With Gulfnet ISP, you can get a special “plus speed,” which allows your internet speed to boost up to 24 Mbp/s from 3am to 3pm every day.

Gulfnet implements fair usage policy, which means, once you download a certain amount per day, your internet speed will be cut down 75%. This resets everyday at 3:01am. 

So lets say you subscribe to the 2 Mbp/s plus speed plan, your daily limit, according to the customer service representative that I talked to, is 3.8gb, which by the way is not documented anywhere on their website. Your speed goes to 24 Mbp/s at 3am, and you decide to download, lets say, a game off Steam, which you legitimately purchased. 

So if you went to download a 4gb game, with an internet speed of 24 Mbp/s, you will hit your daily limit in around 20 minutes. Then, your speed will be cut down to 512 kbp/s, until 3:01am the next day. 

This is not a joke. 

You are paying for a monstrous speed, 24 Mbp/s, and then, just for using the speed that you are paying for, in 20 minutes, it’s cut down to 512 kbp/s. 

Your download speed will go from 3 MB/s, to 64 kb/s in 20 minutes.

So what exactly would be the point of paying for these speeds? My point is, there is no point if you can’t use it to download. Past 4 Mbp/s you can’t even tell the difference in speed while browsing, and youtube videos @ 720p all load without buffering, so why would you even need or want speeds faster than 4 Mbp/s for browsing?

The whole POINT in getting these faster speeds during certain times of the day is to DOWNLOAD things QUICKLY. They are offering this service BUT they are saying you CAN’T download! Hello!!!!!!!

You know whats the worst thing about all this? All the ISPs have been implementing this new “fair usage policy.” It’s already effected Gulfnet, Fastelco, and Viva. Just today I talked to a telephone rep. at Qualitynet and they told me they just started implementing FUP and your daily download limit is 3gb. I talked to a KEMS phone rep, and he said within 2 weeks KEMs would be implementing a FUP. 

And it effects ALL accounts, not just the plus speed account I’m talking about. 

Kind of ironic that ISP companies here in Kuwait are offering speeds that you can’t theoretically use. This stinks of rip off.