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| Thread ID: 34582 | 2003-06-17 22:07:00 | Jetstream Usage Overrun | wendle (4033) | Press F1 |
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| 153164 | 2003-06-17 22:07:00 | We are trying to find the cause of a jetstream leakage. We have installed firewalls on all computers (10) and this has helped by only allowing known apps to access the outside world but there is still unexplainable download traffic occuring, sometimes when there is no-one in the office!. Have ruled out radio, automatic updates, etc. Has anyone had a problem like this? | wendle (4033) | ||
| 153165 | 2003-06-17 23:18:00 | If you have an HP multimedia keyboard, then it may be 'phoning home'. Steve Askew is the expert on this and drew PF1 attention to the problem. Two PF1 links on the topic with solutions. here (pressf1.pcworld.co.nz) and also here (pressf1.pcworld.co.nz) |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 153166 | 2003-06-18 00:22:00 | What volume of traffic are you trying to pin down? Bear in mind that you are charged for recieving traffic as well as sending it, therefore it someone on the internet was, for example, pinging you constantly with huge packet sizes you would be charged for them, even if your router was blocking them. The only sure way is to turn off the router/modem. I would try turning it off and see if the traffic still increments. If so then someone has possibly used your login information on another ADSL connection. |
BIFF (1) | ||
| 153167 | 2003-06-18 01:59:00 | One big thing. Are you using telecoms mb useage meter? Thats daft. It told me i was using about 700mb a month. Our ISP told me we were using 200mb a month. 500mg difference? weird. I think the telecom one is a tiny bit off. |
mejobloggs (264) | ||
| 153168 | 2003-06-18 05:24:00 | we are talking about 20-50mb/hour, not every hour, sometimes when no-one is here and when the modem is turned off there is no traffic. This problem is driving me and my tech guy mad.. all jetstream can do is furnish me with usage reports which unfortunately are not as reliable as I would like | wendle (4033) | ||
| 153169 | 2003-06-18 05:47:00 | I have had a similar thing occur a year or two back on an ISDN circuit. It was traced to a network time synch function that was attempting to synch with an internet based server that had gone AWOL. The LAN server was trying repeatedly to fulfil its mission, fully occupying the bandwidth available for blocks of about an hour every hour or so. Took some finding, as it looked like viral activity. However you suggested the activity was download (inward) and not outward? Another company had a similar issue, and that was traced to their server being open and used as a relay for spamming. |
godfather (25) | ||
| 153170 | 2003-06-18 05:56:00 | how would I know if our server was being used to relay spam? and wouldn't the out traffic be as big as the in? | wendle (4033) | ||
| 153171 | 2003-06-18 06:50:00 | Someone could be trying to do a DOS attack on your IP address or trying to hack you. It will show up on your account as all traffic both ways is counted. | Big John (551) | ||
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