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ret2rom's avatar
ret2rom
Freshman
8 years ago

When are bonus bytes used?

When I logged onto my computer this morning at 6 AM I had 100% of my bonus bytes available.  According to the history usage, I used 212 MB (out out of my 1050 MB at 6 AM and another 139 between 6 AM and 7 AM before leaving for the day.  The graph shows no usage after that.  So I am puzzled as to why the status meter indicates I have only 36% of my daily service plan data left at 6 PM.  Shouldn't the data used between 6 AM and 7 AM PDT count towards bonus and not daily service plan?  I am confused as to when the bonus bytes are used since we seem to always run out of our daily service plan bytes and never use the bonus ones.

  • Hi ret2rom,

     

    Thank you for your patience. The engineer confirmed for me that our graphs account for DST. He also checked in logs from June 9 and did not find anything that would have caused that anomaly you experienced that morning. I've sent you a complimentary token for the inconvenience so you may receive an e-mailed order confirmation for the free token. Please don't hesitate to drop by again if you have additional concerns.

     

     

  • C0RR0SIVE's avatar
    C0RR0SIVE
    Associate Professor

    Bonus Bytes are used between 2:00AM and 8:00AM local time.

    As to why it seems the usage may have came out of your Anytime data is beyond me.

    • ret2rom's avatar
      ret2rom
      Freshman

      It seems that daylight savings doesn't apply either because my status meter is still blue (bonus time) until only 7 AM PDT not 8 AM.  After 7 AM itturns to green which seems to indicate being on anytime data.

      • C0RR0SIVE's avatar
        C0RR0SIVE
        Associate Professor

        It takes DST into account...  Do you happen to live anywhere near where the timezones change?