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darstew

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Hello,

I am just doing some research to an issue in our company. A user has a bill of 9terabyte for 1 month. Has there ever been a case like this. It equates to about 300gb per day. He has a normal usb modem and does not share his connection with anyone.

He is with Nashua mobile and they are saying that it is his bill is accurate but there is no way humanly possible to do this in SA on a 3g stick, is there??

thanks very much

kind regards
Darren Stewart
 
9TB?! Holy ****balls.

12.5 GB per hour, 208MB per minute, 3.4 megabytes per sec or nearly 30mb/sec ... sustained?

I seriously, seriously doubt that.
 
Its not impossible.
42Mb/s modem with full access to the right base station, can be done.

But I doubt it happened.
 
I see this F@stlink SSID still hasn't been secured...

Oh Well, here is to another 9TB.
 
At R2 per MB, that is an R 18 874 368.00 bill...

Yip, nearly R19million...
 
You mean approx 9,223,372,036,854,775,807 bytes ?

This smells like a piece of software (within Nashua Mobile or the GSM provider) that went pear shaped.
You see ~9GB (measured in the 1000 scale; exactly how the cash cows measure usage) equates to the maximum number for a signed 64 bit integer.....

Software bug!!!!!
 
Mr.Jax said:
You mean approx 9,223,372,036,854,775,807 bytes ?

This smells like a piece of software (within Nashua Mobile or the GSM provider) that went pear shaped.
You see ~9GB (measured in the 1000 scale; exactly how the cash cows measure usage) equates to the maximum number for a signed 64 bit integer.....

Software bug!!!!!
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You mean he actually used MORE than that, but they ran out of numbers? ;)
 
Mr.Jax said:
You mean approx 9,223,372,036,854,775,807 bytes ?
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That's ~9 exabytes.
Mr.Jax said:
This smells like a piece of software (within Nashua Mobile or the GSM provider) that went pear shaped.
You see ~9GB (measured in the 1000 scale; exactly how the cash cows measure usage) equates to the maximum number for a signed 64 bit integer.....

Software bug!!!!!
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I think you're out by a factor of about 10^6 there. Why would they used a signed integer for data usage anyway, in case you give some back?
 
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ginggs said:
That's ~9 exabytes.

I think you're out buy a factor of about 10^6 there. Why would they used a signed integer for data usage anyway, in case you give some data back?
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Damn, yes you're correct.....my bad....runs off for another cup of coffee...

Why signed integer ?
Well, as far as I know typical RDBMS' don't support unsigned types.
 
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Holy s h i t e

To be frank nashua had better be able to show all data related to this usage,and frankly if they didn't pick up irregular usage patterns its their own issue. People have been fighting for usage notifications and limits since OOB sharks became common
 
darstew said:
Hello,

I am just doing some research to an issue in our company. A user has a bill of 9terabyte for 1 month. Has there ever been a case like this. It equates to about 300gb per day. He has a normal usb modem and does not share his connection with anyone.

He is with Nashua mobile and they are saying that it is his bill is accurate but there is no way humanly possible to do this in SA on a 3g stick, is there??

thanks very much

kind regards
Darren Stewart
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YES it is possible! In theory you could go over 10TB a month on a USB modem! In practice it will max out at around 9TB. He might not know it yet but he will pay on that account for the rest of his life! Let me guess: MTN :D
 
what happened to reckless lending? this sounds like a prime example?
 
Africaner said:
YES it is possible! In theory you could go over 10TB a month on a USB modem! In practice it will max out at around 9TB. He might not know it yet but he will pay on that account for the rest of his life! Let me guess: MTN :D
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The big clue is that it's in the Vodacom section of the forum...
 
sounds unreal. we should have a collection for some vaseline for the oke.
 
ijacobs3 said:
what happened to reckless lending? this sounds like a prime example?
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They are not considered incidental credit providers afaik and are not bound by the regulations. Ridiculous, but there you go...
 
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