How Often Do You Exceed Your Monthly Broadband Quota?

This needs to be an option:

“It happens occasionally, but only because I’m careful about managing downloads”

I shunt as much of my downloading onto unmetered sources as possible, I also try to schedule downloads to off-peak times if possible.
Occasionally, close to the end of a month, I will go over the limit.
Often I’ll queue up stuff to deliberately take myself to and over the limit in the last few days of the month.

Usually every 2nd or 3rd month I’ll bust my limit. My brother-in-law, who has 3 computers and as many kids, busts his nearly every month. We’re both on a similar plan with Exetel with 30gb peak/unlimited off-peak.

Now I have droped my allowance down to 30+30, its basically every other month, and I do try to watch it as well.

I’m currently on a 10/unlimited naked plan with Exetel although about to change to TPG.
Most downloading is scheduled for off-peak but I still go over quota maybe every 3rd month when some are forced through during peak although at 50c/GB excess it’s still cheaper to stay on same plan rather than bumping up to next plan rate.

However price revisions have removed Exetel’s price advantage and I’m looking at TPG’s $60/200GB naked or possibly their $30 unlimited when combined with their $30 phone plan (which will remain unused). Anyone care to share their TPG experiences?

There should be another option which says “never, because my quota is unlimited.”

We were on a 300GB plan with TPG before that, and we used to exceed it intentionally on the last day every month.

I used to go over every single month now that we have upgraded to a 100GB Quota it is fine.

Because of how TPG meters we would exceedas much as possible on the last day (second last and last nights too). Normally putting us 20-30 gig over our limit but never being capped.

We go through periods of not using anywhere near our total peak quota each month, and then periods of exceeding it every month. When we do exceed it, its usually not till the last few days of the month and it is because we’ve downloaded a huge game off steam (last month we got the civ IV package which was about 10GB in total for four games) or because we’ve watched a lot of videos online.

I tend to switch plans every now again depending on what are needs are and we do try to be careful and do most things during offpeak time when the quota is almost three times as much as peak.

We have only exceeded ours once, though we doubled our limit’s usage recently causing us a hefty bill. We should have put measures in place re email notification but since we rarely use 50% of our quota we have never gottan around to doing it, it would be nice had the ISP emailed us when a certain (lets say 5GB) amount exceeded our limit, thus alerting us of what was happening and to make the required measures to ensure it didn’t keep going up! (exceeded the quota by 15GB).. costly when you dont get shaped for exceeding. There should be a cut off limit for those of us who aren’t aware its happening.

No but that is only because I am on 100/100 and the next plan down in 10/10 if there was a 30/30 option I would change in a heartbeat.

Haven’t been shaped for ages. I’d rather see price reductions than further quota increases.