| Forum Home | ||||
| Press F1 | ||||
| Thread ID: 63654 | 2005-11-17 23:31:00 | Broadband data help | penguin (9258) | Press F1 |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 405201 | 2005-11-17 23:31:00 | I'm on Slingshot's 1Mbit 3GB adsl plan. Now I am not complaining, but Slingshot seems to undercount the data I download. For instance, last night, about 6pm, I checked my used data and it was at 240MB. I downloaded knoppix (+/-700MB) and checked my data usage again before I went to bed, about 11pm and it was at 460MB! I've run a few other tests and they all draw the same conclusions. Is this normal? I thought ISPs would be strict and count your data to every single Byte!? |
penguin (9258) | ||
| 405202 | 2005-11-17 23:37:00 | Hi Penguin, and welcome to PressF1 Quite often data calculations aren't very up to date - sometimes up to a day behind. See what it's up to tonight. |
somebody (208) | ||
| 405203 | 2005-11-18 00:04:00 | I recently joined up with another ISP for broadband, and shortly after going live, I downlaoded all the Steam updates for HL2 , etc(??? MBs), and the NFS: Most Wanted demo (547MB), and three days later, the traffic meter showed a big fat 0. SInce then the meter has crept up to 68.1MB (1GB cap) - my only conclusion was that their monitoring kicked in a bit late, and I got away with a nice freebie. As you say, no complaint, but interesting nonetheless... | Lizard (2409) | ||
| 405204 | 2005-11-18 00:31:00 | My ISP only charges for traffic that leaves their network. *SO* if I am hitting cached data on their proxy server, I don't get charged. (This is at work.. at home I have unlimited usage) -Qyiet |
qyiet (6730) | ||
| 405205 | 2005-11-19 01:05:00 | Ok, an update. Slingshot's data counter seems to update every hour or so, and my data has only gone up another 30MB since yesterday. So what happened to the 700MB file I downloaded? :D |
penguin (9258) | ||
| 405206 | 2005-11-19 01:09:00 | if your not getting charged for it, dont worry about it ;) if it does show up, you would be able to see it at the end of your billing cycle.... |
Prescott (11) | ||
| 405207 | 2005-11-19 05:25:00 | I recently joined up with another ISP for broadband, and shortly after going live, I downlaoded all the Steam updates for HL2 , etc(??? MBs), and the NFS: Most Wanted demo (547MB), and three days later, the traffic meter showed a big fat 0. SInce then the meter has crept up to 68.1MB (1GB cap) - my only conclusion was that their monitoring kicked in a bit late, and I got away with a nice freebie. As you say, no complaint, but interesting nonetheless... If you're on a 1gig cap per month, why the hell would you wanna waste it all on a game demo and updates to another game? Or does your provider go to 56k speed after you've exceeded 1gig, with no extra costs? Still, 56k is unbearable for me. |
Bazman (6587) | ||
| 405208 | 2005-11-20 03:01:00 | The speed drops down to 64k when you exceed the cap, but seeing as how I joined middle month, and the traffic counter resets on the 1st of the month, I thought I would put it to the test. Demo was well worth it, particularly as it didn't get included in the traffic meter. | Lizard (2409) | ||
| 1 | |||||