On Sat, 18 Apr 2009, Rony wrote:
> Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. wrote:
> >
> > Now that I'm keeping a watch, imagine my surprise when both my
> > programs show download activity without a single browser window open and
> > fetchmail having been killed !!
> >
> > How do I find out what is being downloaded ? or what program is the
> > guilty one ?
> >
> >
> Whenever you start the OS, some amount of background internet activity
> takes place due to KDE and Gnome based package update checking
> utilities. However after a few minutes it should stop. you can find out
> active connections by running 'netstat' as admin. Your Triband usage
> session history is available at register.mtnl.net.in . If you have the
> username as telephone...@a then use the alternate link on the same page
> to log in.
>
> You haven't mentioned the usage pattern of your internet. Is it single
> computer and single user or do other systems in your premises connect too?
single user, single computer, hardly any browsing, mainly checking on
medical stuff on medscape, webmd, wikipedia. Some email. Nothing different
from what I've been doing for the last couple of years. In fact I didn't
even know that the download cap had been increased to 600 mb till
almost the end of march.
regards,
Sharukh.
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