acceptable usage

[Mr-White]

What's considered as acceptable usage by ISPs these days ? I seem to get through gigs and gigs with little effort with so much digital content on the web

MW

 

[HarryPainful]

Varies between ISP's

 

[Randomface74]

Until you get a letter, who cares.

 

[Mr-White]

Until you get a letter, who cares.

Me, i'd rather not get a letter or traffic managed

MW

 

[Caged]

I'm not quite sure how you expect to get a reply when you haven't even mentioned what ISP or package you're on.

 

[Mr-White]

o2
standard package, although i've just noticed I can upgrade to 20mb for an extra £2.45 a month

MW

 

[leoncc]

I download about 300-400gb per month on BE and never had any problems

 

[wakayoda]

if you live in London 20mb would be good but most places don't get over 8mb

 

[Caged]

What speed do you sync at?

 

[G1BB0]

bt is 100gb then they restrict you to 1mb for 30 days during peak times!!! I get my bband free as an engineer but am actually going to change to sky as its uncapped.

 

[_lecro_]

Sky pwns...

BTW +NET SUCKS,incase you needed confirmation

 

[lemzip]

yep, varies between ips's but on general, everything is on the increase due to iplayer/etc.

 

[poosemon]

im on postoffice and havn't had anything yet, getting close to 100gb a month atm

 

[Rroff]

BE is about the only one atm where you can pretty much hit it hard and not worry... sky isn't too bad for that...

Most ISPs get funny around 40-60gig on the higher end packages... tho imo in this day and age ~150-160gig should be the acceptable fair use level for the top end packages :S

I'm on BT they send an 80gig warning and then a 100gig "your gonna be capped for 30 days" - but infact the 80gig warning is when they start the capping... and it seems to be triggered once your useage (and I am including both up and down) hits about 50gig

I got an 80gig warning for Oct - and according to my router I'd only used just over 41gig combined... but I did lose a few days off the start of the month on the stats which I estimate was about 5-6gig. Month before that was just over 60gig - got a warning... month before that was ~70gig and got capped*... month before that we did indeed hit 200gig tho heh.


* Got the 80gig warning thursday night just before a weekend followed by a bankholiday - everyone else here left early Friday and weren't back til early tuesday and their PCs were off... clocked my own useage at 4gig... but got the 100gig warning on tuesday... nice one BT - maybe I should apply the reverse of that maths to how much I pay...

 

[Mr-White]

What speed do you sync at?

Currently syncs at 5.1mb
attenuation is 46.5
distance from the exchange is 1 mile
I'd guess with a little self control I'm doing 100gb a month

MW

 

[BunnYPandA]

im on postoffice and havn't had anything yet, getting close to 100gb a month atm

postoffice broadband dont have any way of monitoring usage. i know this cos i work for them

 

[Caged]

Currently syncs at 5.1mb
attenuation is 46.5
distance from the exchange is 1 mile
I'd guess with a little self control I'm doing 100gb a month

MW

Then there's no point upgrading to 20Mb.

 

[Beerbaron]

Why is that, will they not move you over to their LLU stuff?

 

[marc2003]

Why is that, will they not move you over to their LLU stuff?

as he's on the standard o2 package, he's already on LLU.

 

[Bloomfield]

BE is about the only one atm where you can pretty much hit it hard and not worry... sky isn't too bad for that...

Sky is the only ISP in the country to offer completely unlimited/no traffic management etc, so they're better than not too bad

If you're looking for an unlimited ISP, and you have o2 Be* or Sky available as LLU then any of those 3 would be a good choice. Be* and o2 have FUPs, however i've never heard of a single case where they have enforced it, both have no traffic shaping/management as far as i'm aware. As said, sky is completely unlimited, and doesn't have the FUP which may some day be enforced by o2 and Be*.

For sky you have to have Sky TV too tho.