Re: Reliability of bandwith usage measuring

ts wrote:
Ato_Zee <ato_zee@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

MS$ Service Packs can auto download and take a sizeable
chunk of bandwidth, as can other software like anti virus
updates. MS$ is the main culprit, unless you have some
infection, or software running without your knowledge.
Worth checking with Windoze Task Manager to see
if you can identify all that's
running, Google for anything that you can't account for.

Thanks for your reply. I'm a Mac user, but will check a mate that
occasionally logs onto the net with a PC. Does Windows show a list of
most recently updated software somewhere? (I might have known the answer
if I paid more attention to the updates of my WinPC at work, but that's
not my responsibility . . )

I fond that when my wife leaves her Mac on pointed at a certain weather site that has continuously updating radar maps...the graph shows traffic all night long.

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