davem1901, on the 30th and 31st of every month, the Wildblue FAP meter flatlines. I and others discovered this years ago by carefully measuring our usage and Wildblue's FAP meter. See
FAP Flap Follow-Up (Feb. 28, 2007) to see the charts and the progression of our understanding of the Wildblue FAP meter. You can test this tonight or tomorrow.
wm4bama, we have had this discussion about the flatline before. I have accurately reported my observations and understanding of the Wildblue FAP meter. As of November 2012, the Wildblue FAP meter still works the way it was described back in 2007. Because this is not an official feature of Wildblue, they could change the FAP algorithm at any time without notice.
I will post my data from November 30, 2012, again for all to review.
up = upload usage in millions of bytes as read by Fapzilla from my Wildblue FAP meter (the AT&T FAP meter)
down = download usage in millions of bytes as read by Fapzilla from my Wildblue FAP meter (the AT&T FAP meter)
netstat down = my download usage in bytes since my network card was last reset as reported by the program netstat. Windows 7 reports this value 2 to 3 times higher than the actual download usage. The counter is 32-bits which means it rolls over at 4,294,967,295 bytes.
netstat up = my upload usage in bytes since my network card was last reset as reported by the program netstat. Windows 7 also reports this value 2 to 3 times higher than actual.
According to Networx I download 8.01 GB on November 30, 2012, while the download usage on my FAP meter remained frozen at 7386 million bytes, 14 million bytes below my cap. My download usage jumped up from 6686 to 7386 between 1 am and 2 am because I forgot that the flatline begins at 2 am MST when standard time is in effect instead of 1 am MST when daylight savings time is in effect. I started downloading at 3 Mbits/s too early and almost got FAPed.
date time (MST) up down netstat down,netstat up,comment
11/29/2012 23:04:00,257,6617,215624060,10473556
11/29/2012 23:34:00,258,6648,249009764,11962952
11/30/2012 00:04:00,258,6648,262108708,13451912
11/30/2012 00:34:00,259,6649,310523986,16399290
11/30/2012 01:04:00,260,6684,465145526,20506858
11/30/2012 01:34:00,261,6865,1110313974,35530210
11/30/2012 02:04:00,263,7386,2488279340,63953108,flat line begins at 02:00 MST
11/30/2012 02:34:00,263,7386,3842852760,92081906
11/30/2012 03:04:00,263,7386,888805464,119954214
11/30/2012 03:34:00,263,7386,2126020304,145054938
11/30/2012 04:04:00,263,7386,2892312676,161989468
11/30/2012 04:34:00,263,7386,3268162100,171177380
11/30/2012 05:04:00,263,7386,3490125620,178093508
11/30/2012 05:34:00,263,7386,3791048624,185317516
11/30/2012 06:04:00,263,7386,4093629376,192137614
11/30/2012 06:34:00,263,7386,234791062,202401602
11/30/2012 07:04:00,263,7386,774318566,214298442
11/30/2012 07:34:00,ERROR,ERROR,1052630926,221117649,WB modem lost lock
11/30/2012 08:04:00,263,7386,468812068,10204086
11/30/2012 08:34:01,263,7386,760161306,17105760
11/30/2012 09:04:00,263,7386,1021892812,23330538
11/30/2012 09:34:00,263,7386,1403324496,32021532
11/30/2012 10:04:00,263,7386,1587821970,36139178
11/30/2012 10:34:00,263,7386,1818885422,42135274
11/30/2012 11:04:00,263,7386,1896104166,44649196
11/30/2012 11:34:00,263,7386,2152662794,50484862
11/30/2012 12:04:00,263,7386,2290342042,54835452
11/30/2012 12:34:00,263,7386,2324123084,57982102
11/30/2012 13:04:00,263,7386,2339290570,60289922
11/30/2012 13:34:00,263,7386,3207807630,78642256
11/30/2012 14:04:00,263,7386,4109480278,97153202
11/30/2012 14:34:00,263,7386,945228734,119973114
11/30/2012 15:04:00,263,7386,1529843760,131719288
11/30/2012 15:34:00,263,7386,1532184966,131726748
11/30/2012 16:04:00,263,7386,1534034234,131730022
11/30/2012 16:34:00,263,7386,1535854598,131733296
11/30/2012 17:04:00,263,7386,1537565764,131736570
11/30/2012 17:34:00,263,7386,1594967472,134166710
11/30/2012 18:04:00,263,7386,1630464276,136338622
11/30/2012 18:34:00,263,7386,1692607504,140518186
11/30/2012 19:04:00,263,7386,1722997026,143066678
11/30/2012 19:34:00,263,7386,1894198208,148039108
11/30/2012 20:04:00,263,7386,2053425562,152377032
11/30/2012 20:34:00,263,7386,2204676670,156513618
11/30/2012 21:04:00,263,7386,2474390678,162922978
11/30/2012 21:34:00,263,7386,2808041050,170573650
11/30/2012 22:04:00,263,7386,3116412924,177786374
11/30/2012 22:34:00,263,7386,3261345060,182292048
11/30/2012 23:04:00,263,7386,3442184748,186879660
11/30/2012 23:34:00,263,7386,3528119294,189239074
12/1/2012 00:04:00,263,7386,3529996934,189242678
12/1/2012 17:46:59,259,7367,13803534,702282
I will download again tomorrow starting at 2 am MST. If the flatline operates differently than expected, then I will promptly post a thread here warning of the change.