Constant, excessive, transmission on my "wired" connection

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I have the wierdest problem and I was wondering if anyone else has had a
similar problem and how did they fix it.

I have both a wired and wireless connection to my in-home router (US
Robotics) that I do NOT use at the same time. However, for some reason, when
I connect to my home network via the wired connection, within two minutes, my
laptop has sen over 200 billion packet vs. receiving 30. If I disconnect the
wired connection and use the wireless connection (a US Robitics card),
everything works normally with maybe 20-30 "sends" in the same two minute
period. If I connect the same "wire" to another PC it does NOT tranmit
excessive amounts of traffic like it does on my PC. And I do the latest
virus protectino (Norton AntiVirus) files installed so I don't think its a
virus transmitting these packets.

What I'm really wondering is it a bad setting or is my hardware failing?

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

PC Config:
Sony Viao Laptop, 512MB RAM, 60GB HD, Intel P4 @ 2.4ghz
US Robitics router and wireless card hooked to Verizon DSL
 
On Tue, 30 May 2006 06:17:02 -0700, Tommy Jones <Tommy
I have the wierdest problem and I was wondering if anyone else has had a
similar problem and how did they fix it.

I have both a wired and wireless connection to my in-home router (US
Robotics) that I do NOT use at the same time. However, for some reason, when
I connect to my home network via the wired connection, within two minutes, my
laptop has sen over 200 billion packet vs. receiving 30. If I disconnect the
wired connection and use the wireless connection (a US Robitics card),
everything works normally with maybe 20-30 "sends" in the same two minute
period. If I connect the same "wire" to another PC it does NOT tranmit
excessive amounts of traffic like it does on my PC. And I do the latest
virus protectino (Norton AntiVirus) files installed so I don't think its a
virus transmitting these packets.

What I'm really wondering is it a bad setting or is my hardware failing?

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

PC Config:
Sony Viao Laptop, 512MB RAM, 60GB HD, Intel P4 @ 2.4ghz
US Robitics router and wireless card hooked to Verizon DSL
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Tommy,

Port Explorer (trial version free) will let you identify the program passing the
mysterious packets.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/essential-tools-for-desktop-and.html#DiamondCS>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/essential-tools-for-desktop-and.html#DiamondCS

And if necessary, Process Explorer will tell yo plenty about any discovered
process.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/essential-tools-for-desktop-and.html#ProcessExplorer>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/essential-tools-for-desktop-and.html#ProcessExplorer

Now please note that all malware is NOT viruses, and all malware is NOT detected
by NAV. If in doubt, do a robust malware check.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/dealing-with-malware-adware-spyware.html>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/dealing-with-malware-adware-spyware.html
 
Chuck,

First, thanks for replying to my question.

Secondly, I downloaded Port Explorer like you suggested, but now I'm more
confused than ever. I unplugged the "wired" connection and monitored the
wireless one and saw what I expected -- a few small packets being
constantly sent (probably mostly ACKs & NAKs). However, when I plug in the
cable, the new connection shows my "sent" traffic jumping by 4-5 billion
packets every 5-10 seconds. Yet when I look at Port Explorer, it only shows
400-500 packets being sent during this time period.

A couple of other points that might actually be the clue to the problem
(even if not the fix). I also noticed that when I disconnect my wireless
card and reinsert it, or reboot my machine, both the "sent" and "receive"
counts start over again from 0. However, unplugging the wired connection
does not restart the counts. Rebooting will restart the counts, but the
"sent" will jump to the billions in a matter of less than one minute. Could
it be that the machine is NOT actually sending billions of bytes of info
(like the display suggests), but that the counters are multiplying the number
(e.g., showing bits instead of packets)?? Have you ever heard of such a
problem??

This seems likely to me, although I don't know why it shows up only on the
wired connection and not the wireless one as well. But according to Port
Explorer, "msmsgs.exe" is sending the same number (e.g., 487-608) of bytes
out on both connection every few seconds.

Tommy
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