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ntl limit - counter?

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  • 10-07-2007 6:34pm
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    bonkers
    Registered Users Posts: 815 ✭✭✭


    just wondering if there is anywhere you cna go to see how much of the limit you have used in any one month


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    _CyRuSS_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 73 ✭✭_CyRuSS_


    bonkers wrote:
    just wondering if there is anywhere you cna go to see how much of the limit you have used in any one month

    i don't think so, i don't really worry about it, sometimes i go over, sometimes i hit it spot on without having to limit myself... i have gone over it by 100 gb or so before and nobody said anything to me

    so long as its not a constant thing i dont think they mind if you go over, and since they don't charge extra per mb over, i don't think it's necessary for them to provide it

    google for a program called DUMeter though, it's quite useful


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    Gran Hermano
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,330 ✭✭✭Gran Hermano


    If anyone knows how to use DUmeter to measure what you download onto
    your 36o and PS3 I'd be interested ;)


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    Ph3n0m
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,655 ✭✭✭Ph3n0m


    bonkers wrote:
    just wondering if there is anywhere you cna go to see how much of the limit you have used in any one month


    Nope - I was onto NTL before about this, and they admitted they have no system for their customers to see if they are close to their limit, or if they have gone over it.

    The only way you can find out, is from that ever so friendly letter NTL send out, only after you have exceeded the limit


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    christophicus
    Registered Users Posts: 3,969 ✭✭✭christophicus


    Yeah NTL do sometimes send a letter out when you go over the limit.


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    _CyRuSS_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 73 ✭✭_CyRuSS_


    Gran Hermano wrote:
    If anyone knows how to use DUmeter to measure what you download onto
    your 36o and PS3 I'd be interested ;)

    unless you're using internet connection sharing through your pc to your console (modem<-pc<-console) then it won't be possible

    if you have a router, some routers can do this for you... although sometimes not out of the box, for example I have a Linksys WRT54G, and I've replaced the original firmware with Tomato firmware (http://www.polarcloud.com/tomato) it comes with nice graphs and statistics, which let you monitor traffic usage from all PC's/laptops/consoles or whatever you have connected through your router.

    You may have a different router though, and even still replacing firmware, while easy and usually safe, may void the warranty and possibly break it.


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    ixoy
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 17,993 Mod ✭✭✭✭ixoy


    If you got a letter of warning, what did it say? Was it a friendly warning and nothing more? Or the threat of fees + withdrawal of service? I've been playing it safe but if there's little to worry about, might up the ante.


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    #8
    Gran Hermano
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,330 ✭✭✭Gran Hermano


    Last time NTL/UPC/Chorus reviewed people's usage they just sent
    disconnection letters to people they felt were way over their monthly
    cap. People were posting on boards that they had received letters stating
    they would be disconnected in X number of days. Some of these people
    had not even received a prior warning. There was no option to pay for the
    'excessive' usage. This was made worse that NTL had changed their usage
    policy to count both upload and download whilst previously they had only
    counted download - again this was without informing their customers of
    the policy change. (Here's the last thread on the subject).


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    Ph3n0m
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,655 ✭✭✭Ph3n0m


    ixoy wrote:
    If you got a letter of warning, what did it say? Was it a friendly warning and nothing more? Or the threat of fees + withdrawal of service? I've been playing it safe but if there's little to worry about, might up the ante.

    It pretty much said "stop being so selfish and sucking up the bandwidth, or else we will withdraw your service" - I will dig it out later and post it up for all to see :)


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    Kintarō Hattori
    Registered Users Posts: 14,989 ✭✭✭✭Kintarō Hattori


    Ph3n0m wrote:
    It pretty much said "stop being so selfish and sucking up the bandwidth, or else we will withdraw your service" - I will dig it out later and post it up for all to see :)

    Please do.


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