8. Data Usage Limitations
8.1 Each OptusNet Cable Pricing Plan provides a monthly Data Allowance that represents the maximum Data Usage that can be used at High Speed during a calendar month (regardless of the number of days in that month).
8.2 You may at any time request to change your Pricing Plan, however a change of Pricing Plan will only take effect on the 1st day of the calendar month following your request. Changing Pricing Plan does not effect the duration of the Initial Agreement Period.
8.3 Data Usage and Data Allowance are measured in Megabytes (MB) and for all purposes 1Gigabyte (GB) = 1000 Megabytes (MB).
8.4 Your Data Usage is reset to zero on the 1st day of each calendar month. Your Data Usage applies to downstream data only. Upstream data usage is not counted.
8.5 An online data usage monitoring application (My DataMonitor) is provided to allow you to see your Data Usage for the current calendar month. The My DataMonitor web-page will be updated every 15 minutes approximately.
8.6 If your Data Usage exceeds the Data Allowance for any given calendar month, then your access to the Service will be Speed Limited.
8.7 Your Service will remain Speed Limited until the 1st day of the next calendar month. Unused Data Allowance in any month cannot be rolled over into subsequent months.
8.8 Optus may notify you by email to your Primary Email Account when your Data Usage has:
a) exceeded 80% of your Data Allowance;
b) exceeded 100% of your Data Allowance and your access to the Service has become Speed Limited.
8.9 The table “Bandwidth Usage - Some Practical Guidelines for Usage” available at http://www.optus.com.au/optusnetcable sets out some practical guidelines on how to determine what types of usage of the Service use a large amount of bandwidth and therefore may increase your Data Usage.
8.10 Optus reserves the right to monitor any additional data usage whilst access to your Service is Speed Limited. You acknowledge and agree that Optus may need to take steps to protect against extreme data usage by you whilst your access to the Service is Speed Limited.
Nov-04-2002 05:17
Stanza
Natural Born Trancer
Registered: Oct 2001
Location: Sydney
I just changed to Optus last week. I was freaking out to find that I d/led 24 MB in a day just for surfing the net!!
Nov-04-2002 07:30
webmeister
beats that go thump
Registered: Mar 2002
Location: Sydney Australia
Well I just got disconnected from the internet. I'd been connected for 62 consecutive hours (Friday night -> monday morning). In that time I've downloaded 880 megs (Armin 7 hour set and the start of the Trance Energy 2002 DVD ) .. just thought all u Optus cable peeps would like to know that hehehe
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Nov-04-2002 11:20
webmeister
beats that go thump
Registered: Mar 2002
Location: Sydney Australia
And just in case you don't believe me:
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Nov-04-2002 11:27
Philby
Statement: Die, meatbag!
Registered: Dec 2001
Location: Melbourne, Australia
hehehehe nice one! i think our computer has been going for that long at some stage. at the moment im getting a j00f set, then the rest of the 5 hour marco v live in charge set. im training the modem, warming it up before i get the armin set
Originally posted by Philby
Sucks hey. And I was thinking of getting Optu$ cable. I'm not now. I mean I download 500mb a week on my 28.8 modem, imagine what I would be like with cable...
what kinda speeds u get on ur 28.8 ?? i was thinking about upgrading from my 14.4
Nov-04-2002 18:57
jp
Retired tranceaddict
Registered: Apr 2001
Location: Holland
quote:
Originally posted by webmeister
Well I just got disconnected from the internet. I'd been connected for 62 consecutive hours (Friday night -> monday morning). In that time I've downloaded 880 megs (Armin 7 hour set and the start of the Trance Energy 2002 DVD ) .. just thought all u Optus cable peeps would like to know that hehehe
WOW!!! I could download about 40 gig in the same time
How much is your telephone bill every month?
Nov-04-2002 23:55
Philby
Statement: Die, meatbag!
Registered: Dec 2001
Location: Melbourne, Australia
quote:
Originally posted by DJ Mikey Mike
what kinda speeds u get on ur 28.8 ?? i was thinking about upgrading from my 14.4
hehehe
well when it goes over 2k/sec i start jumping up and down
quote:
How much is your telephone bill every month?
well for us seeing as work pays for the phoneline and we dont get charged for downloading or anything, internet costs us nothing
I think theres one positive , at least when you do exceed your limit get reduced to the speed of a 56k , you dont have to pay for dial up costs like when your on dial up , I mean you pay $40 a month on dial up costs alone , thats excluding the $20 you pay for your ISP each month, so it kinda works out the same !
Nov-05-2002 02:49
Itchy
zero tolerance biatch....
Registered: Jul 2002
Location: Sydney
quote:
Originally posted by jploveparade
How much is your telephone bill every month?
we pay a flat fee for locals calls (about 24 cents). i'm guessing you have the same system as those poor brits and get charged a fuckload for calls, as they are all charged by the minute
) .. just thought all u Optus cable peeps would like to know that hehehe 
