[HLUG] bandwidth logging

[tom_poole at tiscali.co.uk]

Hi Andreas,
This is probably not the reason for your problem, but may e 
interest to HLUG members.
I work from home and my employer replaced my 
failing HP multifunction printer with a new HP MF1522 earlier in the 
year. I noticed that I was constantly downloading something, and on 
investigation it turned out to be due to the printer driver. The new HP 
drivers contact HP.com as soon as loaded. It keeps telling you to order 
a new toner cartridge. When I contacted IT they were surprised, and 
grateful for the information as they had been wondering where the 
excessive internet traffic on the company system had been coming from.

There was no way to turn this off, so the company firewall was 
reconfigured to block internet access by the offending printer driver, 
and HP was contacted about it.
I think that HP may have released a new 
driver now that alloows this feature to be turned off.

It may be 
worthwhile setting your firewall to block all access and approve on an 
individual basis. Then you will see which programs are trying to get 
access - you'll soon learn what is trying to access the internet 
without your knowledge.  

Regards
Tom

PS I wish I could get your 
speed. My length of BT copper wire is maxed at 500KB.

>----Original 
Message----
>From: andreas at spheniscid.net
>Date: 12/10/2010 21:00 
>To: 
"hlug"<herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk>
>Subj: [HLUG] bandwidth 
logging
>
>Hi there,
>
>since I moved to Shobdon I apparently have a 
problem with the amount of 
>data going over my broadband connection. 
I'm with BT, 10GB included per 
>month. Besides the connection speed is 
fluctuating quite strong betwenn 
>1 and 9 Mbit/sec, up to 48 at times, 
I had one mail from BT claiming I'd 
>used 9 Gig, last month they say 
it was 18 Gig, and for October up to now 7.
>When I was still in 
Kington I never got mails like that, and I 
>definetely never went over 
the 10 Gig. The set up then was virtually the 
>same as now:
>a desktop 
with first Gentoo, then (and now) Kubuntu mainly, rarely Win 
>2000 at 
first, then Win 7;
>a laptop with Win 7 (only used one or two months in 
Kington, though, 
>before that laptop with Win XP);
>and an Iphone.

>Connection speed in Kington was much higher, close to 58Mbit/sec most 
of 
>the time, and usage of the computers hasn't changed.
>On the usage 
side the only suspicions are a) Win7 updates, and b) using 

>get_iplayer to download films/ radio programs from BBC. The problem I 

>got with downloading BBC stuff is, that now I very often need 3 or 4 

>tries till somethings downloaded completely, though get_iplayer 
claims 
>to have downloaded everything, but the actual file size is 
variably 
>(between like 5% to 95% of supposed file size) smaller then 
it should 
>be. It worked fairly well for a few weeks in between, but 
got worse again.
>
>I've just installed bandwidthd as a monitor/ logger 
under kubuntu 
>(there's a win version as well, which will go on the 
laptop tomorrow, 
>probably). The probs I got with bandwidthd are, it's 
starting before 
>wlan0 comes up, and then apparently stops, and it 
seems to delete it's 
>old logs, so I don't get a proper weekly/ 
monthly overview.
>
>What I mainly don't understand is, that with 
broadband speeds of more 
>then 10times of what I got now, I didn't 
manage to get more 10Gig data 
>transfer in Kington, how do I manage 
with basically now different 
>computer/ internet usage do up to twice 
the data transfer?
>
>So, to my questions:
>a) has anybody made similar 
experiences with BT (or any other provider, 
>for that matter)?
>b) how 
do I get bandwidthd to start after the network interface (wlan0)?
>c) 
how do I tell bandwidthd to keep its protocols at shutdown/ restart?
>

>I just see, that over like the last 15min I got TCP traffic of 9.7M. 
How 
>do I figure out where that's coming from?--
>Andreas Ege
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