Speed Drop

[#1]

Hi
At present I am the old PlusNet Broadband Plus up to 8Mb 4gig max (£14.99)
I recently exceeded my download limit and my excellent speeds (250 - 600Kb/s) have dropped to aprox. 30Kbs, is that normal. Never exceeded so dont know...cheers.

[#2]

Yep - if you exceed your bandwidth, your profile is restricted to 128k until the end of your billing cycle.
You may be able to purchase additional bandwidth, but I'm not sure for your product.
B.

[#3]

but thats 300kbps if it was 128k you'd get 15k/sec max
Atleast i did for years on 128k ISDN

[#4]

True - but if it's a P2P download client it may just show overall transfer.
The max transfer speed (duplex) would be 128k down and 128k up - 256k total which would be around 30kb/s, give or take some protocol overhead and ack/syns.
Depends if the OP is looking at just their download rate, or their overall transfer rate.
Ofc, if that figure is a true download speed, then I'd agree that something was amiss.
B.

[#5]

Thanks all. I'm lucky to be employed, so I don't utilise the off peak times. Me thinks I'll upgrade.

[#6]

It would be as well to note the peak times for Option 2 is 0800 to midnight,I think.

[#7]

Yes, that's correct.
Off peak is midnight to 8am.