DataMonitor

* Data Usage and Data Allowance are measured in Megabytes (MB) and for all purposes 1 Gigabyte (GB) = 1000 Megabytes (MB).
Unused Data Allowance in any month can not be rolled into subsequent months.
Should you exceed your plan's monthly data allowance, your data usage will be speed limited to a maximum speed of a 28.8kbps dial up modem. In practice the speed will be limited to a data speed ranging between 20kbps and 28.8kbps.

thats the new system man, im still on netstats that doesnt apply to me until i finish my contract in feburary

Explain to them what happened, and hopefully you'll get someone nice on the other end who can get you off.

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i heard some big bad ass optus dudes come to disconnect you if you exceed the d/l limit argh you'll be fine! there meant to give you a warning first....check your optus email account, if there is nothing there, your fine!

so how is everyone else finding the 3gb limit now? i havent been put on it yet, but am dreading the day!

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bloody money sucking optus

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Originally posted by S_madis bloody money sucking optus

and telstra

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Telstra are the worst telco in the world .. moneygrubbing bastards...

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dont download anything at all for like a week, they usually cut you a bit of slack but its the average over the last 14 days so its gonna be a couple of weeks until that downloading spree is past you

but if you are over 10 for a few days in a row then they are pretty likely to cancel your service and then its gonna be a lot of time on the phones to get it back

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Originally posted by waXology Okay, well im still on the netstats sytem until feburary! but 2 days ago i checked my stats only to find they were at 1.0 and im like "thats not right" they never go below 8 hehe but anyway i thought that was an opputunity to cut sik! anyway yesterday i looked and it was at 9.1, and the chart showed no record of the 1.0, so obviously optus made a mistake! anyhow today i checked them and im at 10.6 hmmmmmmmm not good! not good at all! has anyone ever exceeded 10? what happens now? the net is still going well! but it was there fault which made me download!!!

umm help out non-optus cable users here?

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new set online, Summer Journeys

Philby, Netstats was optus's way of imposing a soft download limit on it's users. Basically the more you downloaded, the higher you netstat ranking would be (it was a scale between 1.0 and basically 10). 10 is the upper limit, if you netstats exceed this I think optus have the right to disconnect your service (permanently).

It sounds kinda shitty, but to my mind it's much fairer to have a system like this than to just impose a set cap (550 megs or 3 gigs) as both Optus and Tel$tra are now doing.

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Every month since i've had the 3 gig cap i've gone over it in about 3/4 days... looks like nothings changing in january

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