On 27/03/17 22:01, 'Bob Pearce'frerrick@... [TramsDownUnder] wrote:

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> Hi all,

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> Can the various cards be topped up from your home PC or any other PC,

> OR is that toooooo hard for the boffins to work out ???

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The trouble with that is that requires ALL the readers to be online,
which in the early days really wasn't practical for 'mobile' readers -
hence Myki saying it would take 48hrs for your top up to get to your
card. I think GoCard was similar. This was because the 'mobile units'
had to return to a depot to get the updates.

Sydney's Opal, being some what later, from the start promised 30 minutes
from online top up till it's available on ALL readers. Opal buses have a
mobile phone internet connection and regularly 'phone home' data and
collect the pending topups. They had some issues with the scale-up in
the early days, but it's settled down now.

Over recent years Myki has been going the 'mobile data' route and if the
vehicle you first hop on after doing an online top-up as the new 3G data
link, your top up can be collected far sooner than 48hrs.

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> In Perf, we can top up our card from the PC by transferring from your

> bank account to pay for the top up.

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How long before it can be 'collected' on a bus ?

Wellington's Snapper have a phone application that uses the 'NFC' chip
in your phone to put a top up directly onto your card. Only it didn't
work for me because the Snapper App didn't like my Australian debit
card. One of the main 'payment processor' networks in New Zealand
appears to have issues with Australian issued Visa Debit cards.
(Apparently Credit cards are ok, it's the debit cards that break the
system).