whats hogging my bandwitdh?

mollser

Was trying to download some stuff, just using a dial up connection.

the little connection properties box shows data being transferred at around the 4k per second usual, but yet the download speed of the program i was downloading was only about 1k or under a second.

How can i find out where all the other data is going - what program is using it, or whats going on?

I've run up to date Norton and Adaware, there doesn't seem to be anything funny there....

red_ice

is it possible that the program you are using is running from a remote server? (stupid as it sounds with 56k)

Otherwise, you may have some processes running in the background

You can try a setting in your modem properties (its been 4 years since ive had 56k so i cant really remember). Theres a setting which is usually set at simthing like 1000, but its ment to be around 5000. I helped someone with tech support with the same problem back in the day - i just cant remember what the setting is and i cant look at it first hand coz im on cable.

Hope you can find what im talkin about - vague as it sounds

zAbbo

start > run > netstat -a

to see whats connecting to what,

Get TCPVIEW for a more advanced netstat, and even NETLIMITER to control it