Midnight Surfer?

[rajiv]

Hi,

Maybe I'm confused but as far as I know midnight surfer with 10+10 (now called the Internet 5), period starts at 11pm?

Last night I had around 450 mbs left of my normal data and 5 gigs midnight surfer. So I waited till 11:10 and left a game to update. Why is it when I woke up this morning I had 0 normal data left when the game(which had a 1.8 gig update) should have been updating from the midnight surfer?

Please explain??

 

[Refraction]

Perhaps the update did not finish before 5 am and continued using your normal data after 5. Just an idea.

 

[rajiv]

If that's the case.... +5 hours went past with the speed being severely throttled and then at 5am suddenly started blitzing?

I checked at 7:30 this morning and my data was zero and the update of the game was done when I had awoken earlier.

If that's the case it's a load of bull***t that for more than 1.8 giggs took more than 5 hours in the midnight period and then suddenly @ 5am starts moving normally.

 

[Refraction]

There is an 8ta rep on this forum. Think his handle is 8ta

 

[rajiv]

There is an 8ta rep on this forum. Think his handle is 8ta

Thanks bud. Really annoyed. Supposed to be midnight surfer, more like midnight snail.

 

[Terencek]

Although even an open 8ta data session seems to switch automatically from standard data to night surfer on the stroke of 11 pm, to be safe I always disconnect and then reconnect a few minutes past 11. This way I have always found the night data to be depleting, not the standard bundle -- except once when a large download did indeed continue past 5 am. That could also happen even if a download has completed before 5, but the Torrent client used is still open and is thus still seeding etc. That can be prevented by setting the Torrent client to shut down the computer once the download has completed -- although of course this is not always entirely fair to others linked to you.

 

[rajiv]

I always switch it off then on again as a precaution.

Once the client for the game (in this case Star Craft 2) was done the pc would have idled without downloading or using anymore data. Even if it was still connected to Blizzard server it's not going to use that much. Very, very fishy.

Although even an open 8ta data session seems to switch automatically from standard data to night surfer on the stroke of 11 pm, to be safe I always disconnect and then reconnect a few minutes past 11. This way I have always found the night data to be depleting, not the standard bundle -- except once when a large download did indeed continue past 5 am. That could also happen even if a download has completed before 5, but the Torrent client used is still open and is thus still seeding etc. That can be prevented by setting the Torrent client to shut down the computer once the download has completed -- although of course this is not always entirely fair to others linked to you.