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Trev blurted on Wed, 17 Nov 2004 14:34:31 -0000:

> That's cus there is not a limit. That is what the moans are about as the
> can not use it to the limit if they dont know the limit.

Yep, but they do have a meter on the site...Phil mentioned it the other
day...

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Trev expressed precisely :
> "Cath" <cacoll@_deleteme_yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:mn.8b567d4bd0219819.6345@deletemeyahoo.com...
>> Gareth wrote on 16/11/2004 :
>>> *Ron S* formulated on Tuesday :
>>>> ...turn:
>>>>
>>>> http://go.theregister.com/feed/2004/...roadband_hogs/
>>>
>>> Bloody stupid isn't it.
>>> They complained about people hogging the bandwidth and suggested that they
>>> go over to broadband where they can have an 'always on' connection without
>>> any limits and when they've got everybody transferred across, they start
>>> imposing caps and limits again. :-(
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>> and I can't even find the bit on their site that says how much I use!!!!
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> That's cus there is not a limit. That is what the moans are about as the can
> not use it to the limit if they dont know the limit.

ahhhh I was sure that there used to be a link tho to a part that showed
what you had downloaded in a month??? Maybe that was just before I
went for the unlimited package???

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On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 14:39:11 +0000, Ron S unleashed the following:

> Yep, but they do have a meter on the site...Phil mentioned it the other
> day...

Their support said that wasn't the meter they used to come up with this
fiasco....

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biggeordie blurted on Wed, 17 Nov 2004 14:42:18 GMT:

> Their support said that wasn't the meter they used to come up with this
> fiasco....

Did you see the post in there saying it costs Plusnet a quid per GB d/led
by their users...

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On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 14:44:24 +0000, Ron S unleashed the following:

> Did you see the post in there saying it costs Plusnet a quid per GB d/led
> by their users...

Yep.....

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On 17 Nov 2004, Gareth uttered the following:

> That's heavy use! :-(

It is... article of ADSLGuide says it's the equivalent of watching a
400Kbps video stream 24/7 for a month...

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On 17 Nov 2004, Trev uttered the following:

> Their are a lot of users that are running busnesses on the cheap taraff
> rather then the busness tarif too.

Yes, running businesses from a residential account is against the T&Cs!

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On 17 Nov 2004, Ron S uttered the following:

> Blimey that's a bit general of them...so 150 is heavy use, wonder why they
> even mention the 500 when one or the other would do...

They're saying the 0.3% are using between 150GB - 500GB per month...

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On 17 Nov 2004, Ron S uttered the following:

> So the 150 is a cap ?

No, they're moving the heavy users onto a dedicated pipe.

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*Phil* presented the following explanation :
> They're saying the 0.3% are using between 150GB - 500GB per month...

Yup, we read about that earlier... :-)

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