All my data is gone

japster79

japster79

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I have just yesterday bought me some data as I needed it. I bought 300mb. I used about 60mb. Today when I wanted to connect and go online, I get redirected to the Vodacom site and get informed that my data is finished, as well as the remaining airtime I had in my acount. I never used that much data in one day. Pls can someone tell me, is there a way to get my data back.
 
Probably a windows update or something. You try calling vodacom and ask what time that data was used?
 
japster79 said:
I used about 60mb.
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When you say "about 60mb" - Is that how much you estimate you used (Eg: Downloaded a 65MB File), or how much your network status shows?

If the first option, you have become a happy victim of what I call "leaking"

Picture the following situation:

You connect, log on to Facebook, spend 2 hours on chat (Hey - It happens :p), check 2 e-mails on GMail, and are about to log off when you decide to check your data usage.

Technically, Facebook chat and 2 small e-mails would use... what.... 10mb? 20mb max?

You check your data usage, and.... "Used: 280MB"

Gasp! Horror! Vodacom has robbed you!!!

.... Havn't they?

What you DON'T check is that your Windows Media Playlist of 800 songs is now magically fulled with album art, your anti-virus is strangely up-to-date, your uTorrent oddly shows that your seeding ratio is significantly higher, and, when you shut down, Windows decides to randomly install 25 new updates (Where'd those come from?)

This situation is primarily due to the fact that everyone in the major first-world countries (IE: USA) live in an uncapped world, and assume the rest of the world does too (Wait.... You bought MB... ? What? I turn on my computer, and just play online games... I don't know what you mean you "connect" .... ?) - For them, random downloads / updates / etc don't affect them at all. Unfortunately for us - It does (As it has affected you)

Welcome to South Africa, and the internet life of a third-world country.
 
I had such a leak called Win7 SP1 that cost about 1 gig +

Only cause I opened Win7 vm and minimized it to do something else. Normally my Linux desktop ask me if I want to download updates.
 
The thing is, my windows update is switched off because I try to prevent a leak, no antivirus to update. I checked my data usage at the end of the night, and my dashboard only showed about 60mb so if it was caused by some leak, then it did not register on my modem dashboard
 
japster79 said:
The thing is, my windows update is switched off because I try to prevent a leak, no antivirus to update. I checked my data usage at the end of the night, and my dashboard only showed about 60mb so if it was caused by some leak, then it did not register on my modem dashboard
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And your asking us where all your bandwidth has gone!
 
Nice post Reelix ;)

My mom recently got in touch with an old friend in Dubai who told her 'get Skype - its free and we can video chat!'.

Luckily before she did it on her MyMeg500 my mother called me and told her NOT to do it.

Took me 30 minutes to explain to the cousin (on my moms behalf) the although Skype is free, data used is expensive - and my moms 500MB would get her nowhere
 
Dolby said:
Nice post Reelix ;)

My mom recently got in touch with an old friend in Dubai who told her 'get Skype - its free and we can video chat!'.

Luckily before she did it on her MyMeg500 my mother called me and told her NOT to do it.

Took me 30 minutes to explain to the cousin (on my moms behalf) the although Skype is free, data used is expensive - and my moms 500MB would get her nowhere
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How much data does Skype video use?
 
Reelix said:
When you say "about 60mb" - Is that how much you estimate you used (Eg: Downloaded a 65MB File), or how much your network status shows?

If the first option, you have become a happy victim of what I call "leaking"

Picture the following situation:

You connect, log on to Facebook, spend 2 hours on chat (Hey - It happens :p), check 2 e-mails on GMail, and are about to log off when you decide to check your data usage.

Technically, Facebook chat and 2 small e-mails would use... what.... 10mb? 20mb max?

You check your data usage, and.... "Used: 280MB"

Gasp! Horror! Vodacom has robbed you!!!

.... Havn't they?

What you DON'T check is that your Windows Media Playlist of 800 songs is now magically fulled with album art, your anti-virus is strangely up-to-date, your uTorrent oddly shows that your seeding ratio is significantly higher, and, when you shut down, Windows decides to randomly install 25 new updates (Where'd those come from?)

This situation is primarily due to the fact that everyone in the major first-world countries (IE: USA) live in an uncapped world, and assume the rest of the world does too (Wait.... You bought MB... ? What? I turn on my computer, and just play online games... I don't know what you mean you "connect" .... ?) - For them, random downloads / updates / etc don't affect them at all. Unfortunately for us - It does (As it has affected you)

Welcome to South Africa, and the internet life of a third-world country.
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Nice post............:)
 
japster79 said:
I have just yesterday bought me some data as I needed it. I bought 300mb. I used about 60mb. Today when I wanted to connect and go online, I get redirected to the Vodacom site and get informed that my data is finished, as well as the remaining airtime I had in my acount. I never used that much data in one day. Pls can someone tell me, is there a way to get my data back.
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Hi Japster , you can still send me your number and i will check what happened.
 
300MB = R139
69.5MB * R2 = R139

Did you make sure the bundle was actually loaded by checking *111# ... 1 ... 7 ?
I always do that and sometimes the USSD menu went dead with all their confirmations and never actually loaded the bundle.
 
I know what has gone wrong. I have bought the data but it was never registered on the system. I followed all the prompts from the ussd commands and it said that I bought the bundle. But infact it did not go through. today when I bought another bundle the same happened again, I had to buy the bundle 6 times before it actually gone through. There must be some glitch in their systems. I just think it is unfair that the customer must pay for their stupid systems that is not working, but then again if there is a mistake in their system and I get more data than I am suppose to get, I would not be complaining.
 
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