looks like a constant 20kbits/sec started around 11pm friday and it still going on 6:30am sunday, the hour before that show the normal background chatter.
i still keep getting incoming connections from bittorrent (mandrake 10 beta2 ) though i finished downloading that a few days ago, could this be the reason?
nothing else is coming from my pc's connected to a linksys befsr41, so looks like the router is filtering what ever crud it is.