Re: Continous modem activity

On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 12:22:27 +0100,it is alleged that GrayJay
<grayjaymail-newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxx> spake thusly in
uk.telecom.broadband:

>When Hi folks,
>
>When I'm connected to the net my BT Voyager 2000 Wireless ADSL modem
>is active with the LAN light flashing continuously. This happens
>even though I'm not accessing anything. Zone Alarm shows constant
>activity by "Generic Host Process for Win32 Services." This stops
>when I disconnect from the Internet.
>
>When connecting to the modem wirelessly from a second computer
>(Win98 SE) with the first one (WinXP Pro) switched off this activity
>does not happen.
>
>Can anyone tell me what win32 services means and can (should?) I
>stop it?
>
>
>Thanks for any help.

Any service running on windows XP will show up as "generic (what you
said)<g>". This includes DNS lookups etc.

The number one suspect for _continuous_ bandwidth usage however is the
BITS (Background Intelligent Transfer Service), which seems to be used
to download windows updates etc.

If you do updates manually, you can disable BITS by logging in as an
administrator (usually the 'owner' account) going to start>control
panel>administrative tools (not sure which section it's in, I use
classic view for control panel), services, and find Background
Intelligent Transfer Service, right click it, choose 'properties' and
stop the service. If this solves your problem (IE the extra bandwidth
usage goes away), you can set it to 'manual' start instead of
'automatic'. I have done this both with windows 2000 professional and
XP professional.

HTH

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