Tracking of bandwidth activity will begin in June 2002.
Included in your access charges is 5 GB of upload and 5 GB of download, usage beyond this is subject to an additional charge on your Sympatico statement, starting with your July billing statement.
Members who use more than 5 GB per month will need to pay for their additional usage.
For every GB used over your available 5 GB upload and 5 GB download, an additional charge of $7.95 will be applied. Bandwidth charges will be pro-rated down in 100-megabyte increments, that way, you are only charged for the bandwidth that you use.
^^ The above was on their page but it was pulled within a few hours, here's an article on it:
Sympatico bit cap FAQ fuels speculation
By JACK KAPICA
Globe and Mail Update
Speculation that high-speed Internet service provider Sympatico is contemplating changes to its service plan heated up again Wednesday as it briefly posted a document describing limits on how much its customers can upload and download.
The limit or "bit cap" described in the posting said Sympatico's high-speed users would be allowed 5 gigabytes upload and 5 gigabytes download per month. So far, the company has enforced no such limits.
The document, posted as a "frequently asked questions" or FAQ information page for users, was taken down within hours of its discovery. A copy of the page was obtained by Globetechnology.com.
Sympatico denied there is a bit cap in place, but confirmed that a page describing bit caps had been posted "inadvertently" early in the day.
Bit caps remain one of a series of possible changes Sympatico will make in the way it services its high-speed customers, spokesman Andrew Cole said.
The new services will be announced in "a few weeks," he added.
Also mentioned in the document was a "bandwidth activity tracker," a metering system that would allow users to monitor how much traffic their surfing has generated.
The document stated explicitly that Sympatico does not object to subscribers using peer-to-peer file-sharing programs, such as Morpheus, Kazaa or AudioGalaxy, as long as they do not leave them running continuously.
Anyone leaving such a program running is offering the contents of shared folders to anyone else around the world. The volume of traffic generated by this activity would count toward a user's total for the month.
The FAQ states that "there is no limit to the amount of data you can upload and download," but adds that anyone exceeding the bit caps will have to pay extra. No rates are mentioned in the document.
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More details including a full FAQ that was on the Sympatico page before they pulled it is here
haha..$8 per gig over.. Hmm.. it becomes a lot cheaper having a dialup account, you can download more in a month.
Included in your access charges is 5 GB of upload and 5 GB of download, usage beyond this is subject to an additional charge on your Sympatico statement, starting with your July billing statement.
Members who use more than 5 GB per month will need to pay for their additional usage.
For every GB used over your available 5 GB upload and 5 GB download, an additional charge of $7.95 will be applied. Bandwidth charges will be pro-rated down in 100-megabyte increments, that way, you are only charged for the bandwidth that you use.
^^ The above was on their page but it was pulled within a few hours, here's an article on it:
Sympatico bit cap FAQ fuels speculation
By JACK KAPICA
Globe and Mail Update
Speculation that high-speed Internet service provider Sympatico is contemplating changes to its service plan heated up again Wednesday as it briefly posted a document describing limits on how much its customers can upload and download.
The limit or "bit cap" described in the posting said Sympatico's high-speed users would be allowed 5 gigabytes upload and 5 gigabytes download per month. So far, the company has enforced no such limits.
The document, posted as a "frequently asked questions" or FAQ information page for users, was taken down within hours of its discovery. A copy of the page was obtained by Globetechnology.com.
Sympatico denied there is a bit cap in place, but confirmed that a page describing bit caps had been posted "inadvertently" early in the day.
Bit caps remain one of a series of possible changes Sympatico will make in the way it services its high-speed customers, spokesman Andrew Cole said.
The new services will be announced in "a few weeks," he added.
Also mentioned in the document was a "bandwidth activity tracker," a metering system that would allow users to monitor how much traffic their surfing has generated.
The document stated explicitly that Sympatico does not object to subscribers using peer-to-peer file-sharing programs, such as Morpheus, Kazaa or AudioGalaxy, as long as they do not leave them running continuously.
Anyone leaving such a program running is offering the contents of shared folders to anyone else around the world. The volume of traffic generated by this activity would count toward a user's total for the month.
The FAQ states that "there is no limit to the amount of data you can upload and download," but adds that anyone exceeding the bit caps will have to pay extra. No rates are mentioned in the document.
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More details including a full FAQ that was on the Sympatico page before they pulled it is here
haha..$8 per gig over.. Hmm.. it becomes a lot cheaper having a dialup account, you can download more in a month.
