As some who has wiresharked his shaw traffic I can tell you that you will always have traffic on the shaw side of your router. I think I was 30-50 ARP request per min. when I last looked, plus DHCP request, plus attacks, plus martians, plus what ever I was actually using, so depending on how your router is set up this might not be surprising.
I have no idea about the Mac, other than she might be "using" the internet all the time. Bittorrent, other p2p, or compromised mac take your pick. -- Chris --- On Wed, 9/23/09, Ralph Boland <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Ralph Boland <[email protected]> > Subject: [clug-talk] Flashing green lights seen at night on my router > To: [email protected] > Date: Wednesday, September 23, 2009, 1:21 PM > I am running Ubuntu 9.04. > I have Internet service with Shaw and a wireless router > (Linksyswrt54gv6) that I am directly connected to. > A roomate is connected to the router wirelessly. He > uses windows. :-( > Recently someone moved into the downstairs apartment > and is now also connected wirelessly to the router. > She uses a Mac. > > 2 issues: > > 1) The Internet light on the router is always flashing. > Shouldn't it only be flashing when there is > Internet traffic? > Is there any setting of the router that I can > do to fix this > assuming it is a problem? > > 2) Since the Mac was connected the wireless light is always > flashing. > Before it only flashed when the windows user > was using the wireless. > What do I do so that the wireless list > flashes only when there > is Internet traffic? > I suppose this is really a Mac question but I > wouldn't know how > to fix this problem if she was using Linux > either (if it would be > a problem on Linux that is). > > > Thanks in advance for any advice. > > Ralph Boland > > -- > Quantum theory cannot save us from the > tyranny of a deterministic universe. > But it does give God something to do. > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying > _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
