Slowdown plan delay?

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Smurfcake

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#76371 1-Feb-2011 18:37

So I've been talking to a mate of mine who exploits the hell out of his telecom broadband package, he's on the 20GB plan and has figured out that telecom doesn't bother to slow you down until the day/day after you go over your cap. So he guns it on the last day of the billing cycle and uses anywhere between 60-90GB's (around 4 times his bandwidth limit) in one day. So my question is; is this practice wise/does anyone else do this on telecom or other ISP's slowdown plans, and the practice incur the wrath of the ISP overlords eventually?

DeroyBoy

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#433848 1-Feb-2011 18:46

I do that although I only go 2-5GB over. If you are on a fixed cost plan they can't charge you just because they didn't slow you down. I think a lot of people are aware of this.

Smurfcake

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#433852 1-Feb-2011 18:53

Well no they cant charge you, but they can put you in the heavy users pool which I've been hearing about, which means slower speeds for the foreseeable future.

DeroyBoy

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#433856 1-Feb-2011 18:57

I guess they could but Telecom has not done that to me and a friend on Vodafone has not experienced that either.

JMatt94

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#434318 2-Feb-2011 15:45

Yep, do it all the time. Sometimes going 10gb+ over. Maybe Telecom will get back at us one day by adding our overage onto the next month's usage. :o.

garvani

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#434326 2-Feb-2011 15:56

i can imagine going 10gb over, but 60-90gb over in a day?? yeah that seems a little bit unrealistic.. Cant say ive done this but thanks for bringing it to my attention, shall remember it for next time

Smurfcake

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#434337 2-Feb-2011 16:10

Well his house is right next to the cabinet and he has well seeded torrents going at 800-900KB/s for like 1 and a half days.

webwat

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#434414 2-Feb-2011 18:20

Other ISPs manage to throttle you same day, like within an hour. Slingshot even slows down your free offpeak usage if you go over.

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