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prices per Gb ?

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  • 01-04-2009 3:36pm
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    gowger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 30 ✭


    Hi all,

    Apologies if this has been asked before but is there a website that compares the prices per Gb of the various broadband providers? I presume there are no capless providers left in ireland ...

    In case anyone's interested here are my figures from Digiweb:

    product rate (Mbps) cap (Gb/month) Price (€) price per GB (€)
    Metro Home 8 30 40 1.33
    Metro Home + 8 40 46 1.15
    Metro Xtra 12 50 60 1.2
    Metro Xtra + 12 70 70 1


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    Black_Knight
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    UPC dont have a cap if you get their 10 or 20 mb line.


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    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,197 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    No cap with Smart.


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    BaconZombie
    Registered Users Posts: 8,813 ✭✭✭BaconZombie


    Smart Telecom do not have a cap either and also don't filter any traffic {expect port 25 SMTP } unlike UPC
    gowger wrote: »
    Hi all,

    Apologies if this has been asked before but is there a website that compares the prices per Gb of the various broadband providers? I presume there are no capless providers left in ireland ...

    In case anyone's interested here are my figures from Digiweb:

    product rate (Mbps) cap (Gb/month) Price (€) price per GB (€)
    Metro Home 8 30 40 1.33
    Metro Home + 8 40 46 1.15
    Metro Xtra 12 50 60 1.2
    Metro Xtra + 12 70 70 1


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


    Read this
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=58094826&postcount=11


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    gowger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 30 ✭gowger


    Cool, thanks for the replies.

    Also I hadn't realised Bt's 24Mb package has no cap!

    I'm wondering if a fair use policy could actually result in lower limits than when you pay up front for you're 70Gb a month for example.

    Has anyone managed to go beyond some providers fair use policy and got any figures to post ?

    Thanks for the link Cabaal.

    Technologies such as http://oneswarm.cs.washington.edu/ should ensure that the percentage of "heavy" users continues to go up, despite the eircoms of this world. ;-)


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    JohnC.
    Registered Users Posts: 3,426 ✭✭✭JohnC.


    BTs "unlimited" cap appears to be 100GB in a rolling 30 day period.


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    dunworth1
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    i think upcs fair use is around 250gb a month


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    CutzEr
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    UPC have the highest 'unlimited' package.

    However, UPC filter quite alot of services, torrents are a big hit.

    I would go with Smart if I were you. It is the smartest thing to do :P


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


    However Smart do have a FUP policy too. It's not absolutely unlimited. But is genuinely large.


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    Wcool
    Registered Users Posts: 640 ✭✭✭Wcool


    I switched from Digiweb to Airwire about a month ago. No cap.
    Went from 40 euro for 40Gb to 45 euro for no limit.
    Went down/up from 6mb (8 claimed)/512kb to 2mb/2mb.

    All I can say is: well worth it: no cap, no fup.


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