[FSUG-Bangalore] Download

[Muneer]

On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 8:43 AM, justin joseph <justinjoseph007 at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 10:16 PM, Muneer <muneerch at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> I wish if there was a solution if my laptop would automatically turn on
> at
> >> 2am and start downloading the stuffs which i have placed in the
> >> queue/scheduler of the download manager and stop downloading at 8am and
> >> turn
> >> off automatically.
> >
> > Please be aware that BSNL has a flaw in its timer to calculate the free
> > download time. modem authentication time is used to determine whether you
> > are using "free" time or not. For example, assuming that modem is always
> on
> > and if your modem got authenticated at 1:59 AM, and your download starts
> at
> > 2:05AM, you are in NON free time zone till the re-authentication happens
> for
> > the modem. i.e. if your modem is re-authenticated at 2:29AM, whatever you
> > have downloaded from 2:05AM till 2:39 is chargeable because this period
> is
> > authenticated before 2AM.
> > Restarting the modem after 2AM will solve this issue. So in addition to
> > scheduling the download job at 2AM, somebody can advice on how to restart
> > modem using a software after 2AM.
> >
>
> muneer, maybe this was a problem in the past. but 'am assuming that
> the issue has
> been resolved. ....


> But this could have been a bug previously, years back.
>

I was a victim exactly one year ago. I had scheduled download at 2:05AM and
I was surprised by an excess bill of Rs. 4000+. I had to move to unlimited
plan because of this issue. I am not sure whether they have fixed it by now
or not.
But still, This is not an issue on this subject as anybody can verify his
usage online. Unfortunately I didn't do it that time.

-- 
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fool forever
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