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Dependent on which subscription formula you have at EDPnet, you may download and upload a fixed amount of gigabytes per month. For the ADSL Max24 subscriptions we apply FUP (Fair Use Policy). With e.g. a Max6 Dyn subscription, you have 40 GByte/month, a Neutrino 3000 entitles you to 15 GByte/month, with a Flexi subscription you can use 50 GByte/month. The sum of what you download and upload on a monthly basis, is what we call the volume, the traffic, or the consumption.

You should not consider per month as per calendar month, but from the starting day of your subscription, until one month later. E.g.: if you have entered into your subscription on July 21, your ADSL traffic is being calculated from the 21st day of each month, until the 20th day of the month afterwards.

This implies that the total of your traffic is calculated from the starting day of your subscription, until that same day of the next month, when your consumption is reset to 0.  !!! Your extra traffic is invoiced from the starting day of your subscription. Consult the overview of your total traffic through My EDPnet.

How to follow up your consumption, is explained in the article "How can I check my ADSL traffic".

If you have consumed more (download + upload) than allowed, EDPnet will temporarily restrict your download speed drastically, viz. to 128 kilobit/s (in stead of the usual 1024, 2048, 3328, 4096 or 6144 kbps, depending on your subscription). This is called narrowband, i.e. - as you may have guessed already - the opposite of broadband. This measure is for preventing network overload and potential proliferation of viruses and other malware.

Once you have used up 90% of your monthly allowed volume, you will receive a notification e-mail from us. If you do not wish to end up on narrowband, you will have to try and reduce your consumption, e.g. by shutting down applications that take up a lot of bandwidth (webcam, P2P, audio/video streaming, online gaming). That is why it is important to be aware of how much you are allowed to download and upload on a monthly basis and which programs generate a lot of traffic.

In case you do wind up on narrowband, you need eiter to wait until the first day of the new consumption month, as you will be put back on broadband automatically, if necessary after having rebooted your modem, or to contact our commercial department to increase your monthly consumption limit, if your subscription qualifies for this.
If you have a subscription that invoices you for the traffic you produce (e.g. Max6, Flexi: 0.25 euro/GByte), it is important to note that narrowband traffic is invoiced at the same rate as broadband traffic.

EDPnet does not make any distinction between upload and download traffic for calculating your total consumption. As far as we are concerned, you can safely send as much data as you receive - or even more -. As long as the sum of the transmitted and received gigabytes does not surpass your limit, you won't wind up on narrowband.

It is interesting to know that your traffic is only taken into account half if you download or upload between 2 AM and 8 AM (CET). This is what we call night surfing. If you download e.g. 600 MByte during this night regime, this will only cost you 300 MByte of your monthly volume. We therefore warmly recommend both big downloaders and cost-conscious surfers to make full use of the night rate.
Another tip: early in the morning, between about 4 and 8 AM CET, there is the least traffic on the network, so you take full advantage of both high speeds and the favourable night rate.

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