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Post by spikes on May 11, 2011 15:18:23 GMT 2
Hi Ronnie Windows always removes something very useful with a new release Go to this website and download the Network Activity Indicator (see links) www.howtogeek.com/howto/7230/get-the-classic-style-network-activity-indicator-back-in-windows-7/Once installed on your system you can monitor how much you are using for as long as the computer is running by just hovering the mouse over the Indicator. Browsing like you do would use very little of your bandwith - but once you start downloading programs and multi-media like videos on YouTube - it flies! Downloading pictures can have an effect but not nearly as much as the multi-media stuff. If you are not downloading or browsing and the indicator is still on it is most likely some application that is updating itself - that can also eat at your bandwith. It would be wise to keep at least your security and Windows updated. Good luck and let us know what's up. Marius Hi Marius Thanks!! Nifty little tool that. Hope you have recharged your flash. It'll be dark by the time you get home
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Post by spikes on May 11, 2011 15:27:54 GMT 2
Hi Ronnie As you can gather, I have installed the network act ind. Opening the latest post from Douw with the pictures of the engine bay took 1.02 Mb. Not much at all. Something else is chewing your bandwidth. Is the Java and Adobe updater's also disabled? S
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Post by jaco1978 on May 11, 2011 20:40:32 GMT 2
Ronnie, I agree with Marius to at least have your Windows and security updates on.
Viruses and the like can also rob you of your bandwidth by either uploading or downloading stuff onto/from your confuzer. Just check, if nothing is updating and your bandwidth is running it might be a virus or Trojan. What Anti-virus do you have?
Also, just thinking about it my Windows (Win7) had a biggish update today on my 3 confusers.
The only other thing I can think of is that your ISP might be robbing you. I have not tried Ari's program (linked in an above post) but it is a good idea to have an independent program to monitor your net usage. Vodacom tried a fast one on me about 2 years ago but I luckily had 2 programs monitoring my net usage. Vodacom ended up swallowing their pride. ;D I have un-capped internet now, so I do not worry about it anymore. ;D
I hope this helps,
Jaco
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Post by ronnie on May 11, 2011 20:57:56 GMT 2
Hi jaco, Marius Spikes.
Thanks for all the help, I have passed it all to Freda as I don`t know very much.
Ronnie
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Post by ronnie on Jun 22, 2011 19:35:57 GMT 2
Hi Spikes How would having auto log on eat into my data as I would be logging on anyway? It just saves me the effort of doing it every time. We have just put in adsl so we will see what happens. We got Vincent to set it up Ronnie
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Post by spikes on Jun 22, 2011 19:49:42 GMT 2
Hi Ronnie Win 7 may be set to clear web history at a set limit. Auto-login will download all those pictures that you normally see as large frames every time the history was cleared.. It should not worry you to much now with ADSL as your cap is most likely>1Gb
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Post by spikes on Jun 22, 2011 19:51:57 GMT 2
PS to above. I only log on if I want to say something or see a particular pic or file added to a post
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Post by ronnie on Apr 29, 2012 19:49:35 GMT 2
Hi All
I was always complaining in SA about the cost of the Internet. I don`t know what the current cost is there but we have now got a contract here with "Talk Talk" 5 pounds (R65) for 40gig a month. This tells me we were well overcharged in SA. Even the car and house insurance is 1/3 of SA.
Ronnie
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Post by Ihar on Apr 29, 2012 19:52:43 GMT 2
One thing I found recently is that Google Chrome was using excessive bandwidth, in the region of 80mb to 100mb an hour when it was sitting idle, so I uninstalled it and I no longer have issues.
Changed my default browser to Firefox.
A useful tool, if you really want to see what you have connections open to. is the netstat utility. You can access it from a command prompt, then type netstat /? and press enter to get a look at everything it can do and run it with the options you need. I normally use -a -b -f -n -o
I prefer to run it as an administrator (elevated), to do that right click on your desktop, select create shortcut, then type cmd where it asks for what to run (location) click next, give it a name and click finish. Now right click on the shortcut you just created and click on Run as Administrator. Once your command window opens type netstat -a -b -f -n -o <enter> It will come back in a second or 2 with a list of all open ports and applications / services that are accessing the internet in the background. Then you need to study the list and see what is actually going on. To see who a particular IP address belongs type, while in the command windows type ping <ip address> <enter>.
To do further analysis, I bring up the task manager and in the Process tab, I set it to display I/O Reads Bytes / I/O Writes Bytes and I/O Other Bytes so I can try and see what the applications and services are actually doing.
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Post by sparky on Apr 29, 2012 22:05:41 GMT 2
jeez and here i thought using 20gig a month is a bietjie min, eish
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Post by ronnie on Apr 29, 2012 23:26:25 GMT 2
Hi Sparky
You can pay 5 pounds a month to download 1000`s of movies so you need at least 40 gig and you may even need 80 gig. When we were looking for houses on the Internet from SA I could easily kill 20 gig a month.
Ronnie
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