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dfbeck
Junior
8 years ago

Data Usage Meter inconsistancies

I'm starting a new thread in the hopes that someone at Hughes will notice. I am trying to figure out where I can check my data usage in real time compared to real time. The change in the design of t...
Data Management
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    C0RR0SIVE
    8 years ago

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GabeU
Distinguished Professor IV

dfbeck

 

Although this isn't really what you're looking for, if I want to know if I'm running myself up against the wall I just multiply the days I have left in my cycle by the average daily allowance.  My daily allowance is 645MB, as it's a 31 day cycle this time and I have the 20GB plan.  20GB divided by 31 days is 645MB per day.  Right now I have 9 days left in my cycle, and I have about 8000MB of data remaining.  9 days times 645MB is 5805MB, so I'm good.  If the amount I have left was smaller than 5805MB, I'd be in trouble, at least concerning my average allowable daily data amount.  

 

You have the 50GB plan, so your average daily allowance (31 days for you in this cycle, too) is 1613MB.  So, if you have six days left in your cycle, by the average, you should have 9678MB.  If what you have left is more than 9678MB you're good.  If what you have left is less than 9678MB, you'd basically be over what you should have used by now.  Judging by your top picture, it looks like you have around 11GB left, or maybe a little less by now.  That's about 1.3GB of wiggle room, so you're okay.  Again, going by the allowable daily average, you should have about 9678MB left, and you have around 11,000MB, so you're still okay.  

 

I hope I didn't confuse you.  

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MarkJFine
Professor
8 years ago

I'll echo what GabeU @ said.

It's a simple bytes left vs. time averaging exercise - and managing to stay under that number.

No meter is going to predict your usage in the future.

No real-time display is going to help you manage future usage either.

Not sure why this is so hard.

 

Edit:

To that end, had you read the whole thread I created instead of just adding to it, you'd have seen that I already recommended two things that you keep coming back to:
1. Adding a Daily display to the Cumulative 'remaining' History display.
2. Making the current day in the History display dynamically update to synchronize with the Usage display.

Both are easily implemented in the current code, as I've already done it myself.The only thing I'd possibly add to this is a line showing where the average daily remaining amount would be, as a guide.