Free iBurst bandwidth after midnight

r00igev@@r said:
The man with the bananas only arrives at 23:55!
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Darn that banana man :(

Was worth a try lol

But on a serious note if your using "grab it" on usenet you can use the pause function just check your watch and calculate, then schedule windows to run "shutdown.exe /p /f" at 7:45
 
r00igev@@r said:
The man with the bananas only arrives at 23:55!
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If the man with the bananas only comes that late you should get a different man to do it.
Heck, if you change it from bananas to cookies I'd even consider doing it. hehe :D
 
Works Great

I scheduled uTorrent between midnight and 8:00am to go crazy, and got about 1.3 gigs (w00t!). Available cap not reduced by any significant amount (I might have gotten started a bit early...). If my dodgy maths is correct, that works out to a decent ~50 Kbytes/s average. Under normal daytime conditions I get 10 KBytes/s max on BT, and average 30-40 Kbytes/s for HTTP downloads.

I guess either the throttling is loosened up a bit during this time, or network load was just less than when I'm awake. As pointed out in previous posts, let's see how it goes as more people start using this great facility. On the other side of the fence, this must be an interesting traffic engineering opportunity for iBurst - with public visibility, it would be embarassing if it failed miserably. If the network can't carry the load, it must be bolstered up to be able to do so.

If it works out, iBurst is once again starting to move into an area where they are an acceptable alternative to aDSL - I still shudder at the thought of paying the Telkom tax. I haven't tried any of the recently announced uncapped 384 Kbit/s offerings - will be interesting to see how the results compare...
 
eltherza said:
Free download manager also has an impressive manager for normal downloads, but no way to auto stop. Just choose a start time on every download (or set it as default)
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FYI you can schedule starting and stopping of downloads in FDM ...
 
To those experienced with FDM, or uTorrents for that matter - please tell me - how do I get it to dial Iburst? When I try to schedule that as a task, it comes up as failing on the password.
Or do you just leave the conneciton open the whole time (I tend not to do that because in the past I have lost data - even though I have thoroughly checked the system for spyware and the like - it may have been my browser pages updating or something but I have definitely lost data).

EDIT: OK I got it working.
 
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r00igev@@r said:
Your usage looks fine. The up and download stats goes up but the remainder remains unchanged during the free time period.
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Are the up and down stats that you refer to the same ones that are mailed to us? Because the up and down stats I received via email for the day, and the balance difference between today and yesterday, come to the same total...

I'm prepared to believe you - enough to run another test tonight at least...
 
divv said:
Are the up and down stats that you refer to the same ones that are mailed to us? Because the up and down stats I received via email for the day, and the balance difference between today and yesterday, come to the same total...

I'm prepared to believe you - enough to run another test tonight at least...
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If you have an issue, you know who to PM.

To make things easier we will include an extra row in the usage reporting called Extra Bandwidth.
 
r00igev@@r said:
Have you obtained another modem yet, as I recall you were have problems with your old one?
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Maybe will change it at end of this month.

Usually I get 700-600kbps, but this night had 400-500kbps.

Need more testing.
 
r00igev@@r said:
If you have an issue, you know who to PM.

To make things easier we will include an extra row in the usage reporting called Extra Bandwidth.
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Some marketing advise, maybe call it "free bandwidth", extra sounds almost like you have to pay for it. People like "free".

Todays tests:

Speedtest.net: Download 0.90Mbps, upload 0.24 Mbps, lag 147ms
Steam: 110KB/s

I was finding iBurst a bit laggy durning the day though (usually at 80ms, was at 200ms) but that may have been that bad weather that passed over.
 
eltherza said:
Some marketing advise, maybe call it "free bandwidth", extra sounds almost like you have to pay for it. People like "free".
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But people also like to complain. Uncapped and free is an example. Uncapped is not uncapped if there is a fair usage policy, while free is not free if you have to pay a subscription.

The bandwidth is zero rated between midnight and breakfast, but your subscription still needs to be active. Namely you still need to have some remaining bandwidth left in your bucket, i.e. not be hard capped. If you are hard capped you need to buy a booster before the bandwidth during that time period is zero rated. Alternatively, you can subscribe to a speed VAS and have the benefit the whole month.

Issue is that hard capped subs will say that it is not free.

BTW: Have there been any complaints to the ASA about the current crop of products being marketed as uncapped but having a usage policy applied?
 
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