Raise the speed restrictions on the £25 goodybag

mik20

Hi. I think the speed of the £25 goodybag once you’ve used up the 80gb should be raised from the 300kbps to at least 1mb because 300kpbs isn’t even enough to load up most webpages these days.

benjamin567

mik20 I think the whole point of this restriction is to stop people from using more than 80GB, anything over acts as a “reserve tank”…so I guess it is doing its job 😆

kevincunno

Hi mik20 I think it is how it should be it stops members from abusing the 25GB limit at full speed 😊

samjb27

mik20 its painfully slow that…. giffgaff should up that goodybag to 100gb

techiebloke

mik20 If you are managing to go through 80 GB on a mobile I’d imagine you are tethering it?

You have to discourage the data hogs somehow otherwise everything will be permanently slow for everyone.

823677

mik20
Totally agree. Come on giffgaff get real.

orangeman33

mik20 I think the speed of the £25 goodybag once you’ve used up the 80gb should be raised

Hello, The reason there is such a harsh speed restriction once you’ve used up the 80GB is because people were using too much data and it was becoming too much so that is why there is such a speed restriction. Bearing that in mind I don’t think giffgaff will be raising the speed restrictions. Also 80GB of data at full speed is a huge amount.

sjd75

mik20 it would be easier to have the £20 goodybag and just start a new one early

mik20

benjamin567 would make sense if it wasn’t unrestricted between 12am and 8am. And also if that was the case why even have a £25 goodybag when the £20 has 81gb of data? I’m not saying to not have the restrictions in place I’m just saying to lift it a bit from the 300kbps. Unrestricted speed depending on your phone signal is around 40mb/s and even my 1mb/s suggestion is still slow but at least you can open up most websites

benjamin567

mik20 Yeah, that is a valid suggestion - I am sure giffgaff will do something to it because it doesn’t make sense at the moment when compared to the £20 goodybag IMO.

bikerdude

mik20
There maybe a valid reason that your failing to consider or just plain glossing right over, A lot of people don’t have useable broadband so have to rely on 4G.

mik20

kevincunno please read what i said before. Not saying that the restriction should be removed I’m saying the speed should be upped around 40mbs is unrestricted full speed data 1mb is still slow as anything but at least it will load most basic webpages. Also where is this 25gb limit or and 80gb package? And if it’s to stop abuse why have it unrestricted between 12am and 8am?

scrupps

I agree the speed restriction on the £25 goodybag is too low. It makes the £25 goodybag a bit pointless. You are better off with the £20 goodybag and starting a new one early when your data runs out. giffgaff isn’t really designed for very heavy data use.

subasht

scrupps

agree 100%

mik20

benjamin567 fingers crossed

kevincunno

mik20 i did read the bit before and there must be a reason why giffgaff keep it down to 300kbp I am sorry if my opinion has offended you it was not intended to 😊

mik20

kevincunno your comment didn’t offend it just made no sense. And I think that it would be a good idea increase the speed from 300kbps to 1mp which is still slow but will load up basic webpages. And if enough of us agree to the idea then it will get changed

kevincunno

Hi mik20 I hope it works out for you and they do increase the speed for you and other members of our great giffgaff family if it is truly beneficial for giffgaff has a business which is what giffgaff are and needs to be competitive 😊

mik20

techiebloke I’m not saying there shouldn’t be any restrictions like I’ve said. I’m just saying to raise the limited speed because 300kbps loads up nothing and also why have a £25 package if you get 81gb package for £20? And no I just watch alot of TV on my phone

823677

techiebloke
1mb limit would still have the desired effect on data hoggs. You’re missing Mik’s point, 1mb is useless to gamers, streamers or commercial users.

nethe82

I don’t agree with those saying it is pointless, you can still access web information, apps will work, whatsapp will work etc. It’s just a way of saying “right you’ve run out of data, but you can still use a bit of data for vital things”

mik20

nethe82 not on 300kbps well does eventually after Several failed to send messages or you have to reload the page multiple times for it to load up and/or wait 10+ minutes for the page to load and that’s on a basic webpage.

endorphin

mik20 eventually after Several failed to send messages or you have to reload the page multiple times

That sounds like you’re being a bit impatient and forcing reloads which will take more time. Remember that the we used 56kbps modems to access the internet originally and that speed worked fine if you didn’t push it.

mik20

endorphin also remember pages back then where a hell of a lot lighter than they are now but they still took ages to load up. And how is it me being impatient when I get error messages of “this message could not send” and “this page failed to load because the connection took too long”?

endorphin

mik20 also remember pages back then where a hell of a lot lighter than they are now

True. The average webpage is about 1MB IIRC (not including audio/video) so at 384kbps would take about 20 seconds to load.

Originaly the throttled speed was 256kbps, again IIRC, so giffgaff did increase it by 50% presumably as they could handle the increased data consumption without impacting other users. They’re unlikely then to allow a further 3 fold increase especially as they’ve just recently increased the data allowance on the £20 and £25 goodybags. But who knows?

mik20

endorphin In theory your figures work but if you have ever tried this in real life I can tell you it doesn’t work because devices these days are designed to get the information as quickly as possible not slow like they used to which is why when they have less than 1mb/s most devices struggle and fail to load pages. I have slow WiFi that rarely gets 3mb/s and that struggles to load webpage. If you had that to you would understand. And also giffgaff is run by us is it not? So if enough of us agree that the speeds need to be upped it will