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I have the 1mb Active User account and I want to know if there is a bandwidth cap - for instance if i download say more then 10gb in a month will I be charged. I have been all over the website but cannot find any reference to this, but I know something does exist or is written in clause somewhere.

Business connections have a limit. Of 4GB I believe.

here you go :

comparison chart

http://ecompany.ae/eco/isp/english/services/businessone/service/comparison.html


pricing:

http://ecompany.ae/eco/isp/english/services/businessone/price.html

jabbajabba wrote:I have the 1mb Active User account and I want to know if there is a bandwidth cap - for instance if i download say more then 10gb in a month will I be charged. I have been all over the website but cannot find any reference to this, but I know something does exist or is written in clause somewhere.

Really? I have 512Kbps home connection and have downloaded hundreds of Gigs of everything out of torrent (surely more than 10 Gigs once or twice a month) but never get extra charges.

ahamed,

buddy... the links you gave is not Al Shamil... Al Shamil home users, (256,512,1m,2m) whatever it maybe, have unlimited access. There is no cap and you are not charged for downloading at all.

BUT, I believe there is bandwidth limiting - if you have a 1m connection, your probably not even getting a 512kbps speed download. It is something to wonder about, coz the speed is extra ordinarly patehtic. For the ammount they charge us, we should demand a 10Gigabit connection

Thats good to know I just started using joost and was concerned about extra charges. I agree on the speed, I have 1mb connection compared to the connection I had in europe which was 1mb there is no comparison.

I have done all i can as well - tuned my router, tweaked firefox the lot.

Business connections have a limit. Of 4GB I believe.

i was refering to gtmash's post

yes there is a limit on bandwidth on al shamil ( home )[/quote]

Ok after speaking to a friend at Etisalat, he said if you have the 1Mbps or higher plan for home, there is no limit on upload or download.

Ok after speaking to a friend at Etisalat, he said if you have the 1Mbps or higher plan for home, there is no limit on upload or download.

there was never a limit, are you talking about the bandwidth (charges?) or speed?

He was asking about "limit" cap when doing uploads and downloads

Some companies back in the US have limits for certain adsl accounts. For example: if you have are on the plan for 512KBps ADSL line, you're allowed upto 5GB a month of uploads and downloads whereas if you're on a 2Mbps line, there's a 10GB limit

With Etisalat, if you're on the 1Mbps plan, there is no limit as to how much you upload or download in a month.

I too have an active 1mbps connection and I u/d 100's of gigabytes without any limit cap, this is applicable for home users only, corporate users have a pricing I think.

Is your Al Shamil ADSL a home user connection?

Ok guys, to clear your confusion.

There is NO limit on upload/download home users (Alshamil packages) wethear you are 256kb,512kb,1MB,2MB it doesn't matter. No limit on home users.

However if you are using businessone connection (In your office, etc) you have a limit. ask etisalat 4 info.

jabbajabba wrote:I have done all i can as well - tuned my router, tweaked firefox the lot.

Same here. I assume it's their proxy choking the bandwidth.

Like everyone else ive had issues with etisalat

I currently have a 2mb line... however for about 9 months or so.. ive been getting perhaps 1/5 . both up and down, of what i should be getting.

Ive of course moaned and complained to etisalat, more times than i wish to think about. They strenously deny capping the line, and afaik its not the contention ratio on the line affecting my speeds.

THe most interesting part of all of this, since i have kept track of my speeds for very long periods of time.. is the fact that the speeds are only slow.. from about 10-12 am to about 3-4am in the morning... (ie high traffic hours), during low traffic hours however i get full speed without fail. Since the max speed remains fairly constant as well, both when its slow and when its fast, im fairly certain my line is being capped.

After writing letters and calling and generally bitchin for so long ive basically given up..

Im just curious if someone else has noticed High-Low period traffic cap?

do you you use DSL or Cable from Etisalat?

Ï use adsl.. the al shamil 2mb service (or diservice depending on how you look at it ).


Either theyre capping it somehow or the proxies act as bottlenecks..

EDIT: If contention ratio was the problem though, i believe i would be gettin variable speeds at random hours of the day... but im not.. during hightraffic hours.. my download speed caps around 50kB/s with maybe a +-10 variance... during low traffic hours i get 230ish nonstop.. Of course i dont for a second believe that etisalat arent oversubscribing my exchange but i highly doubt its whats causing my problems..

Instead of subscribing 2 Mbps shared home account, I think it would be better to get 1 Mbps business account with less sharing ratio (normally).