I can't find these options either for control panel either. I'm sure they used to be there.

I'm on 5.3gig now and still have 10days to go, ok that is peak time and is 8am to midnight, I suppose that scheduling downloads into the off peak would work,I'll give it another week to see if things improve if not I'll give it a try

My peak time is 9-6pm Monday to Friday so we are finding that quite easy to work around now I have the hang of that

the peak time on AAISP is actually a much narrower time than you first realise compared to other monthly contracts ISPS.

In reply to a post by white43:

I can't find these options either for control panel either. I'm sure they used to be there.

I asked RevK on irrc about the options on controil panel, he wasn't sure so mailed support, Shaun says 20CN don't have them only 21CN but it could maybe be a feature.

AAISP peak is Mon-Fri 9am-6pm.

It's looking like I'll have to do something and the choice originally was between plusnet and aaisp, went with plusnet in the end and it has served me well for the last 12months but for some reason the last week or so havent been so good, and seeing as their offpeak is after midnight it's a bit of a trial having to find a good gateway, it's getting that none of them are performing very well at the moment (for me anyway) so it looks like I'll have to make the move, now I've said that things will buck up you watch

In reply to a post by mistynow:

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

Same myself, so long as you have your system set-up correctly so that it does not "auto d/l" updates for things like Windows, A/V (prog updates, not virus definitions!), Firefox etc and schedule all d/l using a d/l manager then it really is quite easy so long as you are not a gamer or like to watch online TV/YouTube etc.

I always carry over some peak allowance to the next month, it's just about being sensible with these things. I mean what are the choices if no LLU is available at your exchange? Carp ISP with medium allowance but poor performance, poor CS, no proper techs and when you do phone they are in India or wherever. Or .... A Darn good ISP with people that know what they are doing who communicate with you every step of the way that offer a great deal on off peak usage but the ONLY downside being a slender peak usage offering - But even with that you can manage it how *you* wish and still carry unused off peak allowance forward every month and use it how you wish?

Decision? *What* decision?

Just to add, we believe the calculator works in IE now.
Also we have remove the night time from it to make it simpler.
We have put it on the main broadband pricing page too.

This should all help.

Yes it does work in IE now - I noticed it the other day . I hadn't spotted the removal of the night-time bit - it was a bit irrelevant as always 0.1 units.

I've also started pointing people (when I remember) at the main pricing page not the units one where you introduced the estimator.

People still seem to have trouble with the concept that they are not tied to the figures they enter to it . You can't win 'em all!

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If I read things right, you have in fact removed the night-time tariff altogether? Apart from the immediate future?

We currently have a special bonus aimed at people doing backups and file transfers over night. Instead of the normal 100GB/unit off peak tariff, between 2am and 6am usage is metered at 1000GB/unit.