of course, i initially had 250kbps plan with 200mb and i gota night unltd topup and double speeds at night - which i'm still gettingso if i were to switch to that home 799 now, i'd be paying 250 more for same amount of data download. not to mention that whatever i can now download in 12hrs, would be taking 24 hrs then. i sometimes feel like i have the cheapest plan (economically) there ever was/is and i'm squeezing even more out of it. its a pretty great feeling lolzanyways i think thread is now going off topic, i was hoping if anyone else have a night plan and willing to get those extra hours can try this and post the results, though as mentioned by vebk, he must understand the risk.
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I don't know if anyone's still interested, but i'm pushing it even further.
On 10th, I downloaded till 11:00 (from the night of 9th) and still continued to surf without restarting until 1:15 (when electricity went out and i couldn't keep my modem on long enough before it got back again)
Here's my usage on that day
http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/8894/screenshotmp8.png
So next day, i pushed it even further. I queued all axxo torrents (to get full speed) and d/led till 12 noon. As you can see on last line, I've downladed ~3.5gB which can be downloaded at 60kBps in not less than 16hrs (8pm-12n). Best part - it shows 0.0 as Amount charged
I'm also thinking of making a bash script, that stores your IP address assigned to you prior to 8am, and after each 5-10 minutes interval checks your IP again, and matches it with that fetched before 8am. If it finds a difference in both, it terminates the torrent client.
Basic logic is that if IP changes, it means that your session has been restarted and you should stop all downloading.
(I assume that the chances of getting same IP in different consecutive sessions are rare)
If anyone knows how to assign your router's IP address to a variable in bash script, please enlighten me.
On 10th, I downloaded till 11:00 (from the night of 9th) and still continued to surf without restarting until 1:15 (when electricity went out and i couldn't keep my modem on long enough before it got back again)
Here's my usage on that day
http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/8894/screenshotmp8.png
So next day, i pushed it even further. I queued all axxo torrents (to get full speed) and d/led till 12 noon. As you can see on last line, I've downladed ~3.5gB which can be downloaded at 60kBps in not less than 16hrs (8pm-12n). Best part - it shows 0.0 as Amount charged
I'm also thinking of making a bash script, that stores your IP address assigned to you prior to 8am, and after each 5-10 minutes interval checks your IP again, and matches it with that fetched before 8am. If it finds a difference in both, it terminates the torrent client.
Basic logic is that if IP changes, it means that your session has been restarted and you should stop all downloading.
(I assume that the chances of getting same IP in different consecutive sessions are rare)
If anyone knows how to assign your router's IP address to a variable in bash script, please enlighten me.
Malikarjuna
Newbie
this is a big risk, you know how sneaky the providers can be.
ashishgoel
Don
thats gr8 h_k_v
yramakrishnan
Newbie
Yeah its gives you great feel when you can mint that much on a single night. But as others say, be a bit cautious. Might prove risky on some later date. Btw, my mom use to voice chat wit my sister frm 7 to 8. If she crosses the time on some days, the grace time given is just 3 mins. My counter starts ticking right from 8:03 Am . So, no luck wit me.
yramakrishnan, I'm guessing you have night top up over an hourly based plan. Maybe this only works with ones having data plan.
Anyways, I'm downloading almost everyday up till 12 nowadays, and further browsing *heavily* whole day. From what I've noticed, If I manage to retain same IP as I had before 8am, believe it or not, I can download how so ever I want unless my IP changes. I'll post my usage sometime tomorrow (server down right now).
I've even made a script that i've been testing to work for few days. It does whatever I've mentioned in post 13 above.
Its a linux bash scripts, assumes you're using deluge (you can use any other) as torrent client and that you don't need any password to access 192.168.1.1 (which you can set blank from this page)
Script : (You'll need to put some values yourself before use)
I haven't used windows since a little while ago, but if anyone volunteers, I can help in making the same thing for batch script.
But anyhow, all this can be done manually too. You just have to check that your IP is same as it was before 8am.
Enjoy this glitch in airtel's servers as long as you can. I'm greatly regretting that I haven't been exploiting it since the beginning.
But oh well, its never too late
Edit:
My usage in last few days
http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/609/imhf1.png
Some days in above logs, when I'm charged, are the days when i wasn't able to keep my router powered throughout the day (power cuts).
I asked CC whether they have a separate system to log my usage - other than what is displayed on their site. Doesn't make any sense though, but just to be sure.
Anyways, I'm downloading almost everyday up till 12 nowadays, and further browsing *heavily* whole day. From what I've noticed, If I manage to retain same IP as I had before 8am, believe it or not, I can download how so ever I want unless my IP changes. I'll post my usage sometime tomorrow (server down right now).
I've even made a script that i've been testing to work for few days. It does whatever I've mentioned in post 13 above.
Its a linux bash scripts, assumes you're using deluge (you can use any other) as torrent client and that you don't need any password to access 192.168.1.1 (which you can set blank from this page)
Script : (You'll need to put some values yourself before use)
Code:
#!/bin/bash# to schedule it for every 10 mins (using crontab)# */1 * * * * echo \"\" | sudo -S '/home/hkv/Misc/IP/check'# This is the path where I've put this script, change it to need.path=\"/home/hkv/Misc/IP\"# Basic workingtask() {updateTimeupdateSessiongetCurrentIPgetLoggedIPif [ $session = \"Night\" ]then startDownloads storeIP $CIPelse if [ $CIP != $LIP ] then stopDownloads fifilogIP $D $T $CIP $session}# updates time variablesupdateTime() { H=$(date +%H) M=$(date +%M) D=$(date +%D) T=$H:$M}# updates session valueupdateSession() {if [ $H -ge 20 -a $H -le 24 -o $H -ge 0 -a $H -lt 8 ]then session=\"Night\"else session=\"Day\"fi}# gets your external IPgetCurrentIP() { CIP=$(lynx -dump http://whatismyip.org)}# gets your previous IP that was stored in a file \"lastip.txt\"# if any error occurs, make this file yourself.getLoggedIP() { LIP=$(cat $path/lastip.txt)}# stores all logs to log.txt# if any error occurs, make this file yourself.logIP() { echo $1 $2, $4 session, IP = $3 >> $path/log.txt echo logged - $1 $2, $4 session, IP = $3}# stores your Night session IP to lastip.txt# if any error occurs, make this file yourself.storeIP () { echo $1 > $path/lastip.txt echo stored : IP - $1}# stops deluge, if you use any other client, change herestopDownloads() { echo Stopping Deluge echo \"\" | sudo -S pkill deluge & echo Done !!!}# starts deluge, if you use any other client, change herestartDownloads() { echo Starting Deluge DISPLAY=:0 deluge & echo Done !!!}# executes that basic operationtaskBut anyhow, all this can be done manually too. You just have to check that your IP is same as it was before 8am.
Enjoy this glitch in airtel's servers as long as you can. I'm greatly regretting that I haven't been exploiting it since the beginning.
But oh well, its never too late
Edit:
My usage in last few days
http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/609/imhf1.png
Some days in above logs, when I'm charged, are the days when i wasn't able to keep my router powered throughout the day (power cuts).
I asked CC whether they have a separate system to log my usage - other than what is displayed on their site. Doesn't make any sense though, but just to be sure.
W
warthog
son this forum is also watched by the airtel guys.Nice going by telling your secret.
ashishgoel
Don
kindly shift this to backroom....
Actually I gave this a lot of thought before starting the thread. Then I figured I can't be the only one to know it. And it can't be than airtel guys don't know of this loophole, I'm pretty sure that they do. Thats why they eliminated all the night top ups. They might have thought this as a better solution over correcting the bug itself.
Before starting this thread I came across this thread .
Of course, it could very possibly be that none of my above assumptions are true, and airtel guys will find about this little trick that I'm pulling on them through me, I thought that I may still get to be the one who'd make them improve their servers so that other users won't have to restart their modems at all !!
So I figured, either way, it won't be a bad idea starting this thread. Although I was regretting about the choice of the title
sounds a bit tacky doesn't it ? (Thanks mod(s) for changing it)
Also, i think it'd be better that this thread stays visible to other users coz users who can be benefited by this may be very few in the first place, and chances of them having access to back rooms are even smaller.
And about the airtel guys viewing this, I've cleared that too I guess. But if still enough people (having night unlimited - coz they're the only ones who will be (if at all) affected) want this to be hidden can reply so.
Before starting this thread I came across this thread .
Of course, it could very possibly be that none of my above assumptions are true, and airtel guys will find about this little trick that I'm pulling on them through me, I thought that I may still get to be the one who'd make them improve their servers so that other users won't have to restart their modems at all !!
So I figured, either way, it won't be a bad idea starting this thread. Although I was regretting about the choice of the title
sounds a bit tacky doesn't it ? (Thanks mod(s) for changing it)Also, i think it'd be better that this thread stays visible to other users coz users who can be benefited by this may be very few in the first place, and chances of them having access to back rooms are even smaller.
And about the airtel guys viewing this, I've cleared that too I guess. But if still enough people (having night unlimited - coz they're the only ones who will be (if at all) affected) want this to be hidden can reply so.
