New Cap for Eircom Home starter plus

Mutant_Fruit

CyberGhost wrote:

but in that picture it looks like you had 16gb cap from sept 2004?

In their server, i'd say they had one global "cap" value stored somewhere, and all they did was change that value from 8gb to 16gb. Basically, this means that all old months will end up being recalculated at the new cap allowance. That would be the easiest way to code it, and i'd be very surprised if they coded it a different way.

Infini

I might not be on eircom's package anymore (Thank God) but at 16GB I can see that cap falling behind pretty quickly within a few month and everyone will be back to square one again. At least with the possible 32GB cap on esats package your looking at a more reasonable and better package.

Basq

Definantly agree with you there, Infini!

Eircom will always be the runners-up regarding their Broadband service (caps, etc)... in fact, they're probably not only the runner's up but they're always in last place!

I made the stupid mistake of buying that Eircom Wireless Router off them just as my contract was ending... so i think i'm bound to another 12 month contract with the f*ckers.

RobertFoster

Much nicer/more detailed meter than what we've got on IOL.

jor el

It'd be nice to have a stat monitor like that on IOL too. Much nicer. I wonder though have Esat upped the limits without telling anyone. My current usage is

and that's sine I was connected on the 15th. So I'm using a little over 1G a day but have had no warning about the possibility of exceeding the cap, which they normall do. I will be over the 16G limit by 1.5G at the end of the month, in 3 days, if my current usage keeps up.

Here's hoping that it has gone up, or been removed.

Chalk

so we wont be getting a realistic cap on eircom?
whats new tbh...


on the plus side 7 gigs to download in the next 48hrs wheeee

so many "linus isos"

segadreamcast

I just discovered I'm using about 300MB's a month...time to downgrade methinks!

CyberGhost

like I said previously, I think they do increase caps, but don't tell public, unless asked about it, if no one asks, let them think it's still the same

radiospan

NoelRock wrote:

I just discovered I'm using about 300MB's a month...time to downgrade methinks!

Wow, that's only 10MB a day?

Clover

NoelRock wrote:

I just discovered I'm using about 300MB's a month...time to downgrade methinks!

well if your with eircom you can find a link on there site to downgrade from home starter plus to home starter .

but i'm trying to upgrade from home starter to home starter plus ( the 2 meg down is worth the extra €30 per bill imo) and can't find a link to do it on there site and i rang there broadband sales and was on hold for about 20 mins :mad: .

Clover

Clover wrote:

well if your with eircom you can find a link on there site to downgrade from home starter plus to home starter .

but i'm trying to upgrade from home starter to home starter plus ( the 2 meg down is worth the extra €30 per bill imo) and can't find a link to do it on there site and i rang there broadband sales and was on hold for about 20 mins :mad: .

I have the exact same problem! I could only find the link for downgrading. Rang them up, was put on hold for half an hour, so I hung up. Does anyone know if they charge you anything for upgrading/downgrading?

Basq

Kenny007 wrote:

I have the exact same problem! I could only find the link for downgrading. Rang them up, was put on hold for half an hour, so I hung up. Does anyone know if they charge you anything for upgrading/downgrading?

Yeah, actually i think they brought it a charge for downgrading.

basquille

basquille wrote:

Yeah, actually i think they brought it a charge for downgrading.

Any idea if they charge for upgrading?

diarmo

Back in November '04 there was no charge for upgrading.

Unsure what their current policy is but it should be gratis to upgrade and thus give them more money anyway!

miju

here lads an lassies how does one check how much of their cap they've used AFAIK i've an 8GB cap but i'd be curious to see how much of that i've used up in the last month

diarmo

_raptor_,

Telling us your ISP would be the BIGGEST help....it really would you know?!?!

BTW.
iolBB/esatBT

http://broadband.iol.ie/cgi-bin/sec/dsl
http://broadband.iol.ie/cgi-bin/sec/dslhistory

_raptor_

_raptor_ wrote:

here lads an lassies how does one check how much of their cap they've used AFAIK i've an 8GB cap but i'd be curious to see how much of that i've used up in the last month

Well if you're on Eircom, check here

aidan_walsh

Kenny007 wrote:

Well if you're on Eircom, check here

The conveluted IP being replaceable with dslstats.eircom.net

miju

yeah that wuda been a big help (doh) im on eircom and got it sorted thanks guys

OfflerCrocGod

Infini wrote:

At least with the possible 32GB cap on esats package your looking at a more reasonable and better package.

"possible" being the important word there.

SkepticOne

It should be able to accomodate 32 gb quite easily if it handles 16 now. The maximum backhaul bandwidth is being increased by a factor of 4.

oneweb

Eircom
Home Starter goes from...
Speed 512/128 to 1024/128
Download 4 GB to 8G
Support number 1530 to 1890
Modem Combi to WIFI

Home Plus...
Speed 512/128 to 2048/128
Download 8GB to 16GB
Modem 4 Port to WIFI

Business packages have similar upgrades,
Business Starter...
Speed 512-2048
Download 8-20GB

Business Plus
Speed 1024-3072
Download 12-40GB

Enhanced
Speed 2048-4096

Migrations overnight 2nd April, downtime 20 seconds to 2 minutes.
Mailings going out 31st, 1st and 4th

Chalk

busineess starter going to 20gig cap?
i thought it was the same package as home plus?

radiospan

Nice one, oneweb. So we should have our upgrades on Sunday.

Surely the other ISPs which give 16GB caps will be upping theirs to at least 20GB? Judging by how much eircon are increasing theirs by anyway.

diarmo

I hope EsatBt up their current 16GB cap to a nice round 30!!!

Because if they dont...shock/horror...they WILL loose out on customers as Eircom have no broadband connection charge...whereas esatBt have a €80/90 charge depending on your broadband service!

Tech Pete

looks like esat wont touch their caps...

vibe666

Tech Pete wrote:

looks like esat wont touch their caps...

looks like i'm fooked then.

newbie2

Eircom
Home Starter goes from...
Speed 512/128 to 1024/128
Download 4 GB to 8G
Support number 1530 to 1890
Modem Combi to WIFI

Home Plus...
Speed 512/128 to 2048/128
Download 8GB to 16GB
Modem 4 Port to WIFI

Business packages have similar upgrades,
Business Starter...
Speed 512-2048
Download 8-20GB

Business Plus
Speed 1024-3072
Download 12-40GB

Enhanced
Speed 2048-4096

Migrations overnight 2nd April, downtime 20 seconds to 2 minutes.
Mailings going out 31st, 1st and 4th

Got my letter today.........:D

Wertz

Basquille wrote:

You on Mars these day, Wertz!?

It was announced a couple of weeks back that existing Eircom customers (and a couple of other ISP's as well) were upgrading from 512KB to 2MB.

Same cost... and according to this thread, the caps will seemingly be doubled!

Happy days! 16GB cap on Eircom isn't bad.. but am i alone in wanting more than that? Considering Esat have been offering that up until now.

Ah. I'm so contented in my haze of torrents that I've not been keeping up with things. Last I heard Smart was gonna pwn the whole DSL market with 2mb lines for tuppence per decade or something...

Now can anyone tell me (or link me) about Esat's next move here? Is my 512k about to go supersonic? If so, that 16gigs isn't gonna last pissing time. If Smart f**k up in my area I may be *shock horror* forced to retrun to the crafty clutches of our fabulous ex-semi-state telecoms provider...
Strange times indeed

diarmo

The way I view the download cap is that:

A GByte on wholesale is only a couple of cent and it only takes a couple of software modifications on the ISP's side to change a CAP of 8GB to 16GB or 16GB to 32GB.

Such modifications can be done with 1 days notice.

So come on EsatBT.....wake up and respond in kind to eircom!!!