Data Charges with BA

[shevek]

hi,

so is it just the requests that are throttled and not the transactions?

i was under the impression that as i set the throttle to 19 it was impossible to incur any data charges, however today i was charged over £18

waiting for details from betfair but i believe the charge was for exceeding the transaction per hour, rather than requests per second.

is this possible?

can you throttle it in BA?

B-)

[Castillo]

Hi Shevek

I've incurred this charge on many occasions, at present I'm sure there is no way to throttle transactions made by BA, but it you trigger bets via excel then you could include in your formula to stop betting if the transaction counter reached 1000.
I suggested the following a while back but got no feedback

Gary

Would it be possible to show next to the Transaction Counter the amount of transactions exceeded for the day?

Maybe in brackets like the Transaction Requests. So say a figure of 867 (145) would mean during the current hour I’ve made 867 transactions but overall for the day I've exceeded the 1000 per hour limit by 145.

So a charge of 145 x £0.01 = £1.45 is incurred.

Cheers
Castillo

[shevek]

thanks, yes i can see how to throttle it via excel,

was just testing something, never occurred to me id get charged,

you live and learn i guess...

B-)