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  • 04-11-2006 12:57pm
    #1
    mr_disc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 654 ✭✭✭


    Hi there, just wondering if any of you use an ISP that has limits on download / upolad amounts per month. Im with Smart ( yes i at last got reconnected ! ) and they dont have any. If you have gone over these caps did you get charged for it ?........


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    #2
    kaizersoze
    Registered Users Posts: 7,042 ✭✭✭kaizersoze


    Why?


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    #3
    Cabaal
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 28,496 Mod ✭✭✭✭Cabaal


    Search the forum and reads the threads, the answer are their already

    No need to post questions like this imho,


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    #4
    mr_disc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 654 ✭✭✭mr_disc


    kaizersoze wrote:
    Why?

    Cause after all the grief with smart im thinkin of changing ISP.... thats why


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    Cabaal
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 28,496 Mod ✭✭✭✭Cabaal


    - NTL have a cap and they may cut you off for going over (if you keep doing it)
    - UTV have a cap and will charge you I believe, but you can pay for a "unlimited" a/c
    - Eircom have caps, don't believe they have charged
    - BT have caps but don't believe they have charged
    - Smart have no caps and have never charged
    - BT Business have no caps whatsoever

    imho your better off sticking with Smart, I know I would


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    #6
    mr_disc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 654 ✭✭✭mr_disc


    Cheers cab. , guess i should stay with smart , if they'll stay in business that is, i was without Bband for just over a month ( since the eircom scenario) and they managed to change my phone number twice on re - activation ( even though i thought i could have the initial one back ... but someone messed up big time ) :(


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    qwertplaywert
    Registered Users Posts: 3,404 ✭✭✭qwertplaywert


    what about digiweb?im properly getting their wireless 1mb with 126kp upload and 10gb limit

    what would happen if i went over that?


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    #8
    watty
    Registered Users Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    you get slowed down to ISDN speed


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    #9
    qwertplaywert
    Registered Users Posts: 3,404 ✭✭✭qwertplaywert


    whats that?
    and for how long?


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    #10
    sinkingfish
    Registered Users Posts: 94 ✭✭sinkingfish


    IBB no cap!

    i know a lot of ppl complain but i find them really good. And i'd be screwed if i had a cap.


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    #11
    jor el
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,713 ✭✭✭✭jor el


    qwertplaywert wrote:
    whats that?
    and for how long?
    ISDN is 64-128kbps, so slightly faster than dial-up. It'll be down at that speed until your usage goes low enough to bring you back below the cap again. Digiweb operate a rolling cap, so it counts your usage for the past 30 days (not by calendar month). If you break the cap you get throttled. If you stop, or severely reduce, your usage for a day or two then you should come back under your cap.

    All in all, it's a fairly crap way to operate a cap as once you hit it, it'll be very hard to get it back down unless you stop using it all together.


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    #12
    mr_disc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 654 ✭✭✭mr_disc


    sinkingfish wrote:
    And i'd be screwed if i had a cap.

    Thats what im afraid of..... but by the looks of things it seems like this wont happen if i do end up changing ISP


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