ok the cap comes in the 1st of july for me atleast cause i finished my contract f***in ages ago..

newayz... right ... theoretically i should be able to whore my connection all day tmr b4 the cap and not be cutoff then the cap will go in and ill be set with a crap load of s***...

post ur thoughts :p

A better idea would be to sign up for a new Optus choices plan, either enabling a new Optus product or change your existing product plans, hence locking you into a new 12 month, 800mb a day, net stats plan.
Do this before 1st July.

i think its a bit late for that and newayz mm dont think thatd be easy to do :(

defeatist.

how exactly would i be able to do wat ur saying? gimme some examples?

Pretty sure they do account adjustments on weekends (dont quote me). All you have to do is add or adjust a product/account by phone, and select a new choices package. I've spoken to a few people that have successfully negotiated a fresh 12 month Netstats contract.

like wat could i adjust in my account lolz??

ummm?

This may be of some assistance to you.

http://whirlpool.net.au/article.cfm/858

eeeep!

/calls optus and gets netstats from choices plan... only 1 day to do it in ARGG!@#!@#

but the thing is im on plan 4 and i dont want pay tv (5) soo... wtf can i add? or update?

Yeah, they mention something about the contract commencing on the date of the install, not when you speak to them. I'm not really sure about it to be honest.
It may be too late.

o well.... ill get over the cap... ill be downloading @ 3k per sec alota the time lolz

also when it says to 28.8kbps is that overall or per thread???

im assuming overall tho... but per thread could be possible

dogmatix man did a choices plan and he gets to keep his netstats for another 12mnths, dammit tim where are you when i need to speak with you!!

oh and i will add 1 more thing, when i got my latest optus bill, it said that for me it isn't coming in until August 1st and i have over a month to decide and what plan i would like to chose..

another others have till august?

When will I need to choose a new OptusNet Cable plan?
You can stay on your existing Lightning Fast plan until the end of your 12 month commitment, or you can change to one of the new usage-based plans after 1 August. To change plans, simply click here. Please note, if you change to a new usage-based plan, you'll be bound by the new Customers Terms and Acceptable Use Policy. These can be viewed when you go online to change plans.

there you go, i thought it was august 1st, i am asking tim which one he chose to allow his netstats for another 12mnths...

I think the August the 1st date is applicable to people whos contracts are EXPIRING pretty soon - when they say choose a plan , they mean select one of the new usage based plans, not a netstat plan.

then how have some of my friends renewed their netstat plan for another 12mnths ( these people have had optus as long as i have )

Heh, I'm here now. You've got 22 minutes to go...

lots of ppl on whirlpool forums were able to disconnect and reconnect for 12mnths of netstats

We moved house a month ago and had to get a new cable contract.... 11 more months of netstats for me. :)

same here
:)
hurrah for optus

damn eh im gonna download like 10gb today they can shove that up that loose asses....

like im getting a movie atm, and i got UT 2003 earlier...

wat else is worth getting?

um i dunno about other ppl but optus sent out a letter and my cap doesnt start till August 1... sooo weeee 1 more month to leeech

really?

rubba read up... thats only if ur still on a contract....

and are you ?

soon as i heard about all this netstats my graph went from 5 to 9 in 1 day :D

and maintained for about 4 periods, then i stopped and it is now back down to 7.. ready to do another run soon.

i went from 3 to 7 and im gonna get s***loads today!!!

no ive had optus for like 2 years maybe a bit more

ok straight from the Optus AUP

8.6 For the purpose of this clause;
a. 'Average Customer Usage' -
Before 1st August 2002: means the average amount of bandwidth consumed by all users of the Service over the Usage Period (after removing from the calculation the highest and lowest 5% of bandwidth users), as determined by Optus. To do this, Optus will use information gathered from the users' modems. The intention of the 'normalisation' of the Average Customer Usage is to avoid skewing the calculation towards the extremities of usage.

From 1st August 2002 onwards: means 1,120MB over the Usage Period.
b. 'Usage Period' means any consecutive 14 day period during which Optus provides the Service to you. The 'rolling' nature of the Usage Period is deliberate and designed so that trends in the user's Usage are evident and that an intense one-off period of usage in itself may not cause the user to breach the threshold of ten (10) times' Average Customer Usage;
c. a 'day' runs from midnight to midnight;
d. the Monitor normally updates daily and the updated Monitor will be available as soon as practicable each day;
e. Optus may at its sole discretion, adjust the calculation of your Usage or the Average Customer Usage over any days within the Usage Period due to any factors that, in Optus' opinion, may have a significant impact on those calculations.

so u lil leeching boiz are still safe for another month :)

On 1 July 2002, we're introducing four new OptusNet Cable plans to replace the Lightning Fast plan. You can stay on your existing Lightning Fast plan until the end of your 12 month commitment, or you can change to one of the new plans after 1 August. If you remain on your existing Lightning Fast plan, it's important you are aware of the changes to My NetStats outlined below.

Changes to My NetStats
If you decide to remain on your existing Lightning Fast plan, from 1 August there will be a change made to My NetStats. From this date, the My NetStats "Average Customer Usage" will be permanently fixed to 1,120MB over any rolling 14 day period. You can still use up to ten times the Average Customer Usage (ie. 11,200MB) for each usage period, however if you exceed this limit your service may be suspended and/or terminated. Click here to view the new Acceptable Use Policy outlining these changes.

hrrrm well its the 1st today
ill go see

i can still access my netstats...
so where in f***s earth is the little 3 gig meter?

its said in the contract "My DataMonitor"
ive been searching thru the site, they made it real easy to access havent they... only thing i can find in member services is My DataMonitor FAQ"
f*** optus are a bunch of retarded rip off merchants, they used to be good ive lost all faith now :/

maybe optus is doing a telstra... not prepared for the launch of the new contract....

newayz my netstats r 12.8 but they cant cut me off now because the new aup says nothing about netstats (well for the capped plans) which im on soo pffft optus...

i wanna access the meter and test it out!

they didnt realise that they were gonna get all the capped telstra fools when their contracts had ended.... like come on id pay upto $100 a month for netstats...

pfft optus

Okay i just rang the helpdesk and after my 20 minute wait of gay gay piccolo music and the tech confirmed for me that:
anyone off contract does not start the new usage plans till August 1

and Lachie i dont think that leeching was a very good idea can you say bye bye optus now?

pfft

wat... the email and the letter clearly says it comes in place july 1...

so bah...

aint cutoff yet lol

I can't wait to get adsl.

thanks lachie you just justified to optus why they needed to implement the cap...

well actually i only did that because of the cap... my netstats usually sit at 3 mate....

i dont think optus care what u do, if u go over 10 they cut u off

well im still here

probably not for long

oooer..

still here lolz

its past 5pm as well.. interesting aint it ?!