On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 8:43 AM, justin joseph justinjoseph007@gmail.comwrote:
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 10:16 PM, Muneer muneerch@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.