I'm on BT also, but as of yet have not received an email, I wouldn=92t be
surprised if I did at some point. I'm currently on the business unlimited
package organised though another household member, however I routinely have
to backup/sync gigs of information each night. I have however recently
noticed BT traffic shaping, my connections keep dropping down to 30kB/s,
after a short period, unless I run them through encrypted connections. Has
BT policy changed recently, as I have not noticed this before?

Mat

-----Original Message-----
From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On Behalf Of
Tamas Rudnai
Sent: 03 September 2006 11:00
To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
Subject: Re: [OT] BT (uk) broadband fair usage policy

Think it is the same as a phone line: if you use it more then you have to
pay more, but they include some 'free speak time' in the line rental fee.
Most of the ISP has the policy not to 'overuse' the internet, so for example
if you download lots of movies or watching video clips all the time you
could reach that limit very easy. If you would like to avoid tha 1 pound per
gig then tell all of your member of your family to stop downloading or
watching videos.

There is a possibility that you have a wireless networking enabled without
the limitation which device had access to it therefore somebody else uses
your account without your knowledge -- maybe they do not even know that they
use your access point instead of theirs...

BTW: I do not know BT, but most of the ISP has a secure website where every
customer could check the statistics of the usage.

Tamas


On 03/09/06, Chris Gavin-Egan <chris@gavin-egan.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all
>
> I have just been emailed by BT (my broadband supplier) to tell me that I
> have gone over my monthly bandwidth by 18gb (how i don't know but I have
> a whole family using the connection on 4 pc's LOL )
>
> anyhow they advised me that next month, if I go over my bandwidth, they
> will charge me =A31 per Gb over the bandwidth allowance !
>
> Interestingly - they don't give you any method of actually monitoring
> your bandwidth usage on a hourly/daily/monthly basis other than this
> email telling you.
>
> I emailed them back today telling them that an example of BT's
> behaviour/policy is saying to people that they can go into a buffet and
> eat only as much as a plate holds, however we are not going to give you
> a plate to hold the food on and we would like you to stop eating when
> you think you have eaten as much as you feel a plate would hold... by
> the way we will be charging you =A31 for every sausage roll over and above
> the plated amount... oh and lastly we'll be watching so we know how much
> you have eaten !
>
> I haven't heard back as yet, but I am interested in peoples opinion of
> this situation, afterall, are they allowed to impose such charges when
> they don't give you any way of metering your own use ?
>
> Cheers Chris
>
>
>
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