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Old 22-02-2005, 15:20   #161
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Re: *ALL* Speed Upgrade Discussion In Here Please (Part 2)

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Originally Posted by tony
just run netstat for an hour with machine idle and the only prog that would access the net is autoupdate for avast, as that is up to date there would not be a lot of traffic there, got 2.3mb of traffic in that hour. I have little process running and no spyware etc, disabled icmp in firewall, this is just incoming traffic,constant, average of 700bytes.
Either: your PC has been compromised with some malware (or has P2P running);
Or: your network traffic recording application is incorrectly counting incoming broadcast traffic (e.g. ARPs, DHCP discovery) in its totals.

You should not count ARPs and DHCP broadcasts in your traffic totals if you are trying to emulate or predict an ISP's volume-related capping or charging.
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