In reply to a post by mistynow:

I was on the 4GB package and have now been put on 5 units and *think* i have a massive carry over

Where abouts are the extra control panel options to be found please, folk mention them but I have not been able to find them on mine

If you click on the ping graph it will take you to another page with the same graph but with the option buttons above it.

It's ok thanks Misty I tried it on my main PC which has firefox on, I'll give it till the end of the week and then decide

In reply to a post by BatBoy:

So is this quota system a good or bad thing?
Is seems over-complicated to me, but maybe I don't know what problems it's trying to solve.
It's not that I have a vested interest, not being on AAISP...

Well I had grave reservations as I pointed out in an earlier thread I started when it was announced.

Now it's up and running and you can check and see your usage in your CP I love it and appreciate the flexibility far more than was described by AAISP when the news broke. Being able to carry over what was off peak usage, in units, and then the next month use it for what you want including peak time is just so much better and useful.

More than happy with how it is working from what I've seen so far.

Am I getting this right if you don't use all of your off peak units you can carry them over for peak usage, how does that work exactly, as it appears that I unit of off peak is 100gig so does that mean that even if you only use say half of that then the unit wouldn't be carried over. I thought I'd got the hang of it seems like I havent on ipstream by the way

Just below the estimator/calculator on the page I linked to at the tip it says:-

"If you use too much then over usage is carried over. Again, this is limited to the same as your tariff. If you use too much then you pay for the excess at £4.99/unit�.

The usage is all metered to the byte, and carry over from one bill to the next as well as excess usage charging is done in 0.01 unit steps. So you don't pay for a whole extra unit just for using part of it."

But the way you put the question implies you think you have a whole number of Off-peak units in your tariff to play with.

You don't! You have the total number of units you contracted for, and how you use them is nothing to do with how you estimated what you needed.

Assume you contract for 2 units on 20CN, and use 1.25GB in peak time because you are a workoholic overtime office worker. That leave you with 0.75 units.

Now assume you also use 60GB off-peak. That leaves you with 0.15 units.

Finally you also use 30GB night-time.

Your unused allowance is 0.12 units. You start the next billing period with 2.12 units.

Edited by RobertoS (Sat 09-Jan-10 17:03:07)

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

...and use 1.25GB in peak time because you are a workoholic overtime office worker...

Is that per day or month? If it's per month, then as someone that works from home I think you'll find a LOT more than that is needed.

"office" wasn't there to be ignored . The whole "because" clause is also irrelevant to the meat of the post and, would you believe it(?), was put in specifically to jokingly suggest that 1.25GB peak for a month was a pretty unlikely usage.

The calculation shows how things work.

That's what worries me the low allowance on peak usage, I'm home all day and like to have a browse around in the afternoons, to buy more would work out expensive so I'll just have to mull it over a bit more

The Mon-Fri daytime is high-priced, always was.

As a business model it seems to work.

I am at home all day and have used the computer with no allowance problems since last August,

even last week when himself had to work from home and was using his PC for work and general surfing, by dint of drumming into his head that he had to do all updates on his PC in the evenings plus like myself download iplayer in the cheaprate I think that even if he worked from home full time the 5 units we are now on would be ample,

In fact I think I am buying too many units..