Re: Broadband theft
- From: Marcus Houlden <spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 21 Sep 2005 21:48:19 GMT
On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 21:26:24 +0000 (UTC), Dave <davenpat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote the following to uk.comp.misc:
> I suspect that some one is plugging into my broad band system at home
> and down/up-loading masses of data, thus putting me close to my agreed
> limit.
Assuming you're on BT Openworld, first off, from next month they'll be
increasing usage allowances:
http://www.bt.com/broadband/bb_info.jsp?targetSection=better_value
I'm curious about what makes you think lots of data is being transferred.
Are you getting warning emails from BT about bandwidth use? There are a few
possibilities about what might be causing this if it happening. Checks for
spyware, adware and viruses are a must, and I assume you've already done
these (get Spybot Search & Destroy from
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/ if you don't already have an
anti-spyware app).
Something else to check is what happens to the router when there's nothing
connected. There should be a light on it that shows data coming in from the
remote network. If it's flashing once in a while, this is OK. If it's
constantly flashing or is on constantly, it's getting a *lot* of traffic.
None of the photos I can find online are big enough to see which is which,
but it's probably labelled something like "WAN", "TX/RX" or something
similar. The traffic might not get past the router to your home PCs, but it
stll counts as bandwidth. If someone is trying to do something like a denial
of service attack, this can cause a lot of traffic to the router. Just out
of interest, how quickly do you find your connection works? if something
else is using bandwidth, this will slow everything else down.
mh.
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