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| Thread ID: 42825 | 2004-02-23 16:54:00 | xtra's one person dialup policy | yingxuan (3330) | Press F1 |
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| 217661 | 2004-02-23 16:54:00 | HEllo In a while back about 3 years ago I remembered that my sister had to pay her bf 500 dollars on top of the internet bill because they both use the same connection. Xtra says at the site now that they charge 2.50 per hour to share to connect to the same dialup I was wondering.IS there some sort of message pop up that comes up telling you that the connection u are connected to is being shared with another person who is currently online. Like if im online and my mates online will xtra tell u about it? They said 2.50 dollars an hour.IF my friend never connect to the same connection at the same time.Would they be able to charge the 2.50? Im a bit fuzzy with xtra.The word called hate seem to come to mind.. I use paradise but was just wondering if anybody knows this answer for this question. Do u think my sister should've payed for the 500 bucks? Im not sure but maybe it was listed in the terms and condition maybe not. Any ideas? |
yingxuan (3330) | ||
| 217662 | 2004-02-23 16:55:00 | FOr paradise it is quite sweet.It only supports one dialup user connecting but lol the time when my friend used my account.Sometimes u could dial and connect at the same time.Weird..Of course i logged of straight away.JUst to be safe and not think of the word xtra no2 | yingxuan (3330) | ||
| 217663 | 2004-02-23 19:22:00 | i've heard about this supposed one person dial up policy from Xtra but it just doesn't seem to work that way for us. We have mulitple users sharing the one dial up connection when out on the road, and we are simply charged $2.50 per hour for whoever is on at the time. If it happens that two users are sharing that same dial up account at the same time (it happens) then we are charged $5.00 per hour. How can they tell it's a different user anyway? They can't. Same scenario for the unlimited dial up account: it's fine unless you get two people sharing at the same time then it's an extra $2.50 per hour (or part thereof) while the second user is online at the same time. Is this not working the same for others? Are we on to something sweet here without knowing it?? |
falvrez (390) | ||
| 217664 | 2004-02-23 21:22:00 | This has been their policy from day one, and rightly so. They provide support for simultaneous logins, but they do not pop-up a box to tell you this, because it isn't possible. I guess they work on the principal that if you have given someone your username and password to dial up on then they have permission to use the account regardless of any charges that may be incurred. |
whiskeytangofoxtrot (438) | ||
| 217665 | 2004-02-23 21:25:00 | > are charged $5.00 per hour. How can they tell it's a > different user anyway? They can't. What you've described is exactly how it should and does work. They can quite easily tell it's a different user. If a particular username is already connected, and the same username connects at the same time from another location it is simple to see they have simultaneous sessions and charge accordingly. |
whiskeytangofoxtrot (438) | ||
| 217666 | 2004-02-23 21:46:00 | Xtra's policy is very good and works well foe extended family situations or travelling members of a family. Consider Orcon's terms and conditions: Any account may be only used by one person at a time unless express written permission is granted by the ISP. The ISP reserves the right to allow only calls originating from predefined phone numbers. The penalty for having simultaneous logins is $225 (including GST) per simultaneous login per occurrence. Its likely that they don't always apply it as they appear to be a very good ISP, but the cost to the unwary could be horrendous if it was actually charged. |
godfather (25) | ||
| 217667 | 2004-02-23 23:36:00 | Ihug have a similar policy to xtra for simultanious connections. And freenet well it just isn't possible as you can only connect from the phone number you signed up with. Tell your friend to get thier own account, after all it is only $2.50 per hour, you shoudn't be giving your account details to anyone as they may visit a site that could get you into a lot of trouble. | Odin (227) | ||
| 217668 | 2004-02-24 02:39:00 | "How can they tell it's a different user ?..." Easy. You dial in. You enter user/password . A session is started if the user/password is OK. The accounting software checks for any other sessions owned by the same account id. If it finds a match (or matches) it starts counting $2.50 units in the session's records (Or if it's Orcon, it potentially prepares a nasty surprise for you. ;-)). As each user logs out, only that session is terminated, and the accounting software will add any charges for the session to the user's bill. Sessions are independent tasks. You can have lots of them running at the same time. The server maintains log files for each session. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 217669 | 2004-02-24 02:49:00 | Funny little story,well it amused me at the time. I had a double usage charge on my xtra account,absolutly astounded i rang xtra and insisted no-way-in-hell any one had my password,therefor it was a mistake at their end,They of course disputed that but after swearing on an entire graveyard that no one had my account details they agreed to remove the charge on the condition my password was changed. No worries. wouldn't have been 20 minutes later my younger brother rang to say he could no longer get online........ |
metla (154) | ||
| 217670 | 2004-02-24 03:26:00 | haha funny indeed! | yingxuan (3330) | ||
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