Idea

[S1ght]

Ok, I have a 1gig month- month contract,while in the shower i had this idea,my friend also wants internet,so could we get another UTD for him and increase my cap to 9gig and then share the username or do WBS only allow one username per UTD?

 

[Crash]

Sorry dude.
Your username only works on one UTD.
A couple guys enquired about having one account and a UTC and UTD.
Basically, when at home use UTD and when out use the UTC in your laptop. Same account.
The answer was "NO".

 

[RVFmal]

Sorry dude.
Your username only works on one UTD.
A couple guys enquired about having one account and a UTC and UTD.
Basically, when at home use UTD and when out use the UTC in your laptop. Same account.
The answer was "NO".

That is not entirely true. You can have one account assigned to a UTD for home and a UTC for use on a laptop, BUT you cannot connect to the two simultaneously.

 

[8321]

That is not entirely true. You can have one account assigned to a UTD for home and a UTC for use on a laptop, BUT you cannot connect to the two simultaneously.

Is this the WBS official position? I think it is possible to connect two devices simultaneously at the moment. I have done it for short periods. Can i-Guru find out for us?

 

[RVFmal]

Is this the WBS official position? I think it is possible to connect two devices simultaneously at the moment. I have done it for short periods. Can i-Guru find out for us?

Yes it is. I have tried in the past to connect simultaneously, but it wouldn't work. (this however was a few months ago so things may have changed).

Personally I think it would be great to be able to connect simultaneously, but I am sure that WBS will roll out the "abuse of service" excuse to justify their not allowing it.

 

[native]

If it's possible then how how is the bandwidth going to be calculated?

 

[RVFmal]

If it's possible then how how is the bandwidth going to be calculated?

Probably one of the reasons you cannot connect simultaneously. If it is possible, then it will probably work on the modem ID/serial numbers.

 

[Crash]

RVFmal.

I say you can't have one account and use it with two devices.
You say you can get one account for each device.

Did you read the post?

 

[RVFmal]

RVFmal.

I say you can't have one account and use it with two devices.
You say you can get one account for each device.

Did you read the post?

Of course I read the post, but obviously you misunderstood my reply

You CAN assign one account to two modems (in this case a UTD and a UTC), but you cannot use the connection via the UTC in the laptop and the UTD on a PC simultaneously.

 

[8321]

..... (this however was a few months ago so things may have changed).

That is precisely why I would like an official update and i-guru seems to be close to the action.

 

[RVFmal]

Have confirmation from WBS that you can at present connect simultaneously to one account from 2 different modems. This is however set to change in the future (no time frame given) due to WBS apprentlt trying to prevent clients from buying more than one modem and then "renting" them to clients of their own for the normal monhly fee.

How true this is remains to be seen.