My wife has had 3BB Fibre installed at her father's house. I know the speed (I think), but are there limits on the amount of data that you can use, and what happens if you exceed those ?  I guess I've just got used to unlimited deals in the UK.

Someone may proof me wrong, but I never read that are any fiber/DSL connections with a data limit. None of the ads/billboards give any such indication.

I don't have 3BB but ToT fiber and no limit. I never measured but using a TV service over internet I easily exceed 100 GB/month.

What the service providers seem to do is throttling certain traffic for overseas connections (Torrents, peer-to-peer stuff). But likely not on an individual basis.

 

Edited May 13, 20197 yr by KhunBENQ

Tuvoc we have 3bb fibre, i use it all the time, many hours a day, wife uses it a lot, both pleasure and work.

We have never heard of data limits on 3bb.

Someone may proof me wrong, but I never read that are any fiber/DSL connections with a data limit. None of the ads/billboards give any such indication.
I don't have 3BB but ToT fiber and no limit. I never measured but using a TV service over internet I easily exceed 100 GB/month.
What the service providers seem to do is throttling certain traffic for overseas connections (Torrents, peer-to-peer stuff). But likely not on an individual basis.
 

I've never noticed any throttling and I've downloaded mega zillions of torrents from overseas servers. In fact it's the opposite, it's been speeding up recently with free speed upgrades. That's 3bb fiber.

I have had 3BB internet for over 3 years. Originally VDSL 20/4 then 30/10. A year ago, I upgraded to Fiber. I stream from the US, UK and AUS TV also Netflix and VUDU several hours every day. I also game online 6-8 hours a day using a PS4 connecting to US and Europe servers. I've never had any data limit, speed or latency issues with 3BB.

In the dark ages, some ISPs here may have had wording in the contract (in Thai) regarding limitations on aggregate consumption over some period (like a day), which might result in limits applied in the form of reduced bandwidth.

 

And there may still be similarly vague or general language about the ISPs ability to "manage" bandwidth under certain circumstances, at their discretion? If you're operating some sort of bandwidth-intensive commercial service - which is probably not allowed in your contract anyway - you might get a call from your ISP.

 

All that said, I do not recall any observations about hard or soft-cap limits on broadband (not mobile data obviously) consumption/bandwidth here in the past few years.

 

As content moves closer to the user, and local/regional broadband access bandwidth increases, the systems seem to cope without hard and soft caps?

 

I wouldn't worry about it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks all, great to hear ????

 

Yes purely personal use so should not be any issues then.