Bandwidth Usage

HungLO · Jul 01, 2006, 11:04:09

I almost completed my first month with IDNet and I'm at a lost for words on how pleased I am with the excellent service.

I need to know if the bandwidth usage gets accounted monthly (calendar days- 1 to 30) or from your billing date. Is a little confusing to actually track if you get charged in the middle of the month. I got my first bill on the day I signed up (30th May) but didn't actually started using the service until 5th June (live date).

Is my usage counted from 30th to 30th or 5th to 5th?

Furthermore this is what I see under broadband details:

June:
During the time period 05 June 2006 to 01 July 2006 your bandwidth use was:
28.12 GB Download
13.58 GB Upload

July:
During the time period 30 June 2006 to 01 July 2006 your bandwidth use was:
1.18 GB Download
0.69 GB Upload

I hate to penny pinch, but there is an overlap between the two month cycles. With these gorgeous speeds I'm getting is hard to ignore the allowance; is download heaven every day. I'm trying to sqeeze every bit of bandwidth I can.

Thanks in advance.

cavillas · Jul 01, 2006, 18:48:51

Hello again it's me.
Welcome. The useage is normally calculated form the 1st of the month till the last day of the month. Don't worry. Email Simon or Miriam for confirmation.

maxping · Jul 01, 2006, 19:24:48

Or check back Simon uses the forum and will answer eventually

Jeff · Jul 02, 2006, 00:12:15

HungLO, when there is any break in service for whatever reason, for example your router being turned off or your USB modem powering down, the technology IDNets end that monitors your downloads updates itself, hence the random dates on screen. From your point of view, your download allowance is between your billing dates, ie 5th June to 4th July, starting afresh from 5th July until 4th August inclusive.

Scott · Jul 02, 2006, 10:33:48

Quote from: Jeff on Jul 02, 2006, 00:12:15
<snip!>

Hey man...you're back !

HungLO · Jul 02, 2006, 18:21:13

Thanks Jeff

However, is somewhat hard to calculate due to the website way of displaying the info. If you noticed the previous post, if I query June it gives me info from the 5th of June to 1 July; if I query July, it starts fresh from 30 June thus counting 1 July for both billing periods.

Scott · Jul 02, 2006, 19:02:48

Yeah - it's been a bugbear of mine for a few months now. Last Month I was 'measured' from 1st - 14th and estimated at pulling down <> 10gb (I was getting the Vista .iso !)...while the month before last I was measured almost first and last day of the month and came in at < 2Gb...I'd be honest and say I'm somewhere toward the thin end of 3/4gb but HOW much is the question !

Simon_idnet · Jul 02, 2006, 19:20:30

Hi Guys

The bandwidth is measured over each calendar month (1st to 30th). As the current system receives updates after each logon the algorithm selects the closet day to end of each month for which data exists when calculating the average used over the month. We are working on an improved system which will hopefull soon receive hourly (or so) updates from BT for bandwidth consumption over that time period.

Cheers
Simon

mrapoc · Jul 02, 2006, 21:30:12

i suppose we really should all give simon a karma not only for his help, but for setting idnet up in the 1st place (along wid his bro of course

) nice one

Scott · Jul 02, 2006, 21:32:07

Quote from: mrapoc on Jul 02, 2006, 21:30:12
i suppose we really should all give simon a karma not only for his help, but for setting idnet up in the 1st place (along wid his bro of course ) nice one

Hear ! Hear !

Thanks for the update Simon - look forward to seeing the results when they come online.

HungLO · Jul 03, 2006, 08:10:08

Thanks Simon.

I guess I need to watch my consumption until it gets sorted/improved...LOL Hard to do with such a great service.

Bill · Jul 03, 2006, 10:21:49

Quote from: HungLO on Jul 03, 2006, 08:10:08I guess I need to watch my consumption until it gets sorted/improved...LOL Hard to do with such a great service.

Do you use NetMeter?

You can set it to track usage over whatever "month dates" that you need, and also set alarms to warn you when you're getting a bit close to your limit.

Give it a go.

HungLO · Jul 03, 2006, 18:26:51

Thanks for the sugestion, but I use PRTG to do all the traffic monitoring at the WAN interface.

I have a CISCO 837 (front end), CISCO PIX 501 and Linksys WRT54G (back end) setup with 3 PCs and 2 Laptops on my LAN segment. Not the avereage setup...LOL

Bill · Jul 05, 2006, 02:42:12

Quote from: HungLO on Jul 03, 2006, 18:26:51Not the avereage setup

Oops...

cavillas · Jul 05, 2006, 21:38:44

Hunglo is a show off yah yah

Jeff · Jul 08, 2006, 23:30:20

Tis is b******s, Simon the Southerner sticks in 16 posts and gets a karma point for every other post he makes!!. That means MY karma should be around 1010 ... it`s not f****** fair!!

**sulks**

PS, I can tell y`all stuff about him

mrapoc · Jul 09, 2006, 10:16:17

well i think we were all hoping that if we were nice to him...we'd be taken to the secret idnet base on the moon where contention and congestion no longer exist...where data is able to roam free through the brand new T3 cables, without a pre WW11 cable in sight

dream on