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Originally Posted by rdhw
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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no p2p or malware but after further investigation using ethereal i find that all the traffic is ARP which apparently comes from local UBR looking for loads of addresses none of which are mine, incidently I believe ARP is counted as download traffic and continues even when pc is switched off.