how would I figure out what's eating up my bandwidth

[cherold]

Recently a problem installing the newest version of Zone Alarm left me
in an odd situation where I couldn't access websites but was still able
to send email, IM, and do pretty much anything else that wasn't
browsing websites. The file sharing program Shareaza also worked.
Shareaza has a bandwidth monitor, and it indicated that the amount of
data I was downloading was perhaps four times what it normally is. And
this was true until I finally found out how to fix Zone Alarm and
reinstall it.

Even if I'm not browsing the web, or IMing, or anything, Shareaza never
downloads with the speed it did when I couldn't access the web. And
this makes me wonder if there are programs just using a lot of
bandwidth through web connections. But how would I figure that out?
Does anyone know?

 

[Guest]

Try R.clicking the task bar,open task mgr,see whats running and how much
resources its useing.

 

[Richard Urban]

That has "what" to do with internet bandwidth and download speed?

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[Richard Urban]

Go to http://www.testmy.net/ and check your download speed.

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Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Quaoar]

Recently a problem installing the newest version of Zone Alarm left me
in an odd situation where I couldn't access websites but was still
able to send email, IM, and do pretty much anything else that wasn't
browsing websites. The file sharing program Shareaza also worked.
Shareaza has a bandwidth monitor, and it indicated that the amount of
data I was downloading was perhaps four times what it normally is.
And this was true until I finally found out how to fix Zone Alarm and
reinstall it.

Even if I'm not browsing the web, or IMing, or anything, Shareaza
never downloads with the speed it did when I couldn't access the web.
And this makes me wonder if there are programs just using a lot of
bandwidth through web connections. But how would I figure that out?
Does anyone know?

If you have cable broadband, your upload and download are not
independent. Let's say you have 4Mbps download maximum and 384Kbps
upload maximum. If you upload at 384Kbps your download will drop to
very small values. The key to maximizing download is to set the upload
maximum to about 75-80% of the max, i.e., 384x0.75 Kbps.

Q

 

[cherold]

Ah, but that's the interesting thing. When Zone Alarm cut off my
ability to access the web, my upload speed increased a little and my
download speed increased a lot.