[TelstraClear] Telstraclear Online Usage Meter.

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NzKaizer

130 posts

Master Geek

#63971 5-Jul-2010 12:41

I have two questions:

Do telstra bill your account by data usage estimated by their online usage meter?

If so, how long do they take to update usage on the meter?

I'm just wondering, because the same usage exploit that worked when I was on a telecom caped plan appears to work on Telstra as well.

RedSnow

4 posts

Wannabe Geek

#348527 6-Jul-2010 19:15

As far I am aware the usage I have been billed for has always been the same as the usage shown on the online meter. It usually takes 2hours or so for it to update but can sometimes take longer.

Any hints or tips as to what this exploit is?

NzKaizer

130 posts

Master Geek

#348784 7-Jul-2010 15:54

RedSnow: As far I am aware the usage I have been billed for has always been the same as the usage shown on the online meter. It usually takes 2hours or so for it to update but can sometimes take longer.

Any hints or tips as to what this exploit is?

Alright, thanks.

Well hopefully this isn't a one time thing.

From what I can tell, data used on the last few hours before my billing period rolled over was not added to my usage meter.

So, the last 2Gb or so of usage that I used during the last few hours on the last day of the billing cycle do not appear to have being added to the total usage for that billing period.

When I was with telecom, the same thing happend, so I left all my downloads until the last day of the billing month and then downloaded everything that night as it would not appear on the usage meter.

However, the same did not work with Orcon.

It would appear though, that it works with telstraclear :)

eXDee

4033 posts

Uber Geek
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#348829 7-Jul-2010 18:40

On telstraclear it used to bill the last 2 hours of the billing month as part of the next day. Not sure if it still does this though, but there have been threads on gpforums and here about it.
You can observe this because if you look at the daily usage graph, it will show usage for the next day already on the meter.
I've done a last minute download spree up till midnight, only to find that it'd put 4gb of usage onto the next month when i checked it the following day.

Complaining to telstraclear didnt do anything, usually i'd take something like this further because its misleading, but i've given up on trying to max out my internet cap.

JarrodM

978 posts

Ultimate Geek
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#348893 7-Jul-2010 22:23

Mine has startedworking again at 1pm. so it hasn't accounted for any usage from 6 last night to 1 this afternoon. wonder what's going to happen.

NzKaizer

130 posts

Master Geek

#348907 7-Jul-2010 23:09

eXDee: On telstraclear it used to bill the last 2 hours of the billing month as part of the next day. Not sure if it still does this though, but there have been threads on gpforums and here about it.
You can observe this because if you look at the daily usage graph, it will show usage for the next day already on the meter.
I've done a last minute download spree up till midnight, only to find that it'd put 4gb of usage onto the next month when i checked it the following day.

Complaining to telstraclear didnt do anything, usually i'd take something like this further because its misleading, but i've given up on trying to max out my internet cap.

Yup, I checked my daily usage meter and the day after the billing cycle ended, the last day's usage was not added onto the new billing cycle.

RedSnow

4 posts

Wannabe Geek

#349049 8-Jul-2010 12:16

So do you download say from 10pm till 12 and then stop? Or do you start some downloads late at night and then just let them run until they're finished?

For me I think it has always just added late usage onto the morning of the next billing period but if there's a way around that it'd be great.

Cheers!