On 8/11/05, Vishal Rao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/11/05, Desi Penguin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When you say you can download 30GB odd, I'm assuming that you are > > planning to download files, music, movies, ISO etc and not streaming > > data, normal browsing ... > > No I meant all my "data transfers" up or down (ISOs, streaming, > whatever), when I said "downloads"... won't there be a problem like > you need to log out and log back in (or turn off and on your modem) > between 2am and 8am else BSNL wont consider it as you NU usage? > > I'm sure we can set up some script to PPP (oE) dial in at just after > 2am and disconnect at just before 8am and also do the download > scheduler thing... but got to be careful that BSNL doesnt consider > just the modem being powered-on to mean that "you're connected" then I > would have to be awake to power it on/off 8-) > > It would be so cool if BSNL (and other ISPs) WOULD (but i bet they > COULDN'T or wouldn't) just set a "checkpoint" (stop and start) their > data-transfer meters at 2am and 8am so us customers would just need to > schedule downloads at night and they know how much data you took > during the NU time and how much from your regular quota 8-) >
yeah the modem can remail ON all the time they won't charge u for your modem bieng enabled the have log in and log out time only and in between that time only download and uploads are counted have u not seen the details of your internet usage anytime they do have a separator they simply enable all the connections and don't charge any upload download during that time period or during that day i have used such type of things before don't worry !!! LDOM -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in) List Information: http://plug.org.in/mailing-list/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
