Facebook bandwidth

Dave_C_2

-TangleFoot- wrote: »

Hmm... any Wi-Fi hotspots in the vicinity?

Sadly not, well none that aren't password protected

I'll try your previous suggestion of ad and flash blocking if the agreed time limit doesn't work out. Blocking images is a no-no according to my grandson

Dave

Jamie_Cortez

Dave_C wrote: »

Sadly not, well none that aren't password protected

I'll try your previous suggestion of ad and flash blocking if the agreed time limit doesn't work out. Blocking images is a no-no according to my grandson

Dave

Your grandson is not footing the bill, its not his choice

paddyrg

How about traffic shaping http://www.raymond.cc/blog/restrict-or-limit-internet-download-and-upload-transfer-speed/ or http://geeknizer.com/windows-bandwidth-throttle/ if you don't want to disable video/images/music (seriously the text element of facebook is quite light)

-TangleFoot-

Dave_C wrote: »

I'll try your previous suggestion of ad and flash blocking if the agreed time limit doesn't work out.

Favoured browser? Chrome has what amounts to Flash-blocking built-in:

1. Click on the spanner and select Settings
2. Click + Show advanced settings
3. Click on the button marked Content Settings
4. Under Plug-ins, select Click to play.

Dave_C_2

-TangleFoot- wrote: »

Favoured browser? Chrome has what amounts to Flash-blocking built-in:

Thanks, but I'm using Firefox with Adblock installed and Flashblock available.

Any advantage to using facebook on his iPod touch? Or does it just download the same image but simply display it smaller?

I think that time limiting seems to the best/ simplest compromise. It's only for a few days

Dave

-TangleFoot-

Dave_C wrote: »

Any advantage to using facebook on his iPod touch?

It'll probably download smaller... things. Any dedicated apps for FB available?

Lifeforms

There is for facebook for iphone/itouch. I don't believe the vids or pictures are downloaded at the same file size as on your desktop, but I could be wrong. Might be worth trying that, and leave the computer unused and see if it does make a difference.

Dave_C_2

FYI
After a bit of detective work we solved the problem. No problem with iPhone use or my laptop. Just his netbook.

On the netbook:
Loaded MBAM updated and did a scan - nothing found.
Avira up to date.
Loaded RAS Graph and Stats net monitor and found that it was uploading ridiculous amounts even without IE open.
Control+alt+delete showed Utorrent always was running.
The lad had tried Utorrent downloading a DVD or two and decided it wasn't worth it and gave it up as a bad job - Easier borrowing good DVDs from mates. Didn't uninstall Utorrent and forgot about it. The snag is that it was set to run at startup.:(

Fixed that and bandwidth use is now back to normal or as near normal gets with a teenage kid

Now we will work through the sticky on how to speed up the netbook

Dave

Lifeforms

Ouch! I would hope that he was using something like PeerBlock with it, but I doubt so. Dodgy torrent sites to name a few, along with companies happy to try and "fine" lotta stories etc.

Glad that it's sorted though! As you've got chance, doing the stickies on here is prolly not a bad idea