Welcome!

After some prodding from a good friend James i've put together a usage widget for Optus broadband. If you find it useful please click on one of the Google ad's on this page or consider making a donation. If you have any suggestions drop me a line! - Richard

Features:

At the moment the widget displays:

  • Used Peak Quota
  • Unused Peak Quota
  • Total Peak Quota
  • Used 'yes' Quota
  • Unused 'yes' Quota
  • Total 'yes' Quota
  • and Time Last Updated

To download the Optus (OptusNet DSL / OptusNet Cable) Usage Widget please go here.

Screen-Shots:

Optus Broadband Usage Widget v1.04

Download:

Current Release

Usage Widget : Version 1.50 : (LemonJar.com)
All new releases are now available at LemonJar.com.
Thanks for your time and support. Donations are appreciated greatly.

Version History

v1.14 (10/02/07) (.zip)
- Fixed an issue with the plan start day, that would cause it to be parsed incorrectly as an octal number if it started with a 0.
(ie 1st - 9th of the month)

v1.13 (23/4/06) (.zip)
- Added support for Optusnet DSL / ADSL Users Plan Start Day.

v1.12 (23/3/06) (.zip)
- New modern look for front and back of widget.

v1.11 (09/12/05) (.zip)
- Displays days till end of usage period in a visual bar.
- Added new data regex errors. (for iiNet/OzEmail.)

v1.10 (28/11/05) (.zip)
- Now displays days till end of usage period (month).
- Separated general JS Code from ISP specific code.
- Error messages are all now more specific in meaning.
- Corrected bug in Update function that meant it only checked once every 10 days.
- (Version number jump to ease development.)

v1.05 (13/11/05) (.zip)
- New Bar Color's to show % of usage. (Kim Hunter)
- Green : 0 - 49%
- Yellow : 50 - 74%
- Orange : 75 - 89%
- Red : 90 - 100%
- Updated storage of User Information.
- Updated update function.

v1.04 (26/07/05) (.zip)
- Added % of Quota used for both Data and 'Yes' Data.
- Added usage bars to Widget to give a better visual representation of months usage.
- Added a version checker that let's you know when a new version has been released.

v1.03 (17/07/05) (.zip)
- Improved stability in usage parsing function.
- Added Debug Console & mesages to widget in debug mode.

v1.02 (13/07/05) (.zip)
- Password stored Securely in .plist.
- New error message bubble.
- New Graphics thanks to James.
- Improved error handling upon malformed XML retrieval.
- improved initial user-name & password experience.

v1.01 (11/07/05) (.zip)
- Ported widget back-end over from initial NetspaceUsage Widget.
- Branched as a separate line from NetspaceUsage widget.

v1.00 (09/07/05)
- Initial Internal Beta Release.
- Implemented DOM Tree XML Parsing.
- Store preferences in .plist file.
- Implemented i-flip functions.
- Added Time-Out to data request.

Known Issues :

Current Version:

  • None at this time.

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