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6.6.0 Usage meter - Data Cycle Info Missing
I read in the past during an update or two this went missing, and then many complaints it was finally added back in, now it's gone again. It's current state provides no valuable information about...
It's not a bug... That aside the information is still there, they list remaining percentage per bucket, and amount of days remaining. Having it flat out tell you, "hey you've used too much so far this month" shouldn't be needed, it's upto each user to decide, "Can I really get by these X days with Y% remaining?".
All that aside, it does make sense in terms of Gen5 plans if rumors on DSLR have any truth to them, and trust me, you will want to be upgrading to a Gen5 plan when it becomes available, in most all scenarios.
Maybe if enough people complain about it, they might change it back to the old style, but I have doubts that they will this time.
Would be nice if there was a way to tell it to stop checking for updates though, that is for certain.
Well I'd love to hear from staff why all this information is removed? It was very helpful, and actually made the downloadable staus meter worthwhile using over just looking at the SCC page.
Now, it's just the same as the SCC/192 page, with neither giving all that info easily understood and throughly explained with a quick glance for anyone needing to guage their usage for the month. I know we can "Figure" it all out ourselves, but the app used to do that instantly, and in several easy to digest ways, why would they want to remove this from customers.
They way it is now, that would only really help a daily bucket user, until last week of a month maybe for a monthly user. But for the monthly allotments we have so much previously presented info is now missing that helps customers easily undertsand their usage and limits, when comparing the last version with the new version. No reason to install or open an app to look at the same thing we see in the SCC page
I guess it's like ebay's never-ending "improvements" it's been fixed it for our benifit with all the joy removed :smileytongue: J/K, but really :smileyfrustrated:
Stickin' to the old I suppose :smileyhappy:
And yes, I've seen all the fuss and leaks about Gen5 around many places, we just got on Gen4 so not upgrading here unless it's done automatically (Took me forever to convince everyone to get on Gen4 and they already say it's not any faster than Gen3/HN9000 - not wanna be Gen4) I'd see/like/use the improvements and upgrades, but I'd be the only one that would really be able to tell, aside from everyone else being able to tell by the more expensive plan with and a tiny bit more data per month (Not max/ultra plan users here)
I dug around looking for a way to disable the update check, but haven't found one yet., if I find I'll let you know!
The only way to "block" the check is block what ever address it is checking for current version information, if any website, it could be pulling version information from the modem and that would be impossible to block with out messing up how it works.
I am checking to see what URL's it visits.I see a version mention and notation in the cookies it logs, but unsure if editing or changing that would help. Will play later today and see :smileylol:
So... I have done some poking around and found some stuff... I can see why they made the changes, found some information about the area of concern. It appears there are 6 possible messages to display in that area.
Your Anytime Data allotment for this billing cycle is Good. Billing Cycle: days remaining. Warning! You may exceed Anytime Data allotment for this billing cycle. Billing Cycle: Days Remaining. Warning! You may exceed your Anytime Data allotment for this billing cycle. Billing Cycle: Days Remaining. You've exceeded your allotment for this Anytime Data allowance cycle. days remaining. Using your pre-purchased Token Bytes -. You've exceeded your allotment for this Anytime Data allowance cycle. You've exceeded your allotment for this Anytime Data allowance cycle. Billing Cycle: days remaining. Your Service is now degraded. You can Buy a Token to restore service.
Further investigation I found out what calls for the program to check for updates at least, in 6.6.0, which I have no way of testing since I don't have an older version of the status meter available to play with to verify that it wont check for updates...
I am actually very hesitant to even offer the modified scripts to anyone as someone may become incredibly upset that I am even poking around, even though these files aren't protected in any way, DMCA is a pain...
Anyways~~~ Further testing... >.>
Curious, what is the old version number and was you using 32bit or 64bit? I have 6.5.3 32bit and think I will poke around in it a bit and see if I can disable the update stuff, if you have that same version, if the Hughesnet gods are nice... Then >.>
