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Ever wanted to check your usage on the new bigpond billing system without going to the website? Well guess what, now you can :)

Thanks to UA Author for this

forum-replies.cfm?t=102241&p=34 is the thread.

Download this to receive usage updates direct to your desktop:
members.optusnet.com.au/...Agent7.0.5.0.msi

Cheers. I was just looking for one of these

Is this the only one ?
Is there not an official usage meter you can download ?

D1splayNam3 writes...

Is this the only one ?
Is there not an official usage meter you can download ?
Yes and No...

D1splayNam3 writes...

Is there not an official usage meter you can download ?

There was, but it is no longer available for download off the BigPond website. Reason is because of the migration to the new billing system for customers still on the old billing system. The BigPond toolbar (as they called it), does not have support for the new system.

There have been unconfirmed rumours that BigPond will support it in the future, however, they are just rumours.

Edit: Due to a glitch with direct linking, the BigPond toolbar is still available for download.

forum-replies.cfm?t=590783

Would bigpond really give users a way to see how much they have downloaded right in front of them?? and miss out on all those excess charges from people that don't quite understand what additional usage i? I am sceptical :P

Why did they remove the toolbar? New billing system?

There's also this one for Firefox users:

netusage.iau5.com

For Mac users: www.widgetdeveloper.com/widget.php?id=157

milamber74 writes...

netusage.iau5.com
Yes, but I am talking about showing the new Billing System, this only displays old billing system although I have requested it.

So far, the only one to support the new billing system is listed up top.

New Billing system, changes to the way that usage measurement is done, and changes to the authentication system the old toolbar used. It was written well before the new platform was, and they haven't been bothered to update it. And I wouldn't say that comment was skeptical, Odium, more like deadset cynical. :P

Don't know about the rumours they're going to update and resume support for the Toolbar though, I haven't heard anything about it..

UA still has quite a bit of bloat. and updating from telstra with UA is still slow.

come on telstra, get your act together. how about you support your customers properly?

write an official toolbar usage meter for your customers.

i know this means that you might not make as much cash$$ as not so many of your customers will get ripped off each month. but it is the right thing to do. it might even make it easier to sleep at night.

just think, someone had to get stung an extortionate excess fee, to pay your extortionate salary, so you could sleep on an extortionatly overpriced bed. i ask you though, how DO you sleep at night?

that is cynicism.
nothing short of what telstra deserve though.

woobei

I can't seem to get the UA usage meter to work on Bigpond ADSL with the new billing system. Everytime I validate it times out.

Anyone got a sugestion to what I am doing wrong ?

W9cae writes...

Anyone got a sugestion to what I am doing wrong ?
Probably best to ask in the UA thread. Are you running vista by any chance?

No running XP. But I am on the new billing platform. I have tried 7.0.4.0 & 7.0.5.0. The later has support for Bigpond new billing system.

I will send him off an email & maybe something can be sorted.

Yeah he has been having timeout issues due to the login taking so long...

The FireFox plugin works like a champ on Bigponds new billing system.

I have also tested it with PPC linux FireFox & it works there also.

So nice to have a way to check your usage without going to the Bigpond site.

One really has to question there motives or capabilty. Out of all the web pages I go to Bigpond has to be slower than tar on a cold day.

Cheers Scott

Hehe, Notice that they had to host UsageAgent on a Optusnet system.

Chaon writes...

Hehe, Notice that they had to host UsageAgent on a Optusnet system.
UsageAgent was originally designed for Optusnet...

The guy who has made UA has been working to get it to work with the new billing system.

Tonight he has made more changes & some find it works now.

Myself is still having "timeout" error

Here is the new version: members.optusnet.com.au/...Agent7.0.5.0.msi

make sure you put in your xxxx@bigpond.net.au into the username area

Link to forum posting of work in progress: forum-replies.cfm?t=102241&p=35

Cheers Scott

milamber74 writes...

There's also this one for Firefox users:

netusage.iau5.com

I'm on the new billing system (seeing as I only just got cable).
Using the Firefox 'Net Usage Item' toolbar. It's working pretty spot-on so far.
Thanks

Robert writes...

netusage.iau5.com
Yes, but I am talking about showing the new Billing System, this only displays old billing system although I have requested it.


Like I said . . . working pretty spot-on for me.

I was just informed of this thread. If you'd like to help out, please head over to here:

forum-replies.cfm?t=102241&p=-1#bottom

and let me know if it's working for you. So far it's 2 yes and 1 no.

thanks

The Usage Agent has been updated & now works like a charm with Bigpond on the NEW & OLD billing system.

Follow this thred to the end part for the new version:

forum-replies.cfm?t=102241&p=-1#bottom

With this whole new billing system. I'm off contract for a while now, Just paying monthly. Apparantly i've been shifted to the new billing system as of the beginning of this month. I thought only new customers would be shifted over?