BT Broadband/BT Yahoo! Broadband users get free 2MB upgrade!

mikelomax · Post by **mikelomax** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 4:47 pm

az_bont wrote:What happens if you go over? Does it charge you more, or drop your speed?

they employ a "3-strike" system that if you go over the cap three months in a row it drops down to 128k for that month. But if you don't go over the limit three times in a row then you're fine... At least that's what i think is explained on the website.

az_bont · Post by **az_bont** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 12:20 pm

mikelomax wrote:they employ a "3-strike" system that if you go over the cap three months in a row it drops down to 128k for that month. But if you don't go over the limit three times in a row then you're fine... At least that's what i think is explained on the website.

Seems a bit harsh

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Gmc · Post by **Gmc** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 12:57 pm

http://www.plus.net/features/usage_guide.shtml <- Explains the 3 usage level system.

Seems pretty fair to me.

az_bont · Post by **az_bont** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 5:48 pm

Well, the internet just went a little bit funny and disconnected for a minute, and on re-connecting I see that I am now on a 2.2Mbit line

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No letter from BT, and no news on how they're supposed to e-mail me to say I've almost used up the allocatted bandwidth as the old accounts never came with an e-mail account

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CyberMick · Post by **CyberMick** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 6:16 am

Im with Pipex and they recently e-mailed me saying they will be upgrading my ADSL to 1Meg. I have uncapped ADSL at the moment and they did not mention capping the 1Meg but if they do that kinda sucks as im my eyes it defeats having an unmetred continiously online connection.

Maybe BT are fed up with P2P software and maybe that is killing their bandwidths up on their ADSL lines so they are capping everyone.

I still feel that it is wrong as they lure you into the ADSL unmetred promise and all the rest of it and then a couple of years down the line when most people are on it you are capped with no choice in the matter.

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 9:02 am

NTL say I need a new digi box thing, I get upgraded to 1mb until that comes though

Egotistical EvilN · Post by **Egotistical EvilN** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 9:03 am

What if you want more than the max package?

mikelomax · Post by **mikelomax** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 10:10 am

EvilN wrote:What if you want more than the max package?

You probably have to pay more. A lot more...

area · Post by **area** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 10:59 am

ntl users can upgrade today. Go to http://www.ntlworld.com/data-feeds/edit ... Migration/ and hope you're in the areas that support upgrading online. I was, and it was a marvellously simple process.

Nyarlathotep · Post by **Nyarlathotep** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 12:43 pm

area wrote:ntl users can upgrade today. Go to http://www.ntlworld.com/data-feeds/edit ... Migration/ and hope you're in the areas that support upgrading online. I was, and it was a marvellously simple process.

Thanks for the link

EDIT: I can happily live with a Gb a day cap

EDIT2: Getting 200kps dl speed on republic commando demo.... nice

Hawq · Post by **Hawq** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 2:01 pm

CyberMick wrote:Im with Pipex and they recently e-mailed me saying they will be upgrading my ADSL to 1Meg. I have uncapped ADSL at the moment and they did not mention capping the 1Meg but if they do that kinda sucks as im my eyes it defeats having an unmetred continiously online connection.

Maybe BT are fed up with P2P software and maybe that is killing their bandwidths up on their ADSL lines so they are capping everyone.

I still feel that it is wrong as they lure you into the ADSL unmetred promise and all the rest of it and then a couple of years down the line when most people are on it you are capped with no choice in the matter.

As the site still says the only capped ones are the lite packages those of us not on them should be fine, it should stay that way with luck

CyberMick · Post by **CyberMick** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 4:25 pm

I hope you are right Hawq I would hate to have a cap. like you said Pipex have Lite versions with capping and I don't have that package so hopefully they will leave it as it is.

Does capping affect online gaming?

mikelomax · Post by **mikelomax** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 6:38 pm

CyberMick wrote:Does capping affect online gaming?

Yes, but only the information that you download counts.

CyberMick · Post by **CyberMick** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 11:53 am

mikelomax wrote:
CyberMick wrote:Does capping affect online gaming?
Yes, but only the information that you download counts.

Thanks for the info mikelomax.

mattcky666 · Post by **mattcky666** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 5:21 am

yea bt should have upgraded mine recently but somethings wrong with my connection (probably the bt line), should be fixed within the week though

Hawq · Post by **Hawq** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 1:44 pm

I'd expect most of the country to not get the full advantage of the speeds increases due to the crappy bt network, hopefully upgrdaes will be done to that as well but probably not for ages