Comments on: A Personal Reality Check for Bandwidth Caps http://www.geeknewscentral.com/2010/03/05/a-personal-reality-check-for-bandwidth-caps/ Geek News Central is the technical site for Geeks. We Spin tech for the common man. With a Family of Tech Shows and Content. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:38:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: BoBiDiGiTaL http://www.geeknewscentral.com/2010/03/05/a-personal-reality-check-for-bandwidth-caps/comment-page-1/#comment-10208 BoBiDiGiTaL Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:22:04 +0000 http://www.geeknewscentral.com/?p=11509#comment-10208 Ever since i started using the internet ive always been limited. I recently went back to BT from having a break from the internet hoping that the services might have improved...... pfffft is all i can mealy say. a new router, that's it. I have BT Total BroadBand Option 3 (unlimited) and this truly is unlimited. There is a fair use policy in place which allows me to download 100GB within any 30day period - after exceeding this my daytime bandwidth is then throttled from 8mBps to a shocking 1mBps. This limit is imposed at 'peak times' and as stated in the fair use policy, peak time can be any time depending on network consumption. I can easily gobble up close to 200GB pcm and this is a mixture of, Streaming music, TV, Gaming (xbox360, pc), hosting a BT FON hotspot, downloading application for testing and review etc. Sounds alot? well, this is just me, a single guy in a 1 bedroomed flat in the north west UK. Imagine what a family of 4/5, flat mates could possibly do. Ever since i started using the internet ive always been limited. I recently went back to BT from having a break from the internet hoping that the services might have improved…… pfffft is all i can mealy say. a new router, that’s it.

I have BT Total BroadBand Option 3 (unlimited) and this truly is unlimited. There is a fair use policy in place which allows me to download 100GB within any 30day period – after exceeding this my daytime bandwidth is then throttled from 8mBps to a shocking 1mBps. This limit is imposed at ‘peak times’ and as stated in the fair use policy, peak time can be any time depending on network consumption. I can easily gobble up close to 200GB pcm and this is a mixture of, Streaming music, TV, Gaming (xbox360, pc), hosting a BT FON hotspot, downloading application for testing and review etc.

Sounds alot? well, this is just me, a single guy in a 1 bedroomed flat in the north west UK. Imagine what a family of 4/5, flat mates could possibly do.

]]> By: Stevil http://www.geeknewscentral.com/2010/03/05/a-personal-reality-check-for-bandwidth-caps/comment-page-1/#comment-10201 Stevil Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:50:52 +0000 http://www.geeknewscentral.com/?p=11509#comment-10201 ...or get unlimited broadband? …or get unlimited broadband?

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