Just got a snot-o-gram from BT ...
QuoteFair Usage Policy
Dear Customer,
We hope you're enjoying your broadband service, and all the great features that BT Broadband has to offer.
Fair Usage Policy
We're writing to you now because we would like to remind you about our Fair Usage Policy, which includes monthly usage guidelines.
Your monthly usage guidelines refer to how much data you download (receive emails, web pages and files) or upload (send emails and files), up to the GB guideline that you chose.
More about Fair Usage Policy
Your usage
In our terms and conditions, which you accepted when you signed up for BT Broadband Option 4, you agreed to an inclusive usage guideline of 40 GB. However, we've noticed that you have exceeded your usage guideline. For example, your usage last month was 67.82 GB.
What happens next
If you continue to exceed your usage guideline, we'll contact you again next month about charges for your excess usage. The charge will be £1.00 (inc. VAT) per GB.
More about charges for excess usage
Further help
BT Broadband Option 4 offers an impressive range of features, tools and services - all designed to help you make the most of your internet connection. And we hope you're happy with your broadband service.
For help with managing your usage and staying within your guideline, please go to our usage calculator, which can estimate your usage for some typical online activities.
If you have any queries about this email, please call free on
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Thank you for choosing BT Broadband.
Best wishes,
BT Broadband team
67.82 GB :blink:
What? Who? When?
I can't even blame Frenzy. :blush:
:roflmao:
Where you downloading some pr0n for the LAN? :lmfao:
BTW: Several BF2patches and so might take up a fair share aswell.
Hope you get it sorted though!
by crist.
wth
how the hell did u do that
Most people would struggle to reach that 40gig limit, let alone exceed it by over 50%!!!
I'm sure it was for a good cause though ;)
Good luck restraining yourself...
Mmmm.
BF2 Patch 1.00 to 1.67 at 1 Gb each would do it :)
Does anyone know like a website i can look at to have a look at how much usage is used, example. Online gaming (so many hours = Usage) , Time online, etc..
Just interested in a estimate of what i do monthly , dont know how you got to 67.82 GB, Download alot of movies?
I do about 30GB a month and I dont dl movies and such. It primarily comes from streaming with Pandora :)
QuoteOriginally posted by delanvital@Apr 3 2006, 09:40 PM
I do about 30GB a month and I dont dl movies and such. It primarily comes from streaming with Pandora :)
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No wonder she's always in a private show when I check her availability :P
I also do about 30GB per month but that's mainly movies. A typical movie is about 700mb but I guess you can double it 'cause of the upload amount.
PEN
You been downloading Torrents at all?
um, don't you work for BT?
Business....that's the way forward. No caps here, and I do download more than my fair share.
Im just waiting for my snotty letter at the end of this month, I think I have already got close to my cap in the last 4 or 5 days!!!!
I have had a LOT of patches to download!
Just some quick calcs:
67.82GB
=582,569,364,029 bits
On a 512Kbps ADSL line that is equivalent to over 13 days in the month of solid 512Kbps downloading with no allowance for parity, loss, choke or plain old 'other use'.
You've been screwed.......... and let's face it, they like you cos they pay you at the end of every month, so what hope have the rest of us got? :P
TL.
QuoteOriginally posted by TeaLeaf@Apr 4 2006, 03:14 PM
Just some quick calcs:
67.82GB
=582,569,364,029 bits
On a 512Kbps ADSL line that is equivalent to over 13 days in the month of solid 512Kbps downloading with no allowance for parity, loss, choke or plain old 'other use'.
You've been screwed.......... and let's face it, they like you cos they pay you at the end of every month, so what hope have the rest of us got? :P
TL.
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Actually that must be even more time - the effective use of a 512Kbit line is typically 59 kB/s which is 472 Kbit.. so it must be close to 10 % more? :)
2MB ADSL so it's not so impossible. :whistle:
:roflmao: :roflmao:
I don't want to know! :lmfao: :lmfao:
TL.
Im with you on that OB, especailly with the DL speeds you get. I nearly passed out when I saw my new DL speeds!!!
over 200k per sec! as aposed to the 5k per sec that I did get!
QuoteOriginally posted by sheepy@Apr 4 2006, 03:23 PM
Im with you on that OB, especailly with the DL speeds you get. I nearly passed out when I saw my new DL speeds!!!
over 200k per sec! as aposed to the 5k per sec that I did get!
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And going up to 8MB this month :D
QuoteOriginally posted by sheepy+Apr 4 2006, 03:23 PM-->QUOTE(sheepy @ Apr 4 2006, 03:23 PM)
Im with you on that OB, especailly with the DL speeds you get. I nearly passed out when I saw my new DL speeds!!!
over 200k per sec! as aposed to the 5k per sec that I did get!
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:lmfao:
Here I am still stuck on an "Res Official" BT Business line at 512k. :(
Sn00ks we need to get this sorted.
Okay, put us out of our misery, whats the phone number actually for on the 'Sheepy' version.
ha ha ha, very funny.
Thing is there is no way im going to pay to DL pr0n when we have a LAN coming up soon!
QuoteOriginally posted by Liberator@Apr 4 2006, 10:08 PM
Here I am still stuck on an "Res Official" BT Business line at 512k. :(
Sn00ks we need to get this sorted.
Okay, put us out of our misery, whats the phone number actually for on the 'Sheepy' version.
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It may be slow but there are no caps on it at all. :devil: :dribble:
QuoteOriginally posted by OldBloke@Apr 4 2006, 03:42 PM
And going up to 8MB this month :D
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Confirmed for the 12th April for me :D
git
i think the 212k per sec was a one off, im getting 50k per sec constantly now