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UPC Data Usage per month

  • 29-01-2011 10:49am
    #1
    Deedsie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,275 ✭✭✭


    Hi, I am sharing a house and we have UPC broadband. Is there a way of viewing what your usage is? We don't want to go over our limit, but it's hard to know what we have used already without some system in place to record it?

    Hope someone can help,

    Thanks


Comments

  • #2
    jor el
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,713 ✭✭✭✭jor el


    You have to ring UPC to find out, there is no readily available tracker.


  • #3
    Deedsie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,275 ✭✭✭Deedsie


    That's insane, what kind of service is that? Is there a particular number you ring?


  • #4
    What? Oh Rly!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 153 ✭✭What? Oh Rly!


    Use something like this: http://www.simplehelp.net/2007/09/09/how-to-monitor-your-internet-bandwidth-usage-in-windows/


  • #5
    dub45
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 12,450 Mod ✭✭✭✭dub45


    Deedsie wrote: »
    That's insane, what kind of service is that? Is there a particular number you ring?

    It is absurd that any company can "tell" customers what they are using and charge accordingly without any way for the customer to monitor their usage.

    Imagine if gas and electricity were charged for like that?


  • #6
    TanG411
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,836 ✭✭✭TanG411


    I imagine you could ring UPC on 1908, the number for their customers. It is completely free, but at times you could be waiting on hold for a while.


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  • #7
    bealtine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,051 ✭✭✭bealtine


    dub45 wrote: »
    It is absurd that any company can "tell" customers what they are using and charge accordingly without any way for the customer to monitor their usage.

    I was just thinking that...it's outrageous.


  • #8
    rai555
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 767 ✭✭✭rai555


    Did somebody paid UPC for data above dedicated limit ( above fair usage ) ;) ?


  • #9
    vibe666
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,016 ✭✭✭✭vibe666


    rai555 wrote: »
    Did somebody paid UPC for data above dedicated limit ( above fair usage ) ;) ?
    they stopped calling it "fair" usage quite a while ago, it's "acceptable" usage now.

    no doubt someone in their legal department decided it would leave them open to litigation. :)

    you don't get charged for going over, you get moved to a higher package (at a higher charge). :pac:

    yes, it's still BS, but it's what we're stuck with for now until someone fights itand wins (or not, as the case may be).


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