How long before you hit the cap ?

ic said:
Somewhere in there, probably 2.1 or something, I would like the option to be able to enable & disable the throttle when I still have bandwidth available in [a] or or both.
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That would be a great addition. I spend a lot of time playing chess online for which D/L speed is not at all critical. Most of my time is spent thinking. But a fair amount of data is repetively downloaded over the course of playing. I could save maybe 5-15MB a day with an option to self-throttle.

Let's hope Shaun reads this thread... sometime soon.
 
Gatecrasher said:
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Let's hope Shaun reads this thread... sometime soon.
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Yep, let's hope that Shaun will post a reply, or failing that anyone else @ WBS even the janitor is welcome to tell us the buzz over there :D

Any other nice to haves that we would like included in the Bandwidth Management & Throttling Specification, anyone? - we may as well get it all down pat now before WBS make a decision one way or the other (assuming they haven't already decided to ignore GC's spec).
 
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i download too much too quickly, ask slim and jjtoymachine. think it is time for me to slow down a bit, hummmmm.......
 
Hi Guys,

Apologies for the late response...

Be assured that you will not get charged if you do go over your cap and do not get dropped to the 64k speed.

Shaun
PS - Don't go to bars guys... you are being watched on this forum.
 
ive almost done 16GB this month (including 1st april)
 
My MB usage cannot be right

Hi guys

I posted this on iBurst technical support to no response. But I see it has been a busy day. :o

My bandwidth jumped from 200-odd MB to 1,8GB today. Now I've gathered periodic updates may have something to do with things. HOWEVER, I have been out almost all weekend (although my PC has been connected to iBurst). Further to this, I have monitored my "bytes received" box and from what I can see I did about 20MB this weekend.

I'm OK with the 3GB cap - I knew about this when I signed up. I'm OK with the 64k choke after the 3GB cap - I knew about this when I signed up. I'm certainly not OK with suspect accounting. I'm absolutely not OK with carry-overs of bandwidth use against the next month's cap. Please tell me where it says this.

Shaun: you guys have been friendly, I like the technology, I bought a modem and have been happily using a great service (good speeds, etc). I have referred about 10 others to iBurst. I have responded to others unreasonable posts in the iBurst forums. A friend and I have even wondered how we might invest in WBS. BUT this cap roll-over thing is completely outside of expectations - i.e. not fair and legally may give cause for every subscriber to have their contracts voided due to lack of consensus.

:mad:
 
Help!!

Hi Shaun

My post below refers:

TheLastBoyScout said:
I'm absolutely not OK with carry-overs of bandwidth use against the next month's cap. Please tell me where it says this.
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Your response has not clarified this.

Shaun Green said:
Hi Guys,

Apologies for the late response...

Be assured that you will not get charged if you do go over your cap and do not get dropped to the 64k speed.

Shaun
PS - Don't go to bars guys... you are being watched on this forum.
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The question is: will we be charged for usage once the cap comes into affect? I.e. will this usage come off our next month's bandwidth? :confused:
 
vowthorn said:
chill dude... Shaun has responded to this! Nothing to fret over a glitch that will be fixed.
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My second post refers:

TheLastBoyScout said:
The question is: will we be charged for usage once the cap comes into affect? I.e. will this usage come off our next month's bandwidth?
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Shaun said we will not be charged if the cap does not come into effect. I am asking: will we be charged for usage after the bandwidth cap comes into affect against the next month's 3GB?
 
At this early stage of ironing out glitches if you go over the 3 gig cap, you will not be charged for the additional bandwidth that you use at full speed and are not brought down to 64k. The difference will not be deducted from your next month of usage.

I am not saying there will not be errors made on our behalf. These will be repaired.
If things dont break, we will not know where repairs are needed and what preventative measures need to be in place.
 
'charging'

Just curious - with all the references to 'being charged' - and 'not being charged' - I'd like to get it clear and on record from Shaun Green that at no point will WBS decide that, due to downloaded quantities by users, they'll change/increase the amount of money they deduct via their debit order, right?

In other words if someone downloads more than their 'cap' specifies, WBS are not going to attempt to deduct further money from the customers bank account at month end, above the standard amount..?

Its one thing to perhaps have speeds throttled for a further month or two, if the cap is gone over - but I want to clarify that WBS have no intention of altering or increasing the standard amount that they take from customers bank accounts..?

It occurred to me that I didn't know the answer to this, so I'd rather ask and be clear on it.

Clarity on this please, Shaun?
 
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