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Thread ID: 56524 2005-04-07 14:10:00 Fresh install, weird active internet connection sal (67) Press F1
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342563 2005-04-07 14:10:00 I've just finished up rounding off a fresh install of WinXP Pro (a couple of hours later), and it looks like the internet connection is intermittently active, it slowly blinks on and off. It's kind of annoying and I'm sure it's not usually like that I'm sure.

Here's a screener of active connections (sal.neoburn.net), what could cause the net connection to do this?
sal (67)
342564 2005-04-08 03:09:00 svchost.exe will be talking to MS. zqwerty (97)
342565 2005-04-08 06:32:00 Is there a better way than netstat -a to see all connections? To be honest, I'm not sure if its that plain a deal. I swear the connection was either being used by me actively or not at all. sal (67)
342566 2005-04-08 06:58:00 If you disable netbios and redo netstat, does anything change?

Your firewall (if you have a good one like Kerio) can also tell what connections are alive.
Greg (193)
342567 2005-04-08 12:55:00 Heres an example of what it looks like (sal.neoburn.net). It does that forever, from boot up to shutdown.

How do I disable netbios (and what is it?). I will try installing another firewall :/
sal (67)
342568 2005-04-08 13:23:00 If it is installed you can untick it, it will show up the same place as your TCP/IP settings Rob99 (151)
342569 2005-04-08 13:44:00 Doesn't look like I have it installed (sal.neoburn.net), could it have anything to do with the fact that I bridged instead of ICS? sal (67)
342570 2005-04-08 14:10:00 Go here to get a better program to view who your computer is talking to:

www.sysinternals.com
zqwerty (97)
342571 2005-04-08 14:42:00 How fast is the light blinking?

There will always be a very very small amount activity even if nothing is using it.
Rob99 (151)
342572 2005-04-08 14:45:00 How fast is the light blinking?

There will always be a very very small amount activity even if nothing is using it.
It blinks exactly as displayed in this picture

sal.neoburn.net
sal (67)
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