Telkom bandwidth usage carried over?

[Frankc]

Did anyone else noticed the same?

01 October 2007 05:01 (Telkom Usage Email)
Uploaded : 1MB or [0.00GB]
Downloaded : 26MB or [0.02GB]
Combined Total : 28MB or [0.02GB]

02 October 2007 05:02 (Telkom Usage Email)
Uploaded : 80MB or [0.07GB]
Downloaded : 1.68GB
Combined Total : 1.76GB

* My normal usage is about 100 - 200 mb per day.
* Normal business usage like updating our websites etc
* On 30 September I start downloading backups of about 1,4 GB
* The multiple downloads completed on 1 October 6.30

If the total of 28MB on 1 October 5 AM was correct, then where get Telkom the 1.75 GB on 2 October unless the backup downloads was in total carried over????

(Even if the bandwidth was calculated strictly as from 1 October midnight, then it should not be more than 800MB maximum because I already started to download the backups around 8 pm on 30 september)

 

[bwana]

Did you backup downloading end before midnight on the 30th?

 

[Frankc]

No, it was backups of about 300 websites so it downloaded one after another. A bit much different than a single huge backup I guess.

The downloads also aborted a few times so it was definitively also not a single session.

 

[bwana]

ok - let me rephrase - did you continue your adsl session beyond midnight?

iow did your downloading extend into the 1st of the month or had you finished everything prior to that and disconnected?

 

[Frankc]

I think you are right and the problem is that my session extended into the 1 st October too. (i.e. that they calculate bandwidth per sessions and ending times thereof and not per actual bandwidth usage and times)

 

[RetroPedro]

I've had bandwidth usage on the last day of the month carry over even after I switched off way before midnight. AFAIK there was a discussion on the forum about the problem some time ago. I've been avoiding last-day-of-the-month-bashing ever since then.

 

[milomak]

my browsing habits don't allow me to have this problem. a bit like iburst this it seems.