Help with download monitering

Shrimply

Hi guys, I've been using networx for a while now and are on an unlimited service, so don't pay much attention to it.

But its been asking me to update for ages so I just did, checking it, it seems to think I downloaded over 1000GB, last month.

Its all ready shown me downloading over 3GB in the last hour.

I started the think broadband moniter, its been running for around half an hour and shows 6715KB of usage.

What's going on here, is there something up, or is networx just broken, I've tried reinstalling it several times.

Thanks

John_Gray

I've always found NetWorx to be fine, and more reliable than similar products.

Have you got a local LAN and do you copy Stuff from one PC or laptop to another? If so, make sure you have in the NetWorx
Settings, Main tab, tick in box in front of "Ignore local traffic within the LAN" (near the bottom of the window).

Shrimply

I do, but I haven't been, especially not this morning, I turned off my laptop to make sure there wasn't a local connection. And when I do its not movies or anything, just pdfs and ppts.

Its still rising, in the last hour I downloaded 2.83GB and uploaded 454MB, apparently

Total Broadband shows 15.9mb downloaded


Its not like there are multiple connections either, only the Ethernet connection.

Oh wait, it is Local Traffic, but I'm not intentionally sharing anything that can't be good right?

John_Gray

If you've got that much local traffic, you'll need to work out how it's happening!

Shrimply

Never

emm yeah is there anyway that I can find out what's being transferred between which network computers?

Thanks

A.Penny.Saved

You don't use Wireless do you? You mentioned Ethernet.

I use Netmeter on Win XP and it has a small window that shows traffic so I can see if traffic is being transferred on my internet connection. It isn't supposed to work well on some systems, possibly Win 7/Vista.

A software firewall would show what process is accessing the internet and what traffic is being transferred.

Shrimply

Thanks, this computer is a wired connection, but the rest of the laptops on the network connect wirelessly.

And its definitely a local connection, the router stats show that there has only been around 6GB downloaded during the last 5 days.

Its running windows 7.

A.Penny.Saved

Your router's webpage will show the true value and by the sound of it it is backing up what the software monitoring is saying.
You say your laptops are connected wirelessly? How often are they powered on? It might be worth installing some monitoring and firewall on them to check what they are doing. Are the wireless connections secure? Some one isn't hooked in to your connection are they? Downloading a torrent? You could get some legal hassle if someone is downloading on your connection without your knowledge.

6GB in 5 days isn't all that much. Could you have done that?

Shrimply

The 6GBs is fine,

Its the 26GB that have supposedly been received by the computer in the last hour that concerns me.

But under further investigation, when local networks are being monitored anything downloaded or uploaded is dramatically increased by the networx reporter, I can see the recieved files going up by a GB every few seconds if I stream HD content of the BBC website for example.

I don't know if this is a bug though, or if something is configured wrong, or if its something i should be seriously concerned about.

A.Penny.Saved

Check your routers webpage if you want to know how much traffic has been transferred. It should show the total up/down traffic since last router reboot. That is most reliable, if that looks okay then it must be a config problem.

You aren't going to download a GB every few seconds streaming from the BBC website.

Shrimply

Well there's no way i downloaded over 100GB yesterday from the internet, I doubt its even possible. So can anyone tell me what's going on here, I mean I can't actually be receiving this much data, if I was receiving 100GBs a day I think I'd know about it, I mean it needs to go somewhere.

SO if this is a configuration problem, can anyone explain.

Thanks