BT fair usage policy

rayer · 1 Aug 2009 at 18:03

I have just been notified by BT that because I have exceeded the 100GB limit for this month, my speed restriction is now dropped to 1Mb for 30 days.

Is this normal practise for ISP's or just BT being a pain the the ****

Hxc · 1 Aug 2009 at 18:07

1gb? What kind of super budget BT package are you on?

CliffyBiro · 1 Aug 2009 at 18:07

rayer said:
I have just been notified by BT that because I have exceeded the 1GB limit for this month, my speed restriction is now dropped to 1Mb for 30 days.

Is this normal practise for ISP's or just BT being a pain the the ****

1gb limit?

I have a 10gb limit and they charge me a quid or something for every gb I go over that. Sometimes reaching £25 in overuse fees.

shauncr91 · 1 Aug 2009 at 18:07

Get a better package if you aren't happy with the 1gb cap ?

God 1gb...I don't think I could survive if I had that

Azagoth · 1 Aug 2009 at 18:09

How the hell did you manage to exceed the full 1GB limit in a month? You weren't looking at text and pictures at the same time were you?

Kennysevenfold · 1 Aug 2009 at 18:10

I had this problem about a year ago...and i want on unlimited usage

Swordfish · 1 Aug 2009 at 18:11

Azagoth said:
How the hell did you manage to exceed the full 1GB limit in a month? You weren't looking at text and pictures at the same time were you?

LOL

Serioulsy 1 GB is a poor cap. I thought Sky had the lowest at 2GB.

EDIT : Just looked at the BT site and the lowest I could see was 10GB. Perhapas the OP meant 10GB

rayer · 1 Aug 2009 at 18:14

Sorry, I meant 100GB, sorry for the typo

Vonhelmet · 1 Aug 2009 at 18:14

I just get charged for excess bandwidth with bt. They've never capped my usage.

rayer · 1 Aug 2009 at 18:14

Azagoth said:
How the hell did you manage to exceed the full 1GB limit in a month? You weren't looking at text and pictures at the same time were you?

rayer · 1 Aug 2009 at 18:16

BT offer an Option 3 package of 'unlimited downloads' but apparently if you go over 100GB a month, they drop your speed down to 1Mb..... :rolleyes:

Vonhelmet · 1 Aug 2009 at 18:17

rayer said:
BT offer an Option 3 package of 'unlimited downloads' but apparently if you go over 100GB a month, they drop your speed down to 1Mb.....

You sound surprised. Unlimited hasn't meant unlimited for years when it comes to broadband.

SlyReaper · 1 Aug 2009 at 18:19

Well it is unlimited from a certain point of view, because they're not actually cutting you off.

Vonhelmet · 1 Aug 2009 at 18:19

That being said... 100gb in a month is 3gb per day. Just how much are you downloading off bittorrent? And yes, I'm sure it's all just linux isos.

NightSt@lk3r · 1 Aug 2009 at 18:20

Meh, don't get me started on BT and there bloody fair use policy.

malfunkshun · 1 Aug 2009 at 18:20

rayer said:
BT offer an Option 3 package of 'unlimited downloads' but apparently if you go over 100GB a month, they drop your speed down to 1Mb.....

I often exceed 100GB, not been throttled yet. As I understand it your account is more likely to get flagged if you have a lot of specific traffic

JaFFa · 1 Aug 2009 at 18:30

I had this happen they are throttling me from 6pm to 12. Ironically now I get much better speeds off peak. It's actually made it better for downloads. It's a bit annoying though as I can't watch iplayer at night. May switch to O2... but then that's what they want!

Liquidfox · 1 Aug 2009 at 18:52

We've just had a business customer get throttled to 1MB after exceeding 100GB for two months in a row... supposedly they were downloading a load of catalogues from the States... yeah, "catalogues"

marlos · 1 Aug 2009 at 19:00

BT suck.

marc2003 · 1 Aug 2009 at 19:15

JaFFa said:
May switch to O2... but then that's what they want!

you have o2 in your area but haven't signed up? you're mad! at the moment you can get 2 months free and 50 sheets cashback from quidco. and even more money off if you have an o2 moible.