Local/Blended use question

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LancelotSA

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Blended Usage for August
Uploaded 8.6052 MB
Downloaded 345.5303 MB
Combined Total 354.1355 MB
TopUp Purchased for August 0 GB

Blended Current Active Sessions
No Blended Active Sessions

Local Usage for August
Uploaded 23.6796 MB
Downloaded 1.0662 GB
Combined Total 1.0893 GB
TopUp Purchased for August 0

Local Current Active Sessions
Connection 1 13.2846 MB Last refreshed @11:20
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I had accidentally left route sentry on with this account set as my local one. I had news server downloads running overnight. Obviously I got my new cap in the early hours of this morning and I just remembered that now, so I thought I'd check to see how much damage I had done to this account.

I was surprised to find that most of the data has been logged as local usage and not blended. Why would this be? My understanding is that you first use your blended cap (in this case 3Gbs) and then move onto your local.

What am I missing? Is this as a result of me not switching off the router and PC? Will this correct itself when this session ends or not?
 
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Think I will disable route sentry for the day and confirm tomorrow morning if Telkom does now split local and international.

That would be excellent. Brownie points for Telkom if they do.
 
APoc84 said:
Think I will disable route sentry for the day and confirm tomorrow morning if Telkom does now split local and international.

That would be excellent. Brownie points for Telkom if they do.
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Yeah, I have switched off routesentry and I am just using my one account now, so let's see.
 
Indeed there's something you're missing...
It doesn't follow a strictly 'use up your Blended then get switched to Local' sequence at the beginning of each month...:
Blended and Local are seperated by the IP address you get when you log into the account. If you're capped, you get placed on a capped IP range which has no international routing so you cant browse internationally.
At the end of the month, telkom fortunately doesn't disconnect all sessions, so if you had an existing session on the capped/'Local' range, local traffic flowing through that connection in the new month will append to the 'Local' denomination of your account for the new month even if you haven't used any Blended. In other words, at the end of the month try keep your local/international splitting going AS LONG AS POSSIBLE rather than reconnecting, so that you can get the most out of your accounts.
(Any new connections made on that account while your 'Blended' usage hasnt been used to its capacity will be placed on Blended, so you want to keep Local going through the end of the month if you're splitting.)
 
fragtion_ said:
Indeed there's something you're missing...
It doesn't follow a strictly 'use up your Blended then get switched to Local' sequence at the beginning of each month...:
Blended and Local are seperated by the IP address you get when you log into the account. If you're capped, you get placed on a capped IP range which has no international routing so you cant browse internationally.
At the end of the month, telkom fortunately doesn't disconnect all sessions, so if you had an existing session on the capped/'Local' range, local traffic flowing through that connection in the new month will append to the 'Local' denomination of your account for the new month even if you haven't used any Blended. In other words, at the end of the month try keep your local/international splitting going AS LONG AS POSSIBLE rather than reconnecting, so that you can get the most out of your accounts.
(Any new connections made on that account while your 'Blended' usage hasnt been used to its capacity will be placed on Blended, so you want to keep Local going through the end of the month if you're splitting.)
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If this was true I see a little method you could possibly use to start using your local before your int ;) This also depends on how their ips are assigned and if you can use a local ip if you still have int left.

This would be very interesting. I don't have a TI account to test my theory though :/
 
fragtion_ said:
you must have had a blended session active and done that traffic over it some time between 12am and now
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Nope. As explained I was using my Nashua account on RouteSentry for my international and this account for local. It was left on last night when I went to sleep and then I checked those stats when I spotted my error at 11:24am and posted those stats. Hence me asking.
 
LancelotSA said:
Nope. As explained I was using my Nashua account on RouteSentry for my international and this account for local. It was left on last night when I went to sleep and then I checked those stats when I spotted my error at 11:24am and posted those stats. Hence me asking.
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I think the cap you used yesterday was counted towards your local and the cap you used this morning counted towards blended.
 
fragtion_ said:
Indeed there's something you're missing...
It doesn't follow a strictly 'use up your Blended then get switched to Local' sequence at the beginning of each month...:
Blended and Local are seperated by the IP address you get when you log into the account. If you're capped, you get placed on a capped IP range which has no international routing so you cant browse internationally.
At the end of the month, telkom fortunately doesn't disconnect all sessions, so if you had an existing session on the capped/'Local' range, local traffic flowing through that connection in the new month will append to the 'Local' denomination of your account for the new month even if you haven't used any Blended. In other words, at the end of the month try keep your local/international splitting going AS LONG AS POSSIBLE rather than reconnecting, so that you can get the most out of your accounts.
(Any new connections made on that account while your 'Blended' usage hasnt been used to its capacity will be placed on Blended, so you want to keep Local going through the end of the month if you're splitting.)
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In the mornin the conection must have dropped, and there for started to use Int usage when it was re-connected:cool:
 
This mornin when I used my PC it had not been re-connected, I only cheked my email and then realized and then re-started my router

Blended Usage for August
Uploaded 26.5814 MB
Downloaded 258.9301 MB
Combined Total 285.5115 MB


Local Usage for August
Uploaded 0.211 MB
Downloaded 0.6413 MB
Combined Total 0.8523 MB

APoc84 said:
Think I will disable route sentry for the day and confirm tomorrow morning if Telkom does now split local and international.

That would be excellent. Brownie points for Telkom if they do.
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I wish :(
 
bullfrog said:
If this was true I see a little method you could possibly use to start using your local before your int ;) This also depends on how their ips are assigned and if you can use a local ip if you still have int left.

This would be very interesting. I don't have a TI account to test my theory though :/
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it is true, actually they're requiered by the regulation rulling not to kill a local session. some of us have been exploiting this method for months, esp now that 'load shedding' became a parted memory
 
what would have been interesting is to see how long the router said the connections had been running at that time you took the stats. something like this probably happened:

12 am strikes
local bandwidth on Telkom account is counted towards Augusts numbers

x am strikes
connection cuts. reconnect happens. Telkom account is now assigned blended IP.
what was going through local is now counted against international
 
milomak said:
what would have been interesting is to see how long the router said the connections had been running at that time you took the stats. something like this probably happened:

12 am strikes
local bandwidth on Telkom account is counted towards Augusts numbers

x am strikes
connection cuts. reconnect happens. Telkom account is now assigned blended IP.
what was going through local is now counted against international
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That last sentence was the exact reason I "panicked" when I realised I still had route sentry running and the Telkom account being used for local downloads. Clearly the reconnect only happened fairly close to 11am as I only managed 354Mb on blended. Well I suppose with only a 384k line it could have been a while! :)
 
heh, can't believe i missed it, they did kill them...sneaky fekers :) wasted 400meg. ohwell, still say a TI1 is only any good treated as a 11 gig local anyway.
thanks for making me check guys.
*types 10.0.0.2* uhm, looks like 'x' is about 2:30am
 
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