Eircom download limit?

danoxx1

so u download for the sack of downloading??? and your with eircom:pac:

danoxx1

danoxx1 wrote: »

so u download for the sack of downloading??? and your with eircom:pac:

It's spelt "sake" for the benefit of yourself and the others who might spend a few seconds trying to figure out what you mean.

ntlbell

danoxx1 wrote: »

so u download for the sack of downloading??? and your with eircom:pac:

I don't, but that's what generally causes the high usage, people downloading nonsense because they can and the other half moaning about the poor speeds :pac:

I wouldn't use 300GB in 6 years, never mind a month.

danoxx1

Their is no limit just to reinforce but trust yourself that it wouldn't be you but make sure if you do go over make sure its not over 50gb 2c per mb so 50 gb over is 51200 near 750 euro so be CAREFUL and keep up to date with this page because if any body gets charged it will be on http:www.boards.ie/:D:D

danoxx1

ok eircom is good for people who say it sucks please move!!!!!

danoxx1

has anyone got caught illegally downloading from any site or do u think their will be ????

Black Lead

PogMoThoin wrote: »

They don't charge, my monthly average has always been 100GB and my may download total was 200GB without a word

I just checked my usage and its the same as yours around 100 GB a month with a May high of 224 GB. December 2009 was 120 GB

I wonder what was going on in May to warrant so much internet usage ?

I emailed them about the download limit a while back. They said they are working on a new stats page which will have the correct 50GB limit instead of the 40GB limit it currently shows. I wonder will they crack down on overuse when they bring this out? Surely you guys downloading 200GB of crap are having a negative effect on those who keep to the limit?

dub45

There are people on here who will not be happy until Eircom actually start charging:rolleyes: They dont charge at the moment - under the terms and conditions they are entitled to - so why not just enjoy the facility and for God's sake stop starting threads on total non issues.

danoxx1

I sent them a query (eircom) about the cap as a advertiser came to my door i ordered the package from him and i ask him if i go over what will happen he said there is 100% no cap! so i have shortened it down and sent this to eircom so i will post the results as soon as they come in stay on htttp:www.boards.ie/ to be updated on the best irish forums:D:D:D:D:pac:

dazman2250

Mate, everybody is in complete agreement there is NO charge for going over the limit so why email them? Just leave it alone!

dazman2250

dazman2250 wrote: »

Mate, everybody is in complete agreement there is NO charge for going over the limit so why email them? Just leave it alone!

:rolleyes: lol He contacted Eircom asking why they don't charge? :rolleyes:

onlinegamer

heads up

my neibhour got hit with a bill of 600 euro on there FIRST ever ericom bill! about 6 months ago., she rang eircom support and they said there was 5-6 different computers/laptops connected on her account that month! obviously she had left her router password as defaut and some very smart neibhours logged on, and it didn't help when she told me her son d/l console games at 3 & 4 gig a shot!!

I Would love to see for myself how many gigs she went over but i wouldnt be that cheaky to ask, she has sinced changed her password and watches her monthly allowence every DAY for activity!

THEMAVS4LIFE

If onlinegamer is telling the truth which he might be.

Us eircom users are in trouble so u were told!



Yet Danoxx1 Says in previous posts that a advertiser came to his door and he stated that their is no limit is danoxx1 telling the truth or is onlinegamer.:mad:

dub45

If or when Eircom start to charge people boards will be flooded with posts. Its flooded with them anyway and they don't charge!!!!

For God's sake give it a rest.:rolleyes:

Cabaal

dub45 wrote: »

If or when Eircom start to charge people boards will be flooded with posts. Its flooded with them anyway and they don't charge!!!!

For God's sake give it a rest.:rolleyes:

I'd fully agree and until I actually see a scanned Eircom bill showing that they are charging for going over caps I don't think I'll believe it.

Funny thing about it is Eircom have always reserved the right to charge for going over the cap so the customer has no leg to stand on really.

I wish Eircom would do a thing like utv do with an extra fee to download more...for example I believe utv charge something like €10 extra and you have unlimited usage (which is probably 200GB). €10 is a small price to pay for peace of mind.

dub45

Deleted User wrote: »

I wish Eircom would do a thing like utv do with an extra fee to download more...for example I believe utv charge something like €10 extra and you have unlimited usage (which is probably 200GB). €10 is a small price to pay for peace of mind.

So you want Eircom to introduce a product to give you peace of mind which would effectively mean enforcing the cap on everyone else who didnt want to pay the €10 extra:rolleyes::rolleyes:

Eircom have never enforced caps - they dont choke people's line etc etc and people are still not happy:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

If you want peace of mind don't exceed the limits which you accepted when you signed up for bb or join UTV and pay your €10 a month.

dub45

dub45 wrote: »

So you want Eircom to introduce a product to give you peace of mind which would effectively mean enforcing the cap on everyone else who didnt want to pay the €10 extra:rolleyes::rolleyes:

Eircom have never enforced caps - they dont choke people's line etc etc and people are still not happy:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

If you want peace of mind don't exceed the limits which you accepted when you signed up for bb or join UTV and pay your €10 a month.

I must be very silly because that's a lot of :rolleyes:........... . Like I said earlier I never have exceeded the limit. It was just a suggestion ................

dub45

I am constantly exasperated by this nonsense to be honest.

Here we have the isp with the largest number of customers in the country allowing them to download without any limits and we get endless posts on here about them wondering when it will all end - and the cyber myth of someone who knows someone else whose aunty downloads endless amounts of porn (well either her or her neighbour's 7 year old whos a wiz at cracking wpa) and whose bill is being taken over by NAMA because its so big and she cant pay.

It is almost as if people are goading them to charge. Please please ban these threads.

onlinegamer

This is like the time I announced one of the biggest bargin alerts of the year last year, no body beleaved me untill i took a photo of my till receipt
see here > http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055448787

This time it is hard to get hold of the proof as the bill is not for my house, but you can take it with a pinch of salt if you like. when it comes to surface with other eircom customers you can think back to this thread.

Take care

onlinegamer

Dub45 why do you request to ban threads like this one? is it because i dont have evidence ?

Tbh I am taken back by this replys by members and moderators who dont want to hear somthing that IS the truth! and has happened. IN this thread and my other bargin alert thread for example

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All I can do is ask the neibhour in question for a look at her bill and show everyone here and all, however if some neibhour came looking to have a look at my bill i would tell them where to sling their hook, il see how i get on

dub45

dub45 wrote: »

I am constantly exasperated by this nonsense to be honest.

Here we have the isp with the largest number of customers in the country allowing them to download without any limits and we get endless posts on here about them wondering when it will all end - and the cyber myth of someone who knows someone else whose aunty downloads endless amounts of porn (well either her or her neighbour's 7 year old whos a wiz at cracking wpa) and whose bill is being taken over by NAMA because its so big and she cant pay.

It is almost as if people are goading them to charge. Please please ban these threads.

Well what would you prefer? A small payment of about €10 for as much as you want or getting hit with a monster bill of 1c per 1mb and also the possibility of being charged for previous month's excesses?

Cabaal

To be honest rather then this pure speculation some evidence would be nice, if its a friend or something it shouldn't be a big deal to scan or take a photo of that part of his bill....you could easily black out any of his details

dub45

onlinegamer wrote: »

Dub45 why do you request to ban threads like this one? is it because i dont have evidence ?

Tbh I am taken back by this replys by members and moderators who dont want to hear somthing that IS the truth! and has happened. IN this thread and my other bargin alert thread for example

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All I can do is ask the neibhour in question for a look at her bill and show everyone here and all, however if some neibhour came looking to have a look at my bill i would tell them where to sling their hook, il see how i get on

I asked that the threads be banned in exasperation (not with any real expectations of course) at the nonsense that is regularly spouted here about a complete non event. You have produced no evidence for your claim - a variaton on which is often throtted out on here.

As I have pointed out to the extent that even I am fed up reading me, Eircom do not charge for going over the cap and yet people go on here endlessly about it as if they will only be happy when it actually happens.

As long as I have been on Boards (for more years than I care to remember as the ad used to say) I dont think I have ever read a post from some who was actually charged. That's not to say that it has not happened however I and other people on here have yet to see the evidence.

Now let me give you a good example of how boards generally reflects what happens out there. I actually know several people who themselves would not have been aware of boards that had awful experiences with BT in the heydays of their regular billing fiascos. Now those peoples' experiences were regularly reflected by posts on boards. So if an isp is doing something which affects a considerable amount of its customers it will find its way to boards.

There is a famous Sherlock Holmes story called 'The dog that didnt bark in the night'' now the dog not barking in this case to use the analogy are all the customers of Eircom who are not being charged for going over the limit and who are not consequently posting on here moaning.

So lets say Eircom have 500,0000 customers and lets say for example a mere 5% of them were to be charged in a billing period for excessive downloading - thats 25,000 customers or even halve that to 2.5% and its 12,5000 customers - now because those people being charged are heavy downloaders, invariably some of them would be boards members, do you not think that boards would be deluged with moans and groans not to mention all they people who would be happy at last that they now have another reason to slag Eircom. The same would happen if Eircom were to throttle the connections of heavy downloaders.

onlinegamer wrote: »

Tbh I am taken back by this replys by members and moderators who dont want to hear somthing that IS the truth! and has happened.

We actually do want to hear something that is the truth by the way but you have not posted that - you have posted hearsay until you back it up.

dub45

Deleted User wrote: »

Well what would you prefer? A small payment of about €10 for as much as you want or getting hit with a monster bill of 1c per 1mb and also the possibility of being charged for previous month's excesses?

As I pointed out to your post above, for Eircom to introduce such a product would mean by definition, that they would have to start charging people who went over the cap, otherwise a product which cost extra and which involved unlimited downloading would be irrelevant if not farcical. (As presumably people paying for the 'enhanced' product would soon stop paying for it if the others were not being charged for exceeding the cap)

So in other words to solve the 'non problem' of Eircom not charging people for exceeding the cap you want them to start charging people for exceeding the cap? (Only I used so many :rolleyes: in the other post I would throw in a few more here:) )

As I suggested in response to your previous post if people want peace of mind then stay within the Eircom terms and conditions or go to UTV.

dub45

dub45 wrote: »

As I pointed out to your post above, for Eircom to introduce such a product would mean by definition, that they would have to start charging people who went over the cap, otherwise a product which cost extra and which involved unlimited downloading would be irrelevant if not farcical. (As presumably people paying for the 'enhanced' product would soon stop paying for it if the others were not being charged for exceeding the cap)

So in other words to solve the 'non problem' of Eircom not charging people for exceeding the cap you want them to start charging people for exceeding the cap? (Only I used so many :rolleyes: in the other post I would throw in a few more here:) )

As I suggested in response to your previous post if people want peace of mind then stay within the Eircom terms and conditions or go to UTV.

But according to onlinegamer they are charging. My suggestion was based on the fact that they are charging or will do so in the future. If they brought out such an unlimited charge I'd pay for it regardless of what they do to others. As what was posted earlier they reserve the right to charge at the moment. I'd pay it out of honesty even if they don't charge others....I like to pay for what I use. Why is that so ridiculous to you?

PogMoThoin

Not charging, never have.

Here's my monthly downloaded amounts, with me running downloads at night, kids in Youtube, Skype and Msn etc, it all adds up, some months were absolutely huge (may was 190+GB:eek: suprised me), others not much over but every month except one were over. I don't even check anymore

dub45

The rain must have stopped in July for a day or two?

jor el

onlinegamer wrote: »

Tbh I am taken back by this replys by members and moderators who dont want to hear somthing that IS the truth! and has happened. IN this thread and my other bargin alert thread for example

It's not that we don't believe you, per say, but we've heard this so many times, going back years now, and it has never been the truth. Everyone of those who claim it's a fact that eircom charge for excess usage have never been able to prove anything, and it's invariably never their bill. It's always some one else, who's bill they can't get hold of.

So until I see an actual bill, I won't believe that eircom are charging for excess. It may well be happening, but I'm not going to take it as fact until I have facts.

It could also be that your neighbour is mistaken, or it could be that they're not even an eircom customer (it happens, people often don't even know what company provides a service they use).

Personally, I don't care if they are charging, it means nothing to me.