As most of you TPG users out there would know
Their download counters totally suck!!
When I did some calculations of how much I download each month, the numbers came down to somewhere between 50-60gigs. However, even on the 70gb/month plan, i still somehow manage to go over the limit every month (well atleast TPG say i do).
Just a quick browse through whirlpool forums and tpg forums, and you can easily tell that TPG do rip their customers off using their innacurate counters (not to mention the drop out complaints).
However, this innacuracy does play to an advantage occationally.
Back in the days when i was using Telstra Bigpond, i once made a suprising discovery, when i noticed that i would get uncapped on the 1st of the month, yet my billing period starts on the 2nd, so data downloaded on the 1st would still contribute to the previous month's quota. Thus, on the 1st of every month, at the strike of midnight, all my downloads would fire up, and i would enjoy 24hrs of unmetered downloads. Unfortunately, adsl1 speeds running at 1.5mbit/sec would only allow me to get around 5 to 8gigs of free data.
Now with TPG, my billing period ends on the 19th of each month. On the 18th of May, I had already used up 95% of my peak, and 98% of my offpeak. Since i was not gonna be home on the 19th, and there were many things that i intended to download for the June period, I decided to fire up all my torrents which included the 10.9gig Final Fantasy VII Advent Children Complete edition 1080p, and a couple of anime series (Aprroximately 18gigs of data). Torrents were set to auto start at 1am on the 19th of May.
When i woke up the next morning, to my surprise, not only were all the torrents completed, but my download meters were still showing 95% and 98%. And I still wasnt capped!!!
Then i was thinking, maybe there was some sorta delay with tpg, and they would most likely forward the used ammount to next months quota.
Then came the 20th....all download meters reset back to 0%, net still running at usual speeds.
And just to be completely sure, i rechecked today to see the meters at 3% and 6% offpeak (which seems a bit off, but reasonable enough)
So, how to exploit the system? Make sure you aren't capped for both on and off peak. Start mass downloading at 1am on the last day of your billing period. If my theory is correct, you should enjoy 23hrs of unmetered downloads. Either way, you dont have much to lose anyway, since under normal circumstance, you'll end up being capped for 1 day. Worth the try imo.
So to all you TPG users out there, please give it a go, and provide some feedback!!
I would be attempting this for the next few months to see if my theory remains true.
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