On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 10:16 PM, Muneer muneerch@gmail.com wrote:
I wish if there was a solution if my laptop would automatically turn on at 2am and start downloading the stuffs which i have placed in the queue/scheduler of the download manager and stop downloading at 8am and turn off automatically.
Please be aware that BSNL has a flaw in its timer to calculate the free download time. modem authentication time is used to determine whether you are using "free" time or not. For example, assuming that modem is always on and if your modem got authenticated at 1:59 AM, and your download starts at 2:05AM, you are in NON free time zone till the re-authentication happens for the modem. i.e. if your modem is re-authenticated at 2:29AM, whatever you have downloaded from 2:05AM till 2:39 is chargeable because this period is authenticated before 2AM. Restarting the modem after 2AM will solve this issue. So in addition to scheduling the download job at 2AM, somebody can advice on how to restart modem using a software after 2AM.
muneer, maybe this was a problem in the past. but 'am assuming that the issue has been resolved. My modem is in bridged mode and I have a dedicated PC as firewall/ gateway/dailer. This PC is never shut down, unless absolutely necessary with uptimes averaging couple of months. With monthly downloads averaging above the permitted limits, I would have had to pay more than the normal bills. And in any case many people would have been effected.
But this could have been a bug previously, years back.