My Orcon monthly average...according to Orcon.

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#69871 14-Oct-2010 14:56

OK, I know I failed math more times than I care to mention, but Orcon need to check their figures.........

Got an email with the recommended plan I should move to (since their plan changes).

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We’ve looked at your usage over the last 6 months to find you the best value plan.

You currently use 14.33GB per month on average.

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I used 14GB ONCE in the past 6 months, all the rest have been pretty much under 10... I worked out my average to be 11GB going from the data on their usage meter.

Anyone else worked out their average compared to what Orcon suggest ?

Im still probably going to upgrade anyway but was interested to see how good their figures were.

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#391823 14-Oct-2010 15:06

It may have something to do with their minimum data count block or your uploads?

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#391825 14-Oct-2010 15:13

Funny you mention that I got the same email!

It was equally wrong!

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#391857 14-Oct-2010 16:31

Ahhhhhhh ... maths .... this explains the shortcomings of their services and the inconsistency around it all!.

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#391865 14-Oct-2010 16:40

Daylo: Ahhhhhhh ... maths .... this explains the shortcomings of their services and the inconsistency around it all!.

I'm blame xpd's maths. Last time we were out for beers in Wellington he wouldn't pick up any of my tab. His maths were at flaw then, as they are now...

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#391878 14-Oct-2010 17:05

Yeah they reckon I use on Avg 30.99GB per month on an plan that has 27GB well thats a crock of sh@t

they sent me an gst new plan email today so I thought I'd take up the offer of a newer plan with more data for less per month cost and this is what i got

UPGRADE YOUR ORCON PACKAGE

Sorry, looks like your request is invalid.

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#391882 14-Oct-2010 17:11

Athlonite: Yeah they reckon I use on Avg 30.99GB per month on an plan that has 27GB well thats a crock of sh@t

they sent me an gst new plan email today so I thought I'd take up the offer of a newer plan with more data for less per month cost and this is what i got

UPGRADE YOUR ORCON PACKAGE

Sorry, looks like your request is invalid.

lol, yeah I get the same thing.

"It really is that simple"

No it aint.

It also thinks I use 31gb on average, when I've only gone over that amount about twice in two years (and only by a couple of gigs)

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#391888 14-Oct-2010 17:26

simple fix ring orcon argue about the price finally get the guy copy paste the link they send you and have them do it for you only took 15mins LOL

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#391895 14-Oct-2010 17:44

as for the avg usage i work mine out to be 28.6GB p/m but that is only because a couple of times i did go way over but if you take out those times and look at the totals I can see and avg of 25GB p/m which would be 2GB under my plans data cap of 27GB p/m but still a big difference between their 30+ GB p/m avg and what i get when added together and divided by 12 (1 yr)

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#391929 14-Oct-2010 19:22

They said mine was You currently use 29.3GB per month on average. Not quite that yet. However when I go to Orcon's web site and click on the upgrade link I get

"UPGRADE YOUR ORCON PACKAGE

Sorry, looks like your request is invalid."

Emailed tech support about it but notheing back..

Update: Just did the exercise again with Chrome 8 and it worked fine. Something in Opera 7 is not playing nice..

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#392082 15-Oct-2010 08:42

Do you think they're including O Zone usage in their average?

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#392085 15-Oct-2010 08:46

I still get an error clicking on the upgrade option. Have tried on three different browsers across two different machines (one a work pc). Whatever. Typical broken orcon. I really can't be bothered with it. I'll just stay on the old plan then.

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#393154 18-Oct-2010 13:35

If anyone here has that problem of the link not working properly then just phone them up that's what i did , so now I'll be paying less for more instead of more for less ;)

old3eyes I used Opera 10.63 and had the problem it's not the first site I've had trouble with either PBT's tracking page also gives me gip

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#393181 18-Oct-2010 14:26

Athlonite: If anyone here has that problem of the link not working properly then just phone them up that's what i did , so now I'll be paying less for more instead of more for less ;)

old3eyes I used Opera 10.63 and had the problem it's not the first site I've had trouble with either PBT's tracking page also gives me gip

Just wondering if this has something to do with the latest beta of Flash. I have a Filehippo.com update advisor which shows when new items are available and Flash was one that come out several weeks ago..

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#393583 19-Oct-2010 13:25

I use 25GB per month, and they said my average was 9.7GB (oh how I wish). Then again, I have only been with them for like 2 months, so that could explain it...

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#393657 19-Oct-2010 16:11

old3eyes:
Athlonite: If anyone here has that problem of the link not working properly then just phone them up that's what i did , so now I'll be paying less for more instead of more for less ;)

old3eyes I used Opera 10.63 and had the problem it's not the first site I've had trouble with either PBT's tracking page also gives me gip

?

Just wondering if this has something to do with the latest beta of Flash. ?I have a Filehippo.com update advisor which shows when new ?items are available and Flash was one that come out several weeks ago..

could be but I did notice things worked fine in IE on the PBT page and I don't seem to have any other problems with flash in Opera anywhere else on the web I just put it down to shoddy web-page coding

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