Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules. in Cogeco

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:13:02 EDT

said by exseven :

easy, cogeco isnt available in brazil :)

I live in Brazil most of the time, Canada the rest of the time. Obviously I was/am in Canada--where I have Cogeco--when I wrote that.

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:50:34 EDT

Hamilton1 : The Sad thing is Rogers customers only have to pay up to a maximum of $25 and then after that it is "UNLIMITED". Heck some of their customers have taken over 3Tb's in a one month period and still haven't been disconnected.

It's to bad the CRTC won't get involved and regulate the ISP's so this kind of garbage doesn't happen. I still can't understand why Cogeco can't give a "FIRM" number for all customers as to when they will be disconnected so we don't have to guess.

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:41:38 EDT

exseven : easy, cogeco isnt available in brazil :)

if you are in canada then you will be charged

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 08:01:35 EDT

Toollio : I just exceeded my bandwidth for June by a slight amount and got the 85% and 100% emails at the same time. The 100% email says "You have reached the MAXIMUM of your Internet usage monthly limit. Additional usage charges will be credited this month. Charges for additional usage will not take effect until June 2009."

Since this is June why are they still telling me usage will be credited? Then in the next sentence they seem to reverse their stance. Very confusing. Will I or will I not be charged?

say

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 01:13:25 EDT

Shamans :

said by diskdocx :

Is that on a standard account? If so, that's a pretty good deal for the $30 overage :)

Business Starter. I guess Gixxer figured it out by giving out the 720 gig figure. And I've gone much much more than 720 gigs in other months.

I totally expect to be suspended for this kind of transfer but I was hoping to know what their suspension policy is so that I can avoid getting suspended while still going over the limit to a reasonable degree. One of the reasons I transfer such a huge amount is to find out exactly how they react or what their suspension policy is like. It looks like they are starting to suspend again now that the new rules are established.

said by WoodyBCFC :

I have never exceeded my internet usage, the first month that we are getting billed for overage and I am already 117% over cap.

BS all my numbers have doubled over the previous two months. I've been a loyal customer, all things cogeco for years and this is bullshit there system is flawed.

Where would one start to complain about this, clearly there is an issue somewhere, days 1 and 2 Nothing used thats bs I'm on everday.

It's possible that switching to a higher plan will void the bandwidth charges if the cost is calculated at the end of month with a higher allowed bandwidth limit.

I'm not exactly sure what will happen if you switch from residential to business though (or vice versa)....I haven't tried that under the new bandwidth measuring tools.

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 11:00:45 EDT

WoodyBCFC : I have never exceeded my internet usage, the first month that we are getting billed for overage and I am already 117% over cap.

BS all my numbers have doubled over the previous two months. I've been a loyal customer, all things cogeco for years and this is bullshit there system is flawed.

Where would one start to complain about this, clearly there is an issue somewhere, days 1 and 2 Nothing used thats bs I'm on everday.

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 08:15:22 EDT

diskdocx :

said by Shamans :

Time to resurrect this thread.

Date: June 2009

Percent: > 600%.

Suspensions/Down-time: Suspended until end of month. No warning for suspension was given (assuming that the TOS or 85%/100% e-mails are not suspension warnings).

Thoughts: I've transferred more than this previously, so it's hard to say how they're enforcing suspensions. Also, they didn't volunteer their suspension policy. Tech support attitude was neutral, professional, and totally unyielding.

Possible Resolution: To switch to their most expensive package. Their sales dept. does not operate 24/7 though, which means that if you get suspended outside of business hours, you will be without a connection for awhile.

Is that on a standard account? If so, that's a pretty good deal for the $30 overage :)

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 06:43:14 EDT

metrotitan : "Suspended" Internet in 2009 is one of the most outrageous policies. What if one switched to a business account, would that make a difference?

How about slowing people down instead, jerks (Oh, sorry, my showing of real emotion means Cogeco won't take me seriously, right. Convenient)?

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 05:51:51 EDT

Fireblade : At least it's only 3 more days, 720GB is a lot of crap!

Sounds like the exact same treatment I got, except for a complete total bitch rep and a douche of a supervisor.
--
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Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 05:05:15 EDT

Shamans : Time to resurrect this thread.

Date: June 2009

Percent: > 600%.

Suspensions/Down-time: Suspended until end of month. No warning for suspension was given (assuming that the TOS or 85%/100% e-mails are not suspension warnings).

Thoughts: I've transferred more than this previously, so it's hard to say how they're enforcing suspensions. Also, they didn't volunteer their suspension policy. Tech support attitude was neutral, professional, and totally unyielding.

Possible Resolution: To switch to their most expensive package. Their sales dept. does not operate 24/7 though, which means that if you get suspended outside of business hours, you will be without a connection for awhile.

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 12:14:05 EDT

Kazragor9 : I did about 317 GB total last month without getting disconnected. I did experience some strange connectivity issues on the 31st but I'm not sure if they were related to my usage.
Edit: I'm using the standard package.

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:36:50 EDT

anon : down: 88.31 Gb
Up: 136.16Gb
A good month for me

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:50:15 EDT

anon : Yup. I'm in the cautious usage mode now too. As soon as i find a new isp i've gotta stick with cogeco. That's fine though. I'm actually going to try and make things hard for them by downloading as much copyrighted material as possible. Love getting those copyright infringement notices from them.
:)

for the record my stats last month were:

down: 113gb
up: 9gb
total: 122gb

man i hate cogeco with a passion right now.
anything else we can do to make life harder for them?

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 10:17:37 EDT

kushiro : Well, after a four-day binge where I essentially doubled my cap, I ended the month with:

Download: 119.46 GB
Upload: 3.12 GB
Total: 122.58 GB
Percent: 204%.

I was a little cautious after hitting the cap, but then I found a couple of posts in other threads where people on Standard were >300%. Had I known that earlier I would have maxed out over a greater period. However, I was able to go through trial periods for 2 premium news servers (10Gb and 20GB) in three days, so that was enjoyable.

Now I guess it's back to careful and vigilant management of bandwidth use. Thanks, Cogeco, for making my internet use "easier". (Although, to be fair, at least they haven't shut down my email account and deleted all my messages and contacts, without warning, after 10 years of service, unless I pay them $19.99US, like a certain free email provider did yesterday).

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Sun, 31 May 2009 10:21:30 EDT

A Lurker : Unlike last month, no notice at 85%. Assuming that the update is done at midnight, shouldn't notices go out at the same time?

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Sat, 30 May 2009 12:36:32 EDT

diskdocx : For the first time in years I will be over my Pro cap this month. Figure what the heck, might as well go out with a bang.

Haven't decided what to do next month. Typically I don't exceed 100gigs, and with the new penalties I most certainly will not.

Be very interested to see what standard users can get away with come June. I suspect you will find a hard cap on or about 75 gigs.

If not, as I have said before, the Pro tier becomes punitive and irrelevant.

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Sat, 30 May 2009 09:50:12 EDT

Shamans :

said by Twiggs :

aren't you allowed to use what you want but are charged 1.50 per gig over your limit??
That is my understanding.

Their suspension policy is confidential right now, so nobody knows. But as you've seen, many people have gone over the limit this month by a significant degree without suspension.

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Fri, 29 May 2009 20:51:55 EDT

anon : aren't you allowed to use what you want but are charged 1.50 per gig over your limit??
That is my understanding.

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Fri, 29 May 2009 15:47:01 EDT

Crashrun : Your current total Internet usage represents 433.20 % of your monthly limit.

May 2009
Download 216.44 GB (221,634.4 MB)
Upload 43.48 GB (44,522.32 MB)
Total 259.92 GB (266,156.72 MB)

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Fri, 29 May 2009 14:28:46 EDT

Pete_64 : May 2009
Download 168.27 GB (172,312.82 MB)
Upload 97.77 GB (100,116.87 MB)
Total 266.04 GB (272,429.69 MB)

443% Standard Package

I will push the limits next month and see if and when I get suspended.

I will most likely be switching to the business package after june

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Fri, 29 May 2009 02:30:05 EDT

AMailer :

said by urbanriot :

said by Shamans :

7M/120gig: It's called the business starter package...but is a little bit more expensive and you cannot bundle it.

If you're a really nice person with a great attitude and you have a friendly CSR, it's possible. Difficult, but possible.

Cogeco really needs to do something for the home users they've pushed to the business package, to allow them to bundle their services. Why they would *punish* their users who are trying to buy a better service from them is beyond me.

Because they know they can do that - sucker people into paying more, for less really :P
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- Bushism

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Thu, 28 May 2009 23:34:06 EDT

Kazragor9 : Date: May 2009
Package: Standard
Percent: 375.28 % (225.17 GB)
Suspensions/Down-time: 0

I also received two warnings for 85%, the second one was a week or so after getting one for 100%.

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Thu, 28 May 2009 21:24:03 EDT

Shamans :

said by Fireblade :

I've run out of porn to download.

I got maybe 2 TB left to go (not porn haha) until I really run out....but wow, we need a new thread for record-breaking usage. I think I'll start one at the end of the month ;)

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Thu, 28 May 2009 21:18:30 EDT

Fireblade : I've run out of porn to download.

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Thu, 28 May 2009 21:17:08 EDT

Shamans : Date: May 2009
Package: I don't think it really matters.
Percent: > 1000%. I'm probably spending $5/day in storage alone just to download that much. Scary and I'm going broke.
Suspensions/Down-time: 0
Accuracy of meter: Accurate within +/- 5% so far for this month.

Has anyone actually gotten suspended lately? I think we're back to unlimited usage.....for the month of May anyway. If this keeps up, I'll be one happy camper.

This is probably going to be my last post in this thread as it should be enough info for many of you. Too bad there wasn't anybody else going "where no man has gone before"...

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Wed, 27 May 2009 12:44:00 EDT

Celery : Thanks for checking, ItalCanadese .

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Wed, 27 May 2009 11:36:14 EDT

manderson4 : Well my account has completely disappeared again and it won't let me register my account number. How the heck I am supposed to monitor traffic if I can't see my account info

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Wed, 27 May 2009 09:38:20 EDT

ItalCanadese : PM me your MAC and I can have a look for you if you'd like.

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Wed, 27 May 2009 09:24:19 EDT

Celery : Just a bit confused... I did not get the 100% notification for April at all. Here in May, I just gave up and didn't do much downloading right now... maybe the last few days I will...

Can a Cogeco rep see why I received my 85% warning and no others after that, even though my final usage was 64.33 GB? I was past 100% on the 14th of the month.

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Wed, 27 May 2009 00:06:43 EDT

Shamans : I'm approaching quadruple digit percentages this month...I'll make a nice little report at end of month. I've been too busy to download more lately.

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Wed, 20 May 2009 15:06:36 EDT

chdude3 : Date: May 20 2009
Package: Resi HSI Standard
Percent: 13.02%
Notifications/Warnings: N/A
Suspensions: 0
Accuracy of meter: Looks good to me

My Feb and Mar totals were about 40gig each though, that's my typical usage so it sort of precludes me from dropping down to Lite Plus.

Cogeco's packages and pricing kinda suck.

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Wed, 20 May 2009 10:50:52 EDT

urbanriot :

said by Shamans :

7M/120gig: It's called the business starter package...but is a little bit more expensive and you cannot bundle it.

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Wed, 20 May 2009 03:22:13 EDT

Shamans :

said by helpplease :

I think it sucks. This hard cap is unrealistic, and I'll be damned if I'm going to pay overages. First overage charge will be my last, I'm canceling that day. How can they be gouging us 60gig for $55. If they don't come out with a 7M/100gig plan by the time my introductory pricing runs out in August, I'm ending my 10+ years of loyal Cogeco service. It's going to be hard to deal with the speed drop, but 200gig for $30 at techsavvy is much more attractive at this point. I watch CBC news and other streams daily. Combine that with some youtube vids and other live streams and I'm consistently around 59gig/mo (only because I have a bandwidth meter.) I don't need 10M speed, but the limits on the Lite packages are even more ridiculous. Screw this disgusting extortionate company. I really don't want to go, but they leave me no choice. This is my absolute promise, new higher gig tiers by August, or I'm gone.

Phew, I feel better now..sorry to vent.

7M/120gig: It's called the business starter package...but is a little bit more expensive and you cannot bundle it.

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Tue, 19 May 2009 15:11:32 EDT

helpplease : I think it sucks. This hard cap is unrealistic, and I'll be damned if I'm going to pay overages. First overage charge will be my last, I'm canceling that day. How can they be gouging us 60gig for $55. If they don't come out with a 7M/100gig plan by the time my introductory pricing runs out in August, I'm ending my 10+ years of loyal Cogeco service. It's going to be hard to deal with the speed drop, but 200gig for $30 at techsavvy is much more attractive at this point. I watch CBC news and other streams daily. Combine that with some youtube vids and other live streams and I'm consistently around 59gig/mo (only because I have a bandwidth meter.) I don't need 10M speed, but the limits on the Lite packages are even more ridiculous. Screw this disgusting extortionate company. I really don't want to go, but they leave me no choice. This is my absolute promise, new higher gig tiers by August, or I'm gone.

Phew, I feel better now..sorry to vent.

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Tue, 19 May 2009 07:51:13 EDT

pjcomp : My use is well under the 60 GB limit and having switched from Bell, which also has limits, I guess I am used to it. However I can see how the average user could easily go over 60, it isn't hard and the limits seem too low to me as well. I usually average 35-40 a month and that is with online gaming, some bittorrent d/ls and as a beta tester downloading builds at various times. Maybe since I came from a miserable situation with Bell, Cogeco suits me well since the service is rock solid stable and fast all of the time. Still it would seem that 100-120 or so would be more realistic. I know that I could kick to the next level for 100 GB but an extra $25 a month is too much to pay for the extra 40 GB.

Bottom line is after Bell anything is a vast improvement limits and all.

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Mon, 18 May 2009 19:43:27 EDT

InFloW : Well looks like I'll be looking for alternatives or at least a second ISP in the form of some random DSL with no caps. With 4 computers sharing the same connection going through the cap is pretty easy. Without any torrents or excessive downloading doing 60GB is really easy. Facebook, youtube and other sites are pretty bandwidth intensive. Now if I wanted to get a new game off of steam or something like that I'd be stuck with extra charges as well. Games are no longer less than a GB some of them could be 10+GB of downloading since a lot of them are now online distribution mainly. I wouldn't be worried if it was say 300GB cap like some of the american ISP's have. It's not though so all it takes is one day of getting a game or heck even a movie online and the end of the month there will be an overage bill.

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Mon, 18 May 2009 18:43:40 EDT

Fireblade : :huh:

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Mon, 18 May 2009 15:15:02 EDT

kushiro : Date: May 18 2009
Package: Standard
Percent: 90.85%
Notifications/Warnings: 85% warning at about 1am this morning
Suspensions: 0
Accuracy of meter: Seems about right

I'm actually getting pretty worried that somehow I'll get cut off when I hit about 110% (which should be in the next few days), even though others seem to be getting away with a lot more.

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Mon, 18 May 2009 13:20:51 EDT

urbanriot : :uhh:

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Mon, 18 May 2009 12:11:55 EDT

Asawulf :

said by vega509 :

Guess what! not only does the DVR/Cable TV system not warn about approaching or exceeding the cap, it just happily downloads while the meter is running.

Why in hell would the TV warn you about approaching/exceeding the cap? What TV cap? What meter?

I'm almost speechless...

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Mon, 18 May 2009 09:53:10 EDT

vega509 : these caps are a cash grab period. I WAS a HD cable subscriber, with their RENTAL DVR. The television was bombarded with FREE downloadable HD movies. Guess what! not only does the DVR/Cable TV system not warn about approaching or exceeding the cap, it just happily downloads while the meter is running.

My solution, since I felt Cogeco profiteers from us both ways, was to cancel the cable TV. If a reliable alternative offers no cap service in my area for internet, that account will be closed also.

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Sat, 16 May 2009 16:59:57 EDT

Kazragor9 : Date: May 2009
Package: Standard
Percent: 239.30%
Notifications/Warnings: 85%/100% (Same day :P)
Suspensions: 0

I also didn't report last month but, I was able to to ~226GB without being disconnected.

Considering going on Business Starter Package this month.

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Thu, 14 May 2009 12:29:49 EDT

anon : "technology. Corporate greed and governments that work for corporations keep us behind and it's only the people who suffer for this corporate greed."

Europe has no limits Internets cost is like 20-40 euro money wise speeds 15-50mbps over un capped and my friends are laughing at me i live in a shit country that's stealing my money away from me working hard for it dam greedy bastards Canada

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Thu, 14 May 2009 12:01:21 EDT

ScytheNoire : I would like to switch to Cable, and Cogeco is the only option due to the horrible ISP choices in Canada, but my typical usage is 150GB to 170GB a month, and that's without doing anything illegal.

100GB is just too low of a cap to even consider switching. It's like giving someone a car that can do 160 MPH and then telling them they can only drive 5 miles a day.

Of course the reason they are doing these caps is because their main money making business is delivering overpriced cable television, and if people can watch TV online, it hurts that business. So they take away the option to watch TV online, thus, thinking it will help their cable TV business. It's backwards thinking, but all the American cable companies are doing the same.

It's backwards thinking like that that keeps North America far behind the rest of the world when it comes to technology. Corporate greed and governments that work for corporations keep us behind and it's only the people who suffer for this corporate greed.

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Mon, 11 May 2009 09:54:20 EDT

katmeef : I think zip.ca got nervous as my spouse & I weren't using their service last month (due to our heavy downloading testing the meter).. They are sending us like 5 discs at a time now ;)

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Sun, 10 May 2009 20:43:35 EDT

A Lurker : I pretty much stay under 100%. I did push my Soho (on purpose) over 85% last month just to make sure that I was getting messages (as I hadn't on another month I'd come close to 100%). I got the message, so that's good. I'm not usually much over the 85% mark (if that).

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Sat, 09 May 2009 16:50:51 EDT

katmeef : Date: May 9 2009
Package: Resi HSI
Percent: 7.53%
Notifications/Warnings: N/A
Suspensions: 0
Accuracy of meter: Looks good to me

This is why I haven't been reporting :)

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Sat, 09 May 2009 16:42:04 EDT

Shamans : Date: May 2009
Package: Business Starter
Percent: > 350%.
Notifications/Warnings: Got the 85% and 100% warning within a few hours of passing each.
Suspensions: 0
Accuracy of meter: Accurate within +/- 5% so far for this month.

Damn, why hasn't anyone else been reporting? :(

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Sat, 09 May 2009 13:43:39 EDT

Fireblade : Bell.

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Sat, 09 May 2009 10:44:00 EDT

anon :

said by pjcomp :

And it would appear that all providers are going to caps now so in the future it appears that it is an unavoidable nuisance.

What makes you say that? Do you have a link to the news report stating this?

Once cogeco fails, what ISP in their right mind will go for this suicidal business model?

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Sat, 09 May 2009 08:54:59 EDT

pjcomp : Now take this opinion with a grain of salt since I just left Bell with some real horror stories about support, speed, and stability. I must not be an average user since I find the speed to be an almost constant 9.4 MB and after checking my useage over the past week, am averaging about 1 GB a day. Yes I download some torrents, but not on a consistent basis, and am an avid WoW player. With Bell I saw an average use rate around 35 GB a month.Maybe I just came from the absolute worse situation that my judgement is clouded so let's give it some time but at this point I can say that the caps are not a problem. And it would appear that all providers are going to caps now so in the future it appears that it is an unavoidable nuisance.

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Fri, 08 May 2009 12:25:38 EDT

Hamilton1 : I also received my bill and I also noted that there was nothing to do with the UBB billing.

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Thu, 07 May 2009 14:25:04 EDT

Celery : Just got my bill in the mail.

So far, nothing is showing the additional bandwidth charges, or it being taken off. Looks no different than my last few bills. Nothing to show that I went over 60GB.

On a side note, I still never got my 100% notification via email.

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Thu, 07 May 2009 02:54:11 EDT

urbanriot :

said by gordon freeman :

why are the links through selfcare broken, cant they figure out how to re-direct pages?

Yea, seriously. With all the extra UBB money they're banking you'd think they could pay someone $1,000 to delete:

Really it's been there and broken a month now... why!?

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Wed, 06 May 2009 21:53:33 EDT

anon : why are the links through selfcare broken, cant they figure out how to re-direct pages?

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Wed, 06 May 2009 13:57:33 EDT

slade : »www.cogeco.ca/cable/on/en/mycogeco/home.html

Right hand side, My Account - click for login :)

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Wed, 06 May 2009 13:36:36 EDT

anon : The page cannot be found

Please note that the Cogeco Cable web site has been redesigned. The page you are looking for might have been removed,had its name changed, or is temporarily unvalaible.

Cette page est introuvable

Veuillez prendre note que le site Internet de Cogeco CÃ¢ble a Ã©tÃ© renouvelÃ©. La page que vous cherchez a Ã©tÃ© enlevÃ©e, a changÃ©e de nom ou n'est pas disponible temporairement.

Revenir Ã la page d'accueil de Cogeco

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Wed, 06 May 2009 00:29:26 EDT

anon :

said by gordon freeman :

Wow the bandwidth monitor is down again! This time it was for the whole day! Way to go Cogeco, making it really damn hard to monitor our usage!

Worked fine for me all day...

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Wed, 06 May 2009 00:02:59 EDT

anon : Wow the bandwidth monitor is down again! This time it was for the whole day! Way to go Cogeco, making it really damn hard to monitor our usage!

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Mon, 04 May 2009 13:51:43 EDT

anon : heheh ya i capped like 150% last month on my 16mbps service i am deffenly going to hate the cap in the will start chargeing 1 per gb i think i will have to find a nother internet provider

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Sat, 02 May 2009 22:35:36 EDT

Shamans : Date: May 2009
Package: Business Starter
Percent: > 100%.
Notifications/Warnings: Got the 85% and 100% warning within a few hours of passing each.
Suspensions: 0
Accuracy of meter: Accurate within +/- 5% so far for this month. I've been noticing some UI improvements with regards to the bandwidth page too.

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Sat, 02 May 2009 09:05:42 EDT

katmeef :

said by Shamans :

Is anybody on a business package intending to do 300% or more this month? I'm getting tired of downloading frankly lol...

Maybe I'd upgrade to commercial if you wanna send some of those jumbo HDD this way.... ;) j/k

On my little downloading binge (just to test the meter, of course) I got enough stuff to keep me content for a few months. I don't think I'll be topping 100G in May really. Plus the weather is nicer so maybe I'll go outside, with lots of sunscreen... (this is not me) »content.revolutionhealth.com/con···28775917

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Fri, 01 May 2009 15:34:30 EDT

Fireblade : I grabbed most of my shows in HD already, probably do 150GB this month max.

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Fri, 01 May 2009 15:26:36 EDT

Shamans :

said by katmeef :

you got lectured? You're an evil, evil downloading man! ;)

still the first month with this new way, maybe they will have the resuspend automated for next month (was it automated previously? I've never reached the end-of-month).

good thing i didn't have to call, I think I would have gotten it ten times worse as an employee!! I started getting nervous and stopped at 133.47 lol

Yeah, any suspensions used to be automatically (automated) forgiven at the beginning of the month.

Is anybody on a business package intending to do 300% or more this month? I'm getting tired of downloading frankly lol...

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Fri, 01 May 2009 10:52:29 EDT

katmeef : you got lectured? You're an evil, evil downloading man! ;)

still the first month with this new way, maybe they will have the unsuspend automated for next month (was it automated previously? I've never reached the end-of-month).

good thing i didn't have to call, I think I would have gotten it ten times worse as an employee!! I started getting nervous and stopped at 133.47 lol

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Fri, 01 May 2009 10:44:01 EDT

Fireblade : I had to call in to get reconnected, lame - it didn't reconnect me automatically. I also got a big lecture from billing that 200GB is a serious thing, not only will I be charged for it the lady said, but I will get disconnected if my bandwidth usage looks like that again. If I didn't just wake up, I probably would have insulted her and hung up - people telling me what I can and can't do with my paid service. Where do these people get off?

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Fri, 01 May 2009 09:04:54 EDT

Hamilton1 : Well for the month of April I ended up using 107Mb's which I would bet seems pretty tame compared to some, but I was afraid that I would be cut off, and my internet connection is very important to me.

I wish I had someone that I could fall back on, but DSL in my neighborhood is just horrible and isn't a viable alternative at this time.

Oh come June when they do start the UBB, I am going to switch to the Business Starter account as it would seem to be the best bang for the buck account that Cogeco is going to provide.

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Fri, 01 May 2009 06:38:41 EDT

Shamans : Date: April 2009
Package: Business Starter
Percent: > 940%.
Notifications/Warnings: Got the 85% and 100% in quick succession but they came in late.
Suspensions: 0
Accuracy of meter: Meter's definitely broken in some way but still accurate within +/- 10% overall.

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 11:40:11 EDT

anon : Cogeco bills $1 per gig over their 60 gig cap! The 60 gig cap sucks but the speed is way better than Bell! Bell's cap at 80 gigs is better! Same thing! Bell charges $1 per gig over cap.

So it's simple! Speed or cap!

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 23:44:59 EDT

Shamans :

said by Hamilton1 :

Hmm lets see Business Starter 100% = 120Gb so if my math is right 835% = 1002Gb's or just over a Terabytes worth of data.

It's hard to believe that you haven't made someones list with an amount that is that high, so I would guess you are right and the "Business Counter" if there is one must be broken.

Any Comment here Cogeco????????????

When the new cogeco website is implemented again, you should compare the differences in the new wording for residential vs business internet. There seems to be quite a difference and there's also an emphasis for non-interruption of service for business internet.

Why don't you switch to business starter and try 1 TB next month? :) I need someone else to verify.
It's not too hard....only 35 GB / day.

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:52:38 EDT

Asawulf : Yes, there was a rollback to ensure people could check their bandwidth and the web site in its own, they'll try again another day (night)...

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:32:31 EDT

Fireblade : Is it just me or did they revert the website? At least it's working now.

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:06:32 EDT

Krispy :

said by gordon freeman :

Not Found

The requested URL /en/selfcare_hsi_usage_login_redirect_o.html was not found on this server.

Yeah the web guys were doing their big website update last night and I guess somethings went awry (as they always seem to!) so people have been working to get everything back up since early AM. I don't have a concrete ETA but I can say it's a high priority so should be resolved shortly.
--
you can lead a horse to the water but you cannot make him drink...you can put a man through school but you cannot make him think --ben harper

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:00:12 EDT

Fireblade : Hmm, looks like you're right. Down for me too.

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:57:54 EDT

anon : Not Found

The requested URL /en/selfcare_hsi_usage_login_redirect_o.html was not found on this server.

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:57:06 EDT

Fireblade : They were updating their site yesterday, I wasn't able to view it for a few hours last night.

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:53:55 EDT

anon : Oh boy this again! It would be nice to see where I am ok Cogeco? Would getthis when trying to check monthly usage, since it emailed me yesterday saying I'm at 85%.

Connection Interrupted

The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading.

The network link was interrupted while negotiating a connection. Please try again.

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 08:58:27 EDT

Hamilton1 : Hmm lets see Business Starter 100% = 120Gb so if my math is right 835% = 1002Gb's or just over a Terabytes worth of data.

It's hard to believe that you haven't made someones list with an amount that is that high, so I would guess you are right and the "Business Counter" if there is one must be broken.

Any Comment here Cogeco????????????

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 09:15:52 EDT

Shamans : Date: April 2009
Package: Business Starter
Percent: > 835%.
Notifications/Warnings: Got the 85% and 100% in quick succession but they came in late.
Suspensions: 0
Accuracy of meter: Meter's definitely broken in some way but still accurate within +/- 10% overall.

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Sat, 25 Apr 2009 11:42:10 EDT

katmeef : I wish!! I have only 0.6 TB of HDD space between both machines :(
time for an upgrade me thinks!

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Sat, 25 Apr 2009 09:45:48 EDT

Shamans :

said by katmeef :

said by Shamans :

It takes way too much time + effort

Yea, I ran out of stuff I wanted to download after the first day of hardcore testing of the meter. After that, I was just grabbing stuff for the sake of downloading.

Most of the testing has been burned on discs that I'm quite sure will never again see the light of day :)

I got about 10 TB of storage total heh. HDDs are the way to go. I most likely have about 3 TB possible but I won't download just anything and filtering out the crap takes time and I actually use 95% of anything I download. Go high def exclusively, it makes everything much larger ;)

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Sat, 25 Apr 2009 08:40:07 EDT

katmeef :

said by Shamans :

It takes way too much time + effort

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Sat, 25 Apr 2009 04:53:45 EDT

Shamans :

said by katmeef :

said by Shamans :

Date: April 2009
Package: Business Starter
Percent: > 670%.

thats 804 Gig right?

Looks like it. I'm just too busy to download lately. I'm not sure if I'll do the same thing again next month unless I want a 2nd verification that I can push such limits. It takes way too much time + effort and I don't have a backup ISP like most people do.

I've actually downloaded more than a TB even when caps were enforced on a non-enterprise plan. People don't believe me when I tell them that every Cogeco meter has had/have bugs, albeit rare.

I actually miss pro/soho speeds for heavy downloading but those plans are just way too expensive.

I'm at > 690%, I would've been at 800% if I kept it up.

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:49:12 EDT

A Lurker :

said by Shamans :

Accuracy of meter: Meter's definitely broken in some way but still accurate within +/- 10% overall.

The meter appears far more accurate than it has been in the past. I know that I used to be able to do overnight downloads and it definitely didn't pick everything up. Of course, I haven't done much downloading recently so it could be that I'm doing it mainly during earlier hours. If I remember, I'll queue up some information overnight and see how it goes.

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:47:12 EDT

katmeef : Date: April 24th 2009
Package: Standard
Percent: 156.42% (majority used for testing the new meter...)
Warnings: 2
Suspensions: 0

And I see a new section that I didn't notice before on the page:

Usage notifications sent for the current month: 2
Here are the e-mail notifications that were sent to your account:

Validation Usage Notification
Date Description
04-14-2009 12:48:58 85% - Standard
04-14-2009 06:57:05 100% - Standard

These times match up with my received emails, and the meter is accurate when comparing to PRTG, for me anyways... of course I'm not going to hit a TB this month like someone else ;)

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:29:58 EDT

anon : Date: April 24th 2009
Package: Standard
Percent: 250%
Warnings: 2
Suspensions: 0

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 08:14:04 EDT

katmeef :

said by Shamans :

Date: April 2009
Package: Business Starter
Percent: > 670%.

thats 804 Gig right?

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 08:00:44 EDT

Shamans : Date: April 2009
Package: Business Starter
Percent: > 670%.
Notifications/Warnings: Got the 85% and 100% in quick succession but they came in late.
Suspensions: 0
Accuracy of meter: Meter's definitely broken in some way but still accurate within +/- 10% overall.

I'm too busy to download more, I'll probably only reach 900%.

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 05:42:15 EDT

anon : Date:April 22 2009
Package: Standard
Percentage: 125 %
Warnings: 2 (85%/100%)
Terminations: 0
Suspensions: 0

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 10:10:00 EDT

Shamans : Date: April 2009
Package: Business Starter
Percent: > 550%.
Notifications/Warnings: Got the 85% and 100% in quick succession but they came in late.
Suspensions: 0
Accuracy of meter: It said I had 0 GB for 5 days followed by 350+ GB on one day. I wonder if it was "compensating".

Meter's definitely broken in some way.

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:24:17 EDT

Hamilton1 : Looks like your getting away with a lot and I would bet it's because it's a business account.

If you think you've gone over by 600% or more then that's 720Mb's worth of data and if they cut off the other gentleman at only 270Gb's then something is very wrong with this setup.

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:35:37 EDT

Shamans : Date: April 2009
Package: Business Starter
Percent: It says approx. 270% since 5 days ago but I'm probably in the 450 to 600% range now.
Notifications/Warnings: Got the 85% and 100% in quick succession but they came in late.
Suspensions: 0
Accuracy of meter: Accurate thus far for every day except the last 5 days say 0 GB. Tested against what my router reports. Missing last 5 days (did I break it?)

Meter's definitely broken in some way. Maybe I'll have 0 GB for life.

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Sun, 19 Apr 2009 13:20:14 EDT

katmeef : pm sent, again I don't remember anything up for Kingsville, but can check for ya tomorrow night.

*edit* it would help to keep the focus on you :) if you put up your own thread, answering all the questions you can from »/forum/remark%···ode=flat

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Sun, 19 Apr 2009 12:17:44 EDT

hagbard72 : Feel free to send me an email. But if you look in earlier threads, there's been many who've said the same thing, they're dl speed drops around six pm. I was told by a dispatcher there was an issue with overloaded nodes in the area and was shocked when she thought three months was considered "a short time" to deal with it.

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Sun, 19 Apr 2009 11:23:31 EDT

A Lurker : So, are we supposed to be getting warning emails, or is that starting this month? I ask because I finally signed in to the new bandwith monitoring tool today. I'm at a ridiculously low number for this month (but likely valid as I haven't been around much).

However, I look at March's info and see that I hit 93% - definitely did not get a warning email. Frankly that's pretty much the same situation that first got me into trouble - no emails, then cut off.

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Sun, 19 Apr 2009 07:34:20 EDT

katmeef :

said by BBSQUESTION :

I apologize for going off topic but which was yours?

I will answer over PM (can't send to anon posters though), whomever put my BBS there listed my full first and last name as sysop :o

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Sat, 18 Apr 2009 23:52:38 EDT

anon : I apologise for going off topic but which was yours?

said by katmeef :

*edit* offtopic but i miss my BBS sometimes.. I resisted the move to the internet till the very end too!
»bbslist.textfiles.com/905/

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Sat, 18 Apr 2009 14:13:13 EDT

Hamilton1 : Date:April 19th 2009
Package: Standard
Percentage: 105% (63.45Mb used)
Warnings: 2 (85%/100%)- Both 3 days late
Termination Warnings: 0 (looks like you don't get one)
Suspensions: 0

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Sat, 18 Apr 2009 06:09:10 EDT

vuarra : *edited as off-topic and sent to a new thread*

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Sat, 18 Apr 2009 04:09:45 EDT

Shamans : Date: April 2009
Package: Business Starter
Percent: It says approx. 270% since 3 days ago. But if I keep counting myself, 410%.
Notifications/Warnings: Got the 85% and 100% in quick succession but they came in late.
Suspensions: 0
Accuracy of meter: Accurate thus far for every day. Tested against what my router reports. Missing last 3 days (did I break it?)
Other thoughts: They better not suspend me till the end of the month without some pre-warning because I can always slow down my usage.

I'm testing up to 1000% to find my ceiling if Cogeco will allow it.

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:50:11 EDT

jeisenberg : Just received the official letter from Cogeco today. I read the small print where it says: "... these additional charges and maximum limit do not limit in any way our contractual right to temporarily suspend or restrict your access to your internet service or to take any other actions deemed appropriate, if your consumption exceeds a reasonable limit, as determined by Cogeco in its sole judgment, or for any other violation of the AUP ..."

This indicates to me that cutoff doesn't need to be as a result of interference with other people's fair use, but rather can be strictly based on your use.

(bolding is mine, not Cogeco's)

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:28:17 EDT

katmeef : hagbard: I do not believe there are any alerts presently for this type of problem in Kingsville (although this really belongs in some other thread) - I can take a look Monday night when I'm back in the office, if you want to pm your MAC

Gixxer: With all honesty, I had nothing to do with your cutoff, at some point it was inevitable IMO...

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:50:28 EDT

Fireblade : I miss the Mountain Cable service I had back in Hamilton! FFS.

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:08:55 EDT

hagbard72 : Looks like this is there way of dealing with oversaturated nodes. Here in the Kingsville area, you're lucky to get over dialup speeds after six pm. I was told back in Feb they'd be dealing with this issue soon, I asked how soon, they said in two months!! Would have rather seen them increase capacity than screw over their customers.

I so miss the Shaw service I had back in BC.

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:18:13 EDT

Fireblade : Looks like Katmeef ratted me out! Just got my monthly, I also just ordered some DSL too. (Kidding about the rat)

Date: April 17th 2009
Package: Standard
Percent: 330%
Warnings: 2 (85/100% Usage)
Termination Warnings: 0
Suspensions: 1 (End of the month, bastards)

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:21:12 EDT

katmeef : oldschool, eh.. that's so bbs of you :)

*edit* offtopic but i miss my BBS sometimes.. I resisted the move to the internet till the very end too!
»bbslist.textfiles.com/905/

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:07:23 EDT

Fireblade :

said by katmeef :

I hope you aren't having to keep up a ratio on a tracker site somewhere? :D or are you cheating to keep ratio up hehe?

Usenet good sir, Usenet. :D

EDIT: And defiantly NOT Cogeco's usenet server! /vomit

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 11:57:27 EDT

katmeef : I hope you aren't having to keep up a ratio on a tracker site somewhere? :D or are you cheating to keep ratio up hehe?

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 11:45:58 EDT

Fireblade : Here you go Jack, I must have missed your post. I had the stomach flu since Monday, so I've been holding back!

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 07:29:32 EDT

Fireblade : They have done that in the past... But as you've read, many people are over 300% bandwidth consumption and can keep on rolling.

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:39:05 EDT

anon : In my experience, the moment we go over the cap, a couple of hours later we get kicked off.

Quite often, we won't download more than 10 MB over several days, and get kicked off again.

If their internal suspension policy doesn't change, then I suppose that will be a problem in my area. Here in Kingston it seems like all the nodes are oversubscribed... I can never reach the full capacity of the line due to conggestion. People are always complaining of poor speed, and cogeco seems agnostic as to whether X person who is 100.2% over his limit has only downloaded 10 MB in a week, they still cut you off.

To make matters worsse, bell only has one PoP in this town. No remotes. Unless your in the downtown core, DSL (and as such alternate ISPs) is not an option.

Although, at my girlfriends, we deal with 1.5Mbps DSL, because overall we get to download more than we could with cogeco. Plus, we're proividing some support for the CAIP :D

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 13:33:46 EDT

anon : Date:April 16th 2009
Package: Standard
Percentage: 100.78 %
Warnings: 1 (85%/100%)
Terminations: 0
Suspensions: 0

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 10:03:51 EDT

Hamilton1 : Date:April 16th 2009
Package: Standard
Percentage: 94%
Warnings: 1 (85%)
Terminations: 0
Suspensions: 0

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 04:04:56 EDT

Fireblade : Date: April 16th 2009
Package: Standard
Percent: 310%
Warnings: 2 (85/100% Usage)
Termination Warnings: 0
Suspensions: 0

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:47:16 EDT

Shamans : Date: April 2009
Package: Business Starter
Percent: > 300%
Notifications/Warnings: Got the 85% and 100% in quick succession but they came in late. Didn't get any other warning. I anticipate that if this continues, people might have maxed out their bandwidth charges already by the time they get their notifications.
Suspensions: 0
Accuracy of meter: Accurate thus far for every day. Tested against what my router reports.

I'm testing up to 1000% to find my ceiling if Cogeco will allow it.

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 07:43:51 EDT

dad_of_3 :

said by Jack Sparrow 5 :

so your telling me that if i were to do all my downloading at lets say 1am - 6am i could go over as much as i want without any repercussions?

i'm not saying your a liar but you've gotta understand my skepticism. under the old system soho would have a hard cap of about 97gb. then you would be cut off.

No worries, I didn't make this up, just quoting Krispy...

said by Jack Sparrow 5 :

its just weird why they would allow such overages especially since they've not started charging for it yet.

agreed...very weird, yet this is what's happening...It's stated very clearly on the new usage page..."Additional usage charges will be credited for the month of April and May."

I'm up to 128% usage, and just recieved my 85% warning :-/

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 02:26:13 EDT

anon : wow!

i still can't believe you've downloaded that much. anyway to provide a screenshot of your selfcare page just to see the actual numbers ourselves. i guess im worried that if i go over my limit ill have my internet shut off.

if i can see your numbers for myself it would make me less hesitant to download without fear of being punished.

if you dont mind that is.

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:45:24 EDT

anon : I content that the markup is in the neighbourhood of 10000%, if not greater (assuming the real cost is 1.5-2 cents/GB, and that's not even really true depending on time of day).

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 22:06:40 EDT

Fireblade :

I've already gone over the previous hardcap for Standard by 35GB and I'm still around. The $30 we're going to be paying will make Cogeco a lot of money. While we pay $1.50-2.00 per GB, Cogeco is making at least 500% profit off of that alone - I'm thinking the new hardcap will be around 350GB in areas with low congestion, probably a lot lower in high density areas.

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 21:56:44 EDT

anon : so your telling me that if i were to do all my downloading at lets say 1am - 6am i could go over as much as i want without any repercussions?

i'm not saying your a liar but you've gotta understand my skepticism. under the old system soho would have a hard cap of about 97gb. then you would be cut off.

its just weird why they would allow such overages especially since they've not started charging for it yet.

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:51:21 EDT

dad_of_3 :

said by Jack Sparrow 5 :

how have you not been cut off yet?

because april and may, there are no overage charges...You'll only get cut off if you cause problems on the network..(ie..someone on your node calls in and complains of congestion, cogeco investigates, see's your over your limit...then they take action)

first post of this thread..point #4

»Usage Billing

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:38:19 EDT

anon : wow. is this just under the home soho package?
how have you not been cut off yet?

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Sun, 12 Apr 2009 23:42:35 EDT

Fireblade : Date: April 13th 2009
Package: Standard
Percent: 205%
Warnings: 2
Termination Warnings: 0
Suspensions: 0

Here's my second warning.

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Sun, 12 Apr 2009 09:36:02 EDT

HoboJ : That's sad and disturbing that it takes a whole week from the day of the warning to receive the email.

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Sun, 12 Apr 2009 08:01:36 EDT

Fireblade :

Just got this in the mail, don't think it really counts as a warning considering it's late about a week.

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Sat, 11 Apr 2009 07:01:16 EDT

Fireblade : Date: April 12th 2009
Package: Standard
Percent: 190%
Warnings: 0
Suspensions: 0

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 03:28:23 EDT

Shamans : Month: April 2009
Package: Business Starter
Percent: > 120%
Warnings: 0
Suspensions: 0

Re: Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:47:51 EDT

Fireblade : Date: April 7th 2009
Package: Standard
Percent: 110%
Warnings: 0
Suspensions: 0

I'll post next update at 150% and/or first warning/suspension.

Bandwidth usage: share your experience under new rules.

Sun, 05 Apr 2009 19:40:23 EDT

Shamans : I thought it'd be interesting to find out what happens if you go over your bandwidth cap for these first few months under the new bandwidth usage rules.

Please share your experiences. Note that this thread should be exclusively about what warnings / suspensions you get. There's another thread available if you want to comment on the new rules.