*ALL* Speed Upgrade Discussion In Here Please (Part 2)

[ian@huth]

All this traffic that some users are saying they get when nothing is running is probably p2p users trying to connect to them for their usual fix of downloads.

[IanGuy]

Lies to be honest. I have no p2p program open, my connection is perfect, Zone alarm reports no activity but the program NetMeter is recording the downstream from the DHCP it seems.

[Ignition]

Originally Posted by tony

incidently I believe ARP is counted as download traffic and continues even when pc is switched off.

Only unicasts and multicasts would be counted, not broadcasts, as I mentioned to you several days and several posts on this issue ago.

Take that as officially as you want, broadcast traffic will absolutely not be counted under any bandwidth allowance.

BTW on a slightly different subject if you have been connected to a P2P network you can get probes from nodes on that network trying to find your client, open or not, days after you've closed the client.

[ian@huth]

Originally Posted by IanGuy

Lies to be honest. I have no p2p program open, my connection is perfect, Zone alarm reports no activity but the program NetMeter is recording the downstream from the DHCP it seems.

You say that you have no p2p program open which suggests that you do use p2p. Is that the case or have you never used p2p? Netmeter will not show you what the traffic is, just how much there is.

Originally Posted by ian@huth

You say that you have no p2p program open which suggests that you do use p2p. Is that the case or have you never used p2p? Netmeter will not show you what the traffic is, just how much there is.

never used p2p and never will use, have no need for it, don't use any of messenger crap either just surf and email.

[IanGuy]

I use p2p, but haven't even had the program open today. Zone alarm states no traffic and there are no processes that would indicate any activity.

[ian@huth]

Originally Posted by IanGuy

I use p2p, but haven't even had the program open today. Zone alarm states no traffic and there are no processes that would indicate any activity.

You don't need to have used p2p today. Depending on what p2p software you use, other users who you have connected with in the past will know your ip addy and come looking for you to see what else you may have that they want.

[OinkyBoinky]

Originally Posted by ian@huth

You don't need to have used p2p today. Depending on what p2p software you use, other users who you have connected with in the past will know your ip addy and come looking for you to see what else you may have that they want.

say u've just been assigned a new IP.. and the preivous user was a heavy p2p user... you could find people trying to connect to ur IP thinking ur the other person... probably more likely with ADSL where most people have dynamic ips tho...

Originally Posted by IanGuy

Well my bandwidth recorder program shows 10kB every 5 seconds being downloaded when not active, zonealarm doesn't show any activity so there is no problem with pc. I say the program is counting the unnecassary download from the DHCP

what program are you using.

[saxo_vtr_paul]

Originally Posted by savman

Just wanted to post a quick note getting this back on the speed rather than cap topic somewhat.

I have the 750K package through a Pace STB and realising I would not be upgraded to 2Mb without an upgrade to the STB I rang CS yesterday. The happily booked me in for a STB swap for the 10th March which was the earliest slot they had. I am in the Leeds area but would suspect these lead times are mirrored throught the country.

So the suggestion is to ring up CS now and book that PACE-> Samsung upgrade if you want 2Mb as soon as it is available.

done, mine is gettin upgraded this saturday

[Matth]

On my monitor, there is a constant background noise of 0.7Kb/s - no connections of any kind, no firewall reports - I just threw a "drop ARP traffic" filter on the interface (my lovely Intel chipset card with "Priority Packet" and it all went - now I must disengage the filter, or there'll be trouble!


And please can we steer back to speed upgrades in this thread, the only reason to mention caps here, is in their relevance to the speed, like "how quick can you burn up 3Gb at 1Mbit, or 30Gb at Mbit instead of 2Mbit, which is all you get for £13 more!

[caveman]

Just wanted to post a quick note getting this back on the speed rather than cap topic somewhat.

I have the 750K package through a Pace STB and realising I would not be upgraded to 2Mb without an upgrade to the STB I rang CS yesterday. The happily booked me in for a STB swap for the 10th March which was the earliest slot they had. I am in the Leeds area but would suspect these lead times are mirrored throught the country.

So the suggestion is to ring up CS now and book that PACE-> Samsung upgrade if you want 2Mb as soon as it is available.

In response to above, I contacted CS. They referred me to Sales who told me no solution to the upgrade had been agreed. There were not enough Samsungs for all the upgrades and they may take the modem route and leave original STB's in situ.
They will contact customers in March and invite them to upgrade and take it from there

[sheridan]

Ntl will be updating there speeds so I understand .300k will be 1meg

but with 3gb monthly usage .

how can i find out how much usage that i have been using on average ,

is there a way .

[punky]

Originally Posted by sheridan

Ntl will be updating there speeds so I understand .300k will be 1meg

but with 3gb monthly usage .

how can i find out how much usage that i have been using on average ,

is there a way .

I use DUMeter, but there are others. Do a search on here for "bandwidth monitor"

[sheridan]

Originally Posted by punky

I use DUMeter, but there are others. Do a search on here for "bandwidth monitor"

thanks for that ..very handy ..