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BT - do they enforce the download cap? What about Smart?

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  • 18-08-2007 11:45am
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    okcomputer
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    I need to get out of my NTHell at the moment and considering BT or smart.
    I would love smart but i dont want to pay for the phone calls for the whole house,
    where BT do standalone broadband (we have an eircom account that my dad pays for)

    Do BT enforce the cap and what is the contention like?
    Smart claim there is no contention at all, you have your own line?
    Is there anyone else I should be considering?


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    dub45
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 12,448 Mod ✭✭✭✭dub45


    okcomputer wrote:
    I need to get out of my NTHell at the moment and considering BT or smart.
    I would love smart but i dont want to pay for the phone calls for the whole house,
    where BT do standalone broadband (we have an eircom account that my dad pays for)

    Do BT enforce the cap and what is the contention like?
    Smart claim there is no contention at all, you have your own line?
    Is there anyone else I should be considering?

    Sign up with Smart and lock up all the phone handsets!:)


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    pete4130
    Registered Users Posts: 3,944 ✭✭✭pete4130


    I had smart in my last house, 3mb DL no cap. Great broadband. Can't get smart where I'm living now so went with BT rather than my other option of Eircom. Got the BT in yesterday and its fast. Don't know what they do about the DL cap though? The BT router/modem only has 1 ethernet port on it compared to the Smart router which had 4 ports for multiple computers to be connected up to it.


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    grimm2005
    Registered Users Posts: 2,892 ✭✭✭grimm2005


    Ive been with BT since about july 2004 and can tell you that they dont enforce the cap at all. The only time they enforced it with me is once when i was cut off about 3 days before my cap being reset for going over my cap by 27gb, as the nice man at the end of the phone informed me :D


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    Liam Byrne
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    Smart have no DL limits - there is an "acceptable usage" policy, which presumably mean that if you're on 24/7 constantly downloading, they reserve the right to impose something, but I've never had a problem.

    Smart have 1:1 contention, which means that the speeds are pretty constant all the time.....there have been some comments on what the impact on the backhaul network would be if Smart suddenly got loads more customers, but given my dealings with them I reckon that if that happened, they'd be happy enough to invest in an upgrade.


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