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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...
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 >.>I saw that quoted text too, and some other similar, but obviously it's not showing anymore which is part of why I started this thread. I'm in the area where it should be giving me those warnings, and it's not telling me that says I'm all good, and and the other info missing is why I was concerned it's a glitch. Plus when I moved to Gen4 Amanda had to switch our plan around a few times due to her offering us a discount, and we had to juggle it with a type of plan/discount that worked with the status meter (First plan didn't work with it right, due to how the discounts were applied). So missing this important info made me concerned for two reasons, mainly the info was missing so it appears to be a bug like before when that happened, and two I thought maybe this was due to what we ran into previously with our plan layout and discount being setup an unusual way.
I was using 6.5.3 x64, it works properly for us.
Hi cybo54,
Thank you for your detailed feedback on the new usage meter. I don't know the reasoning for the design change, but I do understand your concerns so I will send up your feedback to our developers for their consideration. Thank you again for sharing.
