[Snap] Snap - what speed limited to when over cap?

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#173632 30-May-2015 12:40

I see Snap limit your speed once you reach your monthly quota, which I've never done before but may do this month. What speed do they limit you to?

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#1314560 30-May-2015 12:40

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#1314573 30-May-2015 12:52

"64kbs"

I endured this for two days once, felt like dial-up or worse, pages timed out, stylesheets took forever, images barely loaded.

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#1314575 30-May-2015 12:54

Yup same here, wen't over my limit about a year ago and my fibre connection was reduced to dial up or worse. I'm on unlimited now so not an issue but at the time I went over I just bought an add on and my connection was back to full speed in half an hour or so.

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#1314578 30-May-2015 12:56

64kbps is pretty slow, but better than charging people I guess. Not sure I'd bother paying for more data if it's only a couple of days. Thanks :)

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#1314582 30-May-2015 13:07

I've gone over before and been limited to 1Mb/s Up/Down. This is on Snap UFB.

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#1314592 30-May-2015 13:45

naggyman: I've gone over before and been limited to 1Mb/s Up/Down. This is on Snap UFB.

That would be plenty fast enough for a few days. Maybe I'll go over my cap on purpose just to see what it really does.

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#1314713 30-May-2015 17:04

timmmay: 64kbps is pretty slow, but better than charging people I guess. Not sure I'd bother paying for more data if it's only a couple of days. Thanks :)

If it was usable, it'd be ok. But as above I went over once and it felt worse than dialup. Pretty much completely unusable.

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#1314937 31-May-2015 08:48

I went over a few days ago, felt like dial up, so just bought a pack yesterday. I have too long to go in the month to stand that.

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#1315083 31-May-2015 13:25

When i last experienced this i wondered what method they were using to rate shape - even when you took every device off the connection and tested with one it was completely unusable with a ton of packet loss.
I know websites are more complex these days and loaded with massive JS libraries and media etc, but last time i was capped years ago i don't recall it being this bad, just really really slow.

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#1316898 3-Jun-2015 17:07

It seems to be around 256kbps (0.25Mbps) once you hit your limit.

The web is usable, but graphic heavy sites are slow. Multiple tabs of stuff load very, very slowly.

I added a data pack. It was applied instantly.