After being screwed by Verizon last month for incorrect data usage (My UM510 reported 870+MBPS, and I doubt we’ll even see that on EVDO Rev-C), I’m now hell bent on Verizon and their bandwidth charges.
If I go over that 5GB limit myself, I have no problem. Last month Verizon made me pay 50.00 (originally 200.00) over-bandwidth charges for bandwidth I didn’t use, and refused to pay any more than 25% of it, as I’m in Hawaii, were you can barely pull 1.5 MBPS off this thing. This isn’t the Metro NYC area guys. So now that Verizon has screwed me, after Dave Naimaister from Data Support @ Verizon HQ in NC assured me it would be taken care of; Verizon, you’re getting called out on your Data Usage scams. Way to drop the ball there, after assuring me it would be fixed.
I’ll add more about this after I get the screen grabs from the Netbook, but something that bothers me in this whole Netbook 1151NRsetup you forgot about. Slipstreaming XP. For some lay men, this word may not make sense. Basically means to pre-load windows updates, with the installation CD. From watching Verizon’s bootleg setup of using Batch Files to install the VZAccess Manager, why the hell could you have not used the same process for Windows Updates? Sure XP SP3 is slip-streamed, but just about every uploaded torrent of stolen XP on the internet is too.
Congrats, you guys have the technical skills of a script kiddie who burns his OEM CD of XP Home and uploads it to TPB. Except you’re releasing ‘hundreds of thousands’ to these, and then charging by the MB for Data Usage.
So I got my New Netbook, and after only doing 1 speed test that took up exactly 1.75 MB inbound and .92 MB outbound, I watched in horror as automatic updates ate away my bandwidth, to the tune of over 85+ MB. For a 5GB plan, this is just another brick in the wall. For those on the 250 MB plan, who pay 10 cents per MB over, this is close to 9.00 in bandwidth that’s being downloaded from Windows website that they SHOULDN’T incur.
If your defense is, oh those are brand new updates, my screenshots show different, since SP3, you haven’t bothered with any updates, there were 44+ updates to be applied, then on the restart IE8 popped up. It’s rather obvious, as you can install VZAccess Manager and brand the machine with old batch files, that you can just as easily use the un-attended install mode of these updates, LOAD THEM with the PC, and install them via another batch process (or .bat) file upon the Netbook being booted up.
I’d suggest crediting all legacy Netbook owners with 80MB of crucial Windows Updates that should have been slip-streamed.
Then call the lazy tech department / department that provisions and burns the ISO images into these machines, start getting your stuff together, and slip-stream these 40+ updates, or in the very least, due to your antiquated style of doing things, use the un-attended install of the updates, and throw them into a batch file.
In the meantime, I’m getting those 80 MB back, and Verizon, you will be called out on your Netbook 1151NR and it’s trigger-happy sense to download any and all Windows Updates, at a hefty price to the consumer.
Verizon NC HQ: You all know my number and e-mail address, I’d love for you to get back to me, or even a quote would be lovely!
Peace, Love & Mahalo,
K
