Seriously loving my cellphone company right now.
PRERATE ALL THE THINGS
So, to whichever unfortunate person ends up with my support ticket for this, I wish you luck.
P.S. I was told there’s more context needed, so: look at the bundle type in the top bar, and then at the used/avaiable counts. What happened (my guess, but I’m pretty sure) is that when I bought it, their rating system preburned all the data I’ve already done this month (under previous rollover bundle).
Alternative title: what happens when you buy things that are licensed/run per TCP connection it can maintain.
hageshii% date; elegua; date
Fri Feb 15 22:08:41 SAST 2013
Linux elegua 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP Sun May 6 04:00:17 UTC 2012 x86_64The programs included with the Debian GNU/Linux system are free software;
the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the
individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright.Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent
permitted by applicable law.
No mail.
Last login: Fri Feb 15 20:44:49 2013 from 41.10.98.194
elegua% Write failed: Broken pipe
Shared connection to elegua.za.net closed.
Fri Feb 15 22:18:47 SAST 2013
10 minutes almost to the dot and my connection is forcefully severed, presumably for inactivity. I wonder how many inadvertent breakages this can cause. It’s certainly annoying. Thanks, Vodacom.
(Yes, I know I can VPN around this, or use mosh, or or or. Unfortunately none of those were quick to do because I hadn’t booted this box in quite a while, and Expensive-with-expiring-bytes-G connection is better used on other things than this)
And this is what the trace looks like:
Host Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev 1. 192.168.43.1 0.0% 131 1.5 9.4 1.1 211.2 27.6 2. 10.17.7.11 0.0% 131 54.6 327.0 38.5 5456. 844.4 3. 10.242.249.2 0.8% 131 47.9 314.3 42.1 5400. 823.9 4. 10.113.228.1 5.4% 131 48.8 309.2 42.4 5346. 832.0 5. 41.192.248.18 12.3% 131 55.7 247.6 39.4 5290. 790.0 6. vc-196-207-44-134.3g.vodacom.co.za 7.7% 131 52.8 294.0 39.4 5234. 815.3 7. 41.0.4.1 10.0% 131 49.7 249.9 36.6 5178. 764.8 8. 10.118.46.10 7.8% 130 423.0 474.4 210.7 5155. 851.3 9. te-9-2.car5.London1.Level3.net 34.1% 130 483.0 461.4 204.0 4123. 762.5 10. ae-52-52.csw2.London1.Level3.net 24.0% 130 239.5 502.6 216.1 5009. 882.5 11. ae-57-222.ebr2.London1.Level3.net 24.0% 130 231.0 409.9 216.0 4010. 614.4 12. ae-22-22.ebr2.Frankfurt1.Level3.net 22.5% 130 237.8 473.7 216.9 5906. 897.6 13. ae-72-72.csw2.Frankfurt1.Level3.net 22.5% 130 250.2 445.7 219.9 5851. 793.7 ae-92-92.csw4.Frankfurt1.Level3.net 14. ??? 15. 195.16.162.254 32.6% 130 247.4 406.6 223.9 4726. 723.5 16. hos-bb2.juniper1.rz1.hetzner.de 74.4% 130 233.1 740.9 225.0 5682. 1218. 17. hos-tr2.ex3k9.rz1.hetzner.de 18.6% 130 339.2 491.0 221.3 5626. 841.9 18. elegua.za.net 1.6% 130 343.7 508.1 226.2 5571. 829.2
Hi-kwality packets.