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| Thread ID: 68868 | 2006-05-13 10:00:00 | Wireless net eats my broadband allocation | Michael@home (10396) | Press F1 |
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| 454603 | 2006-05-13 10:00:00 | I have a 3-COM Office Connect at home connected to Xtra ADSL. My main machine is connected directly via a network card -- no problems, small broadband usage. But when I use other rmachines and connect wirelessly via the 3COM, my broadband allocation gets eaten up at around a gig per 4 hours... Yes, I have Zone Alarm, Norton AV Corp, and spybot S&D on these other machines, and they have no viruses or bots so far as I can find. I do use Cisco VPN and PC Anywhere on some of the machines, but I get the problem even without these. Win XP right up-to-date. Any ideas on what the problem is, or how I can discover the problem? Thanks -- m |
Michael@home (10396) | ||
| 454604 | 2006-05-13 10:04:00 | Is the network encrypted?? Between all PC's?? If so, what kind of encryption are you using? WEP? WPA? Other? Otherwise, people using wireless nearby can / will use it. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 454605 | 2006-05-13 19:51:00 | I'm using WPA-PSK -- and there's no traffic on my 3COM access point when none of the machines are on, so I don't think I'm being hijacked.. | Michael@home (10396) | ||
| 454606 | 2006-05-14 02:03:00 | what have you got allowed through ZA? | tweak'e (69) | ||
| 454607 | 2006-05-14 04:25:00 | Have you somehow managed matters so that they connect wirelessly to the ADSL modem, out to the Internet, then back in again to the other machine? :D Have they each got "real" IP numbers or do they have 192.168.x.y, or 10.x.y.z numbers? |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 454608 | 2006-05-14 11:02:00 | On ZA, I have ALG, and SVChost, IE, Object:00000007 (what IS that?), liveupdate engine, Remote-control module for PCanywhere, Setup/uninstall, Spybot S&D, Symantec NetDetect, and ZoneLabs Client. None set as server. and 2 (??) Cisco VPN Client which appear to be the same, except one _was_ set as server for trusted and internet zones -- I have now changed this to ASK as I didn't see why I needed that as server -- and I still don't see why I need 2 of these anyway. Think I do? Thanks - m |
Michael@home (10396) | ||
| 454609 | 2006-05-14 11:04:00 | Have you somehow managed matters so that they connect wirelessly to the ADSL modem, out to the Internet, then back in again to the other machine? :D I don't think so, because the problem does occur when the other machine is turned off. Have they each got "real" IP numbers or do they have 192.168.x.y, or 10.x.y.z numbers? **They both have 192.168.x.x IP addresses. Thanks - m |
Michael@home (10396) | ||
| 454610 | 2006-06-02 09:12:00 | I've been away, I've come back, and here's the solution. Symantec Live Update was set to autoupdate, and every 2 minutes or so, it was autoupdating, but evidently the update never "stuck", so it kept on doing it. It was set on "interactive" so each update was 10 mb, apparently each way. Doesn't take much to eat a gig this way if it is left on. I turned it onto manual update, and everything is sweet. Just got to remember to update the AV, and check the Norton Systemworks and PC-Anywhere occasionally. Moral: Watch the traffic, and check that any autoupdate is not cycling. My tech guy tells me that NAV Corp 10.1 can be a problem in this way. Thank you all for trying! -- m |
Michael@home (10396) | ||
| 454611 | 2006-06-02 21:25:00 | The real answer - lose NAV | wotz (335) | ||
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