Do not go in for download limits

hazephase · #1 08-26-2007, 04:56 AM

The limited download is cheap but with 2BG you can not do much , what you can do is two minutes of video a day, 20 songs downloaded a month, and fewer than five e-mails with attachments a day. That package stops being cheap when you are either blocked for exceeding your limit or have to pay extra to download an e-mail.

James · #2 08-26-2007, 07:52 AM

Originally Posted by hazephase

The limited download is cheap but with 2BG you can not do much , what you can do is two minutes of video a day, 20 songs downloaded a month, and fewer than five e-mails with attachments a day. That package stops being cheap when you are either blocked for exceeding your limit or have to pay extra to download an e-mail.

Some good figures there, hazephase. Are these examples "and" or "or" examples?

For example "you can do is two minutes of video a day AND 20 songs downloaded a month AND fewer than five e-mails with attachments a day" or is it "you can do is two minutes of video a day OR 20 songs downloaded a month OR fewer than five e-mails with attachments a day"?

JenniP · #3 08-26-2007, 08:43 AM

Your title is a bit of a sweeping statement, download caps can actually be a good thing. The ISP I'm with has caps and you pay to get more download, but they are very generous, I get 330Gig (Off peak) and 30gig (Peak), I never get anywhere near them and I can be a heavy torrent user.

Also someone who almost never uses the net, will be quite happy with a 2Gig cap.

Jen

hazephase · #4 08-26-2007, 09:29 AM

Originally Posted by James

Some good figures there, hazephase. Are these examples "and" or "or" examples?

For example "you can do is two minutes of video a day AND 20 songs downloaded a month AND fewer than five e-mails with attachments a day" or is it "you can do is two minutes of video a day OR 20 songs downloaded a month OR fewer than five e-mails with attachments a day"?

I am talking about doing all of those things cause most of people that go online would do all of those things has far as what JenniP is saying it may be diffrent in her case but not in many others .

James · #5 08-26-2007, 06:03 PM

Originally Posted by hazephase

I am talking about doing all of those things cause most of people that go online would do all of those things has far as what JenniP is saying it may be diffrent in her case but not in many others .

Jennie has a massive download limit, about 15 times as much as the Orange 2GB limit. Her comment was that some people use their broadband for little more than checking emails.

JenniP · #6 08-26-2007, 10:47 PM

I have a 1GB Mobile Policy, and I get no-where near that, yet my phone is always checking my email, when I'm away from home I use it to browse the net, when I moved house it was my only internet connection.

OK I didnt download anything apart from web pages yet still got nowhere near using the 1GB.

Last month, hosting several websites (although few have much traffic), the occisional bit of torrenting, streaming football matches, 2 machines checking email quite often, loads of YouTube, downloading service packs for Windows, Windows updates (I built 2 machines for friends which had to be patched up), at least 10 hours of XBox live gaming, Downloading XBox 360 game demos I've used a grand total of.....

9.66GB

Ok last month I was doing a lot more torrenting which I only have enabled on my Off Peak hours, I used around 35GB, still less than 10% of my cap. I could even downgrade to the next cheapest package and still use less than 15% of my cap.

I would have to download 10GB a day to get anywhere near my off peak cap, and a further 1GB a day at peak times to use my peak cap, for most users thats pretty difficult to do.

Jen

James · #7 08-27-2007, 08:51 AM

Originally Posted by JenniP

I have a 1GB Mobile Policy, and I get no-where near that, yet my phone is always checking my email, when I'm away from home I use it to browse the net, when I moved house it was my only internet connection.

OK I didnt download anything apart from web pages yet still got nowhere near using the 1GB.

Last month, hosting several websites (although few have much traffic), the occisional bit of torrenting, streaming football matches, 2 machines checking email quite often, loads of YouTube, downloading service packs for Windows, Windows updates (I built 2 machines for friends which had to be patched up), at least 10 hours of XBox live gaming, Downloading XBox 360 game demos I've used a grand total of.....

9.66GB

Ok last month I was doing a lot more torrenting which I only have enabled on my Off Peak hours, I used around 35GB, still less than 10% of my cap. I could even downgrade to the next cheapest package and still use less than 15% of my cap.

I would have to download 10GB a day to get anywhere near my off peak cap, and a further 1GB a day at peak times to use my peak cap, for most users thats pretty difficult to do.

Jen

However with that sort of activity you could easily max out the Orange 2GB limit quite a few times over.

I am not saying that many of the people who would be tempted by Orange's offer would match your level of activity, and you certainly make a persuasive case to avoid "unlimited" offers, but download limits can catch the unwary.

funtoosh · #8 09-02-2007, 12:54 AM

Even I don't like the limits on internet connection. When everything is unlimited on internet why you need limits. You have unlimited sites, unlimited information, unlimited information, they wht to go for limited connection.

James · #9 09-06-2007, 10:45 AM

Originally Posted by funtoosh

Even I don't like the limits on internet connection. When everything is unlimited on internet why you need limits. You have unlimited sites, unlimited information, unlimited information, they wht to go for limited connection.

We have abundance but we have not yet banished scarcity. Bandwidth costs money to provide and so costs money to buy. JenniP has shown that unlimited deals are hedged by implicit limits.