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Originally Posted by bluecube
I phoned ntl tech support and they farted around a bit, but eventually got me to type something into a command prompt like this: netstats -ohm (not 100% on that) to show my open connections, I had about 10 TCP connections open and maybe 25 UDP(?) and the guy on tech support said I shouldn't have more than 4 or 5. Apparently something is using my connection. I ran Spybot and it didn't find anything. So I'm stumped, I don't remember exactly what that command was so I can show that again and I don't know what could be using my connection or making my pings shoot up.
Any help would be appreciated...
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If you want to find out what a command does, type it in with /?
i.e. netstat /? brings up:
<Displays protocol statistics and current TCP/IP network connections.
NETSTAT [-a] [-e] [-n] [-s] [-p proto] [-r] [interval]
-a Displays all connections and listening ports.
-e Displays Ethernet statistics. This may be combined with the -s
option.
-n Displays addresses and port numbers in numerical form.
-p proto Shows connections for the protocol specified by proto; proto
may be TCP or UDP. If used with the -s option to display
per-protocol statistics, proto may be TCP, UDP, or IP.
-r Displays the routing table.
-s Displays per-protocol statistics. By default, statistics are
shown for TCP, UDP and IP; the -p option may be used to specify
a subset of the default.
interval Redisplays selected statistics, pausing interval seconds
between each display. Press CTRL+C to stop redisplaying
statistics. If omitted, netstat will print the current
configuration information once.>
To show your open connections would be netstat -a Well, that's in W2K, anyway - don't know about XP. But if you use the help switch (/?) that'll get you a list of what the command does and what switches you can use with it.