Update Then problem was FireFox. As soon as it loaded it immediately was loading some add-ons that killed the traffic on the IP.
Steve Barnes Manager PCS-WIN RC-WiFi Wireless Internet Service Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved. - Helen Keller -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David E. Smith Sent: Monday, September 28, 2009 4:21 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Macintosh traffic issues? [email protected] wrote: > Someone at one point told me that they seen some versions of Safari that is > doing a lot of heavy preloading and opens up tons of sessions. Safari has a couple wonderful (from the user's point of view) features like that. See attached screenshot. By default, the "Top Sites" page (their name for the fancy homepage shown) is only one click away from anywhere, and you can either use it as a bookmark system, or just let it auto-learn the pages you visit the most (I use the latter because it lets me maximize my laziness). On that screenshot, you'll see that a few of the sites' preview images have little stars in one corner. That means Safari thinks the content of the page has changed significantly since your last visit (if it's a blog or news site, for instance, that probably means new content has been posted). The screenshot was right after I booted my MacBook - I just started it up, opened Safari, and clicked the Top Sites button, and that's it - see how it already has several sites with the star? Safari did in fact preload all twelve of those sites, to check their content. And while Safari is running, I'm pretty sure it also periodically checks those pages again, so that the next time you open a new tab (which defaults to the Top Sites window) you'll know if anything was updated in the last few minutes. From the user's perspective, this is pretty darn nifty. From the bandwidth provider's perspective, maybe not so much. David Smith MVN.net -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
