Konan
09-12-2009, 04:47 PM
Or, just anyone with a familiarity.
I recently installed Hughesnet for my broadband (not my first choice, but the only alternative to 24k dialup). So far it works just fine. I am limited to 200 meg a day, which is far more than I ever use so that is no problem. Except...
A few days ago, my internet session slowed to a crawl. Looking at my stats, I realised that I had been Fapped. That is, my access was limited for 24 hours for going over my download limit. I didn't know why.
The next day, it happened again, but this time I noticed a solid receive signal on my router. I was not surfing or downloaded anything at the time. I don't think I even had Firefox started.
The next day, again, but this time I immediately killed the link at the router and and restarted. Whatever the connection was didn't start up again.
I assumed that something was calling home and trying to download an update, even though I have autoupdates turned off on everything I have loaded that has that option. Since it will download at least 220 meg before being blocked, I can't imagine what update would be so large.
I wrote a script to search the hard drive from top to bottom to give me any file or directory with a create or modify date around the times that I noticed the downloads. I have found nothing except for small stuff like history files for Firefox, etc. However, so far it has only happened when I am using the computer, never during the bulk of the day when it is inactive. That makes me thing that something that I am doing is triggering the activity.
The next time it happens, I want to run a utility to see where the download is coming from. Netstat appears to be an option. Or, does anybody have another suggestion?
Thanks
Konan
I recently installed Hughesnet for my broadband (not my first choice, but the only alternative to 24k dialup). So far it works just fine. I am limited to 200 meg a day, which is far more than I ever use so that is no problem. Except...
A few days ago, my internet session slowed to a crawl. Looking at my stats, I realised that I had been Fapped. That is, my access was limited for 24 hours for going over my download limit. I didn't know why.
The next day, it happened again, but this time I noticed a solid receive signal on my router. I was not surfing or downloaded anything at the time. I don't think I even had Firefox started.
The next day, again, but this time I immediately killed the link at the router and and restarted. Whatever the connection was didn't start up again.
I assumed that something was calling home and trying to download an update, even though I have autoupdates turned off on everything I have loaded that has that option. Since it will download at least 220 meg before being blocked, I can't imagine what update would be so large.
I wrote a script to search the hard drive from top to bottom to give me any file or directory with a create or modify date around the times that I noticed the downloads. I have found nothing except for small stuff like history files for Firefox, etc. However, so far it has only happened when I am using the computer, never during the bulk of the day when it is inactive. That makes me thing that something that I am doing is triggering the activity.
The next time it happens, I want to run a utility to see where the download is coming from. Netstat appears to be an option. Or, does anybody have another suggestion?
Thanks
Konan