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hi guys

just a quickie. got uncapped line at work now through mweb with fixed ip and thier router, apparantly thier is something about that u get soft capped after so many gig's per week is that true??? their is acutally a limit, not true "uncapped" were on the 512 adsl line if that makes any sense.

please any shed some light for me....
 
There is what they've called a 10 day rolling window. So for the 512 adsl you have 15GB every 10 days. You're not completely capped when you reach your quota for those 10 days, you just get downgraded to a slower speed
 
the issue of soft-capping also depends on the type of uncapped you have. Some cheaper uncapped accounts have rolling-windows with soft-capping in terms of a downgraded speed until your rolling-window is below the threshold and then you get your premium uncapped lines which have static IPs and no threshold at all, meaning you can download a total of 4.48245TB in a month on a 512kbps line without being capped or restricted in any manner. Except maybe that you might run out of downloads to download or you might bankrupt your ISP.
 
we hav the fixed ip one, they came and installed a router and they manage it ect???
 
froot said:
meaning you can download a total of 4.48245TB in a month on a 512kbps line without being capped or restricted in any manner.
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512kbps would be capable of +/-158GB downwards and assuming 256kbps up you would be able to upload would be 76GB so theoretical transfer is +/-234GB assuming you max the line in both directions the whole month.
 
quovadis said:
512kbps would be capable of +/-158GB downwards and assuming 256kbps up you would be able to upload would be 76GB so theoretical transfer is +/-234GB assuming you max the line in both directions the whole month.
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Ah crap. Sorry, my bad. Made a little screw-up with my calculator :)
 
Well in the extreme case of it being under the control of a rogue threshold with rolling-windows, you will be speed-throttled for 5 days at 50% speed. So not the end of the world. However, ISPs only give free routers and fixed IPs (that I've seen to date, haven't found any to the contrary) with uncapped lines.
 
quovadis said:
512kbps would be capable of +/-158GB downwards and assuming 256kbps up you would be able to upload would be 76GB so theoretical transfer is +/-234GB assuming you max the line in both directions the whole month.
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and sir plz tell the young man over here how u calculated that :p
 
Sarcasm gets boys nowhere. My fault has been rectified.
 
phoenix911 said:
who is this directed at? :eek:
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LOL I love misunderstandings like this, he thought you were saying he is the young man, how I read it, i may be wrong of course, is you would like to know how it is calculated so you too will be able to do Uber maths like that?

But i may be wrong...
:)
 
512kbps/256 line-- 64/32KBps--> 53/26 (usually 83% of line speed)-->53+26=79KBps up+down-->4740KBpmin-->284400KBphour-->6825600KBpday-->204768000KBpmonth-->199968.75MBpmonth-->195GBper month actual limit (for up and down). The actual line speed one can attain with any line is ~83% of max.
Maybe those laughing at someone making a mistake forgot to take the comma into consideration after the first number, ie your IQ is 1.17, not 117.
 
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