on my current ISP I get charged €0.3 per mb for anything above/beyond the download limit for that month - is this too much? I looked at last octobers stats to notice that we ended up paying €94 EXTRA due to downloading 52% more data (3gb I think) - This doubled our bill! this cant be right can it? what happens when you breach your limit on your broadband line? do you pay extra and if so how much?
That wouldnt count with me - my download is limited but not my upload (I checked the contract). 24K is a huge amount nonetheless - gotta feel sorry for the guy.
Looking at the story I posted the guy was being charged 10 cents per Meg for anything over the 500mb limit he had. I'd guess that 0.3 euros is possibly a little steep, (it's about 3 times what the guy was being charged). Based on 0.30 EUR = 0.333240 USD (according to www.xe.com ). Luckily though I don't have any limits imposed on my ADSL line. Pipex have promised to not limit any of their customers on their uploads/ downloads.
(Its actually €0.03 - I double checked) what really gets up my back is when we bought the 'contract' we were told: "A flat monthly fee: Go online for as long as you like, whenever you like." "Unlimited Internet access" to me, that means NO LIMITATIONS - yet we are stuck with a 6gb per month limit. Also, by their estimations 1gb = 1000mb. this is not strictly true. 1gb = 1024mb; therfore my monthly limit should be 6144, not 6000mb. Ok, this makes pennies of differnece - but still.
It's the whole freeserve unlimited argument again. Saying exactly the same thing. You pay 14.99 a month, and they would automatically disconnect you after 2 hours. If you managed to stay connect for more then 8+ hours (using dialer software etc), then they'd send you out a letter saying that they will suspend your account if you keep using excessive amounts of time online. (it didn't even matter how much you were downloading)! You needed the extra tme online because you were using a 56k modem! I can't see how Isp's can get away with all these adverts saying "unlimited internet access" & then impose limitations.
