City DSL doesn't work.

By eircom's definition, perhaps. But the other poster was referring to Smart. If you can get Smart's broadband, then get it.

ricey

If i can get it digiweb are out, like its just a
bad way to do things i need my bb for work.

Sparky

Even at a 60gb cap watty, its split with your upload.

For example DL 10gb of linuk distros via torrents and your basically uploading 10gb aswell.

I know everybody doesnt do that, but different strokes for different folks.

watty

I knew there was a reason I don't use Torrants. Downloaded UBUNTU and burnt CD. About 670M. No doubt when I install it will download more.

I also am unintertersted in Sky Broadband downloads and Kazaa for similar reason. Why should other people use the BW I pay for?

Axl

If your cap is 60Gig - what was your usage when they capped you?

martinpw

i had the same problem.i download alot of game demos but i also upload pictures to friends which r big files,i found digiweb to be great tough.i always get between 3 & 4mbs on speedtests.my other mates who r on digiweb use p2p sites.ive seen them downlowd files about 1gb but they upload about 750mb thats nearly 7-8% in total of there roll back a month.use it wisely.enjoy the internet and dont download stuff illegaly.sorry i only joined digiweb 9 months ago and i find there great.READ THE RULES OF URE CONTRACT PLEASE

Emerson

Is there any way to check your usage on Digiweb Metro? There are 3 of us using it and I don't know how much everyone is using cumilatively

Chaz

Emerson wrote:

Is there any way to check your usage on Digiweb Metro? There are 3 of us using it and I don't know how much everyone is using cumilatively

http://mytraffic.digiweb.ie/