My bandwidth usage: Who do I believe?

Remember userstats.adsl.saix.net doesn't include any active sessions.
 
Speedster said:
Remember userstats.adsl.saix.net doesn't include any active sessions.
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The figures quoted above were for all sessions for this month up till yesterday. All three exclude my current active session.

If I am paying per usage, surely there should not be this discrepancy.
 
I think the issue here is that SAIX does not count sessions with no terminate time, or a dead session. i.e. The session was terminated, but for whatever reason, no termination time was registered, and as such the session is considered as active.
Your ISP counts the usage on that session, SAIX does not.

This is my best guess, but I could be wrong.
 
SAIX totals stats on the start session, while some ISP's calculate youre stats on the session end information.

I.E You download as much as you can on the last day, you disconnect the next day at 1 am. SAiX sees that traffic as part of last month, youre ISP sees it as part of the next month. Then you get a difference for this month between SAIX and your ISP's stats.
 
Well my usage tracker give me acurate (at least I believe it...) usages per day (telkom's usage tracker)...yet the e-mail Telkom sends me every week says I don't use anything...My upload is 0.000gb as well as my download usage, yet I do get capped...

...still wanna take it up with them...
 
Requests for downloads take more bandwidth than expected. I don't like that. :-)
 
Telkomhater said:
Thanks guys for the suggestions. Bearing in mind that the stats above are 2 -22 MArch (I never logged on on the 1st March).

IF you have the time, wont you please do the comparison with your own accounts and see what differences show up.

1. https://antibody.za.net/sasaonline/
2. http://userstats.adsl.saix.net/
3. your own ISP's user information
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Surely antibody's app should give identical answers to userstats.adsl.saix.net - doesn't it just run off those stats?
 
I'd suggest that the Teklom one is the one to believe. If Teklom is selling bandwith to the ISP and the ISP is selling it to you then the ISP is gouging you on the difference.

Nevermind that it probably doesn't work this way - but let's say that Teklom sell the bandwidth at R1 per MB to the ISP, and the ISP sells it to you at R2 per MB. Short of it is that the ISP gets (979-919)*2 (R120) for nothing. Sure, you may have used that R120 but the ISP didn't pay for it, so why can't the two of you split the winfall. Teklom can hardly fell agrieved becuase it is a perishable product - unless they allow you to accumlate bandwidth not used from month to month.

Even if you take that simple model to how it probably works - Teklom sells a bunch of timeshare to the ISP and then the ISP tries to manage its pyramid, you are still being gouged. The ISP is still making money on the discrepancies that arise - in fact they are forcing you into their multiplier model, rather than looking at an individual's consumption. Never mind that they sold you a bulk product that is almost impossible to use efficiently. Tell me of one person who has been able to use exactly every single bit he purchased and only that. Can't be done.
 
I had the same problem twice before except the difference's where around 350mb's which caused me to get caped on the 24th of the one month. After argueing with my ISP and them basicly telling me it wasnt there problem and I must ask SAIX why there was a difference, I cancled my account and moved to WebAfrica and have had no problems since. Who is your ISP Telkomhater, it would be intresting to know if it is the same one I had problems with.
 
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