I know I am over the quota?

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jackyleunght2002

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#126877 22-Jul-2013 21:01

Hi Johnr and Vodafone

Ok, I know that I am over the data cap this month, but if you say, it will go back to the modem speed. thats fine about that, surely it can't be that slow, even I am doing a speedtest.net check, it can't give me a proper result...

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Jacky

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#863878 22-Jul-2013 21:01

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If you are posting regarding DSL speeds please check that

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#863894 22-Jul-2013 21:12

"If you go over your data limit and you don’t want to double your data you can surf at 64kbps for the rest of the month"

64 kb/s is 0.06 Mb/s, so that speed is correct.

chevrolux

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#863896 22-Jul-2013 21:17

Yea looks spot on.
And out of the goodness of their hearts they aren't throttling upload.

raytaylor

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#865897 25-Jul-2013 14:05

Thats interesting they are not throttling the upload.

If you are interested, Inspire does plans with higher overcap throttle speeds.

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wellygary

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#865985 25-Jul-2013 16:12

surely it can't be that slow,

Oh yes it can be, If you go from any reasonably ADSL 2 connections of 5+Mbs to 64K dial up, you are going to 1% of your initial "speed"

Image going along the motorway at 100Km/h, now stop and get out and walk, that's the sort of reduction applied

johnr

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#865991 25-Jul-2013 16:14

Looks correct to me

RunningMan

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#866029 25-Jul-2013 17:09

It's throttled to exactly the throughput advertised. If you want to go faster then pay for a plan with the amount of data you need.

GregV

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#866059 25-Jul-2013 18:00

Remember when that speed was higher than what you could normally get. :)