Dotan Cohen wrote:
I just noticed this info in my modem's interface:
Data Transmitted 1285141280 bytes
Data Received 2111269904 bytes
Could it really be that normal internet browsing and emailing produces
only a 2:1 downloaded:uploaded ratio? I figure with youtube and all
the images on websites that the ratio would be much higher. We do not
do any filesharing or other p2p activities. And the network consists
of two linux machines, so I doubt that there may be a malware
infection. Can anybody shed some insight?
Two things I can think of:
1) Is your modem also your hub/switch? perhaps it is also aggregating
internal network traffic in those numbers somehow?
2) Both numbers are between 30 and 31 bits in magnitude, which means
they might just be the result of some weird overflow or scaling law due
to using a 32-bit counter.
If you can, reset the counters before you go to sleep; if you don't have
a torrent or mule running, counters in the morning should be very low.
Then work for a day and then check your counters again.
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