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| Thread ID: 41039 | 2003-12-28 04:13:00 | Excessive Jetstream Traffic | TideMan (4279) | Press F1 |
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| 203705 | 2003-12-28 04:13:00 | Hi there We have a little LAN at home running 3 m/c using Win XP and connected thru a router to Jetstream. A couple of times recently, our usage has jumped more than 100 Mb in a night, yet we cannot figure out why. We have Nortons AntiVirus running on all 3 and nothing has been found. Any clues anybody? Is someone getting a hold of our network and using it for their own purposes? If so, how do we stop it? |
TideMan (4279) | ||
| 203706 | 2003-12-28 04:22:00 | You don't mention what type of firewalling you are running, but one thought would be to see if you have auto updating enabled in XP. If all three computers update the same patch it could quite easily make up 100MB of traffic. A thought anyway :) |
Gorela (901) | ||
| 203707 | 2003-12-28 06:22:00 | Oh Yes!!! Auto-updating can really up your download rates. Any program that phones home is a problem so I have Zonealarm set to allow only approved programs to access the net. All others must ask permission first. Cheers Billy *<8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 203708 | 2003-12-28 08:26:00 | It may not be your machines at all. Remember that you are getting done for all traffic that comes to the router. Thus if you have heaps of people looking for open ports on your machine you are getting pinged for the data going back and forth. This is the normal overhead of the internet. You dont say what ISP you are using but I know Paradise you can drill down and see where the traffice is coming from on their usage page. If it is this problem then the only way to stop it is turn off the router when not using it and thus severing the connection to your ISP. |
Big John (551) | ||
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