Local Area Connection Status windows showing ridiculous number of Sent Packets

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Rafael E. Santos

Hi,

I found something weird on my Windows XP machine. When I
double click on my LAN adapter to see the packets send and
received by my computer the number I get for sent packets
is ridiculously high (example: 219,633,267,288). The
number of received packets is usually 3 or 4 digits. And
this is happening after I just restart my machine and just
a few minutes have pass.

Any ideas?

Best Regards
 
K

Ken Wickes [MSFT]

This is likely just a bug in the network card driver. See if the
manufacturer has a newer driver.
 
G

Glenn Streatfeild

Hello,

I think your experiencing the opposite to my own problem.

I believe that you connection status is being displayed
in bytes rather than packets. I'm curently trying to
track down info on how to change this part of the
display, because mine is displayed in packets and I
prefer bytes.

If you hear anything, please feel free to pass it on to
me, and I will do the same for you.

Cheers

Glenn
 
R

Rafael E. Santos

Thanks, your suggestion was correct. I went to windows
update and a new driver was available and it fix the
problem.

Best Regards,

Rafael E. Santos
-----Original Message-----
This is likely just a bug in the network card driver. See if the
manufacturer has a newer driver.

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Ken Wickes [MSFT]
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Rafael E. Santos said:
Hi,

I found something weird on my Windows XP machine. When I
double click on my LAN adapter to see the packets send and
received by my computer the number I get for sent packets
is ridiculously high (example: 219,633,267,288). The
number of received packets is usually 3 or 4 digits. And
this is happening after I just restart my machine and just
a few minutes have pass.

Any ideas?

Best Regards


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The article here is a driver problem. The Intel driver has caused this in most cases I have seen. When this problem occurs switch to the nic driver from windows and the problem will go away.
 

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