Better switch off wifi and go wired.use netstat to monitor connections

On 12/20/08, PJ <pee...@hotpop.com> wrote:
> Parijat Garg <parijatg...@...> writes:
>
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I have an airtel broadband connection. When I was looking through my
>> monthly
>> bill today, I found that there were large downloads (100s of MBs) in my
>> logs; often starting at exactly the same time everyday for many days at a
>> stretch. I am sure I did not generate that traffic.
>
> I wouldn't be so sure. Skype can do that sort of thing. What about automated
> network updates? Responses to pings/scans/other ip traffic?
>
> Try monitoring your network traffic (wireshark, tcpdump etc). Find which of
> your
> packages is the guilty one and then you can make a decision on if you want
> to
> keep it around or do something like remove/throttle it.
>
> PJ
>
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