An average of 20KB of bandwidth flowing at any time, even when idle, secondary c

[richardwagner]

At this time I can only conect as a secondary. I use 2 ISPs at home, my cable company, Atlantic Broadband, advertised bandwidth of 5Mbs down, 256 kbps up, which use EchoLabs as its net provider and administrator (it sucks), my connection is restricted here (most of the times my dld/upls start ok, then trickle to zero, usually after 5 MB, once, however, I got what I used, and fom a T3 in the open nap, I was dld at 500KB, then, someone reset the throttling gear at ABB, and the connection got to 4KB, then to zero) Using Dan Elwel broadband test (the bullshit one of my ISP just get one to a non throttled sites and it alawys say the advertised rate), my effective bandwidth is about half the advertised for most servers I ping and dl/up test.

At work, at night, I use COVAD, 1.5 Mbps down/756 kbps Up, from this connection I've been able to provide 160 KBS up, and many happy fellows. My effective bandwidth has been almost par with the advertised bandwidth even though I use via a MIMO Wireless.

I use XP Pro, I Gig RAM from a Mobile Celeron 2.5 Laptop and an esternal drive where I store all my WinMX data. I named my computer FRANCISCO.

My curiosity is that een I am now a secondary, I have a constant badwidth loss of and average of 20KBS (probably around 70 to 80 kbs). Using TCP View I noticed that most of the traffic comes from WinMx connections. Some of the remote addresses cannot be determined via who is.

Can someone explain? Thank you. I'm pasting a page from TCP View.

 WinMX.exe:3080   TCP   francisco.the-beach.net:1056   host144-206-dynamic.17-87-r.retail.telecomitalia.it:8888   ESTABLISHED   
WinMX.exe:3080   TCP   francisco.the-beach.net:1145   p54a7d5a8.dip.t-dialin.net:7777   ESTABLISHED   
WinMX.exe:3080   TCP   francisco.the-beach.net:1197   f9765.f.strato-dslnet.de:54549   ESTABLISHED   
WinMX.exe:3080   TCP   francisco.the-beach.net:1213   ip51cdf44d.speed.planet.nl:3495   ESTABLISHED   
WinMX.exe:3080   TCP   francisco.the-beach.net:1250   84-245-7-105.dsl.cambrium.nl:8888   ESTABLISHED   
WinMX.exe:3080   TCP   francisco.the-beach.net:1252   p5089f4d0.dip.t-dialin.net:7788   ESTABLISHED   
WinMX.exe:3080   TCP   francisco.the-beach.net:1253   62.212.134.192.xsdsl.net:8888   ESTABLISHED   
WinMX.exe:3080   TCP   francisco.the-beach.net:1256   82.94.238.68:8888   ESTABLISHED   
WinMX.exe:3080   TCP   francisco.the-beach.net:1261   cpe000f3d1f7c16-cm0012c922d468.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com:8888   ESTABLISHED   
WinMX.exe:3080   TCP   francisco.the-beach.net:1265   zt186141.ppp.dion.ne.jp:41000   ESTABLISHED   
WinMX.exe:3080   TCP   francisco.the-beach.net:1266   i58-94-111-196.s04.a027.ap.plala.or.jp:3776   ESTABLISHED   
WinMX.exe:3080   TCP   francisco.the-beach.net:1277   host82-181.pool80180.interbusiness.it:8888   ESTABLISHED   
WinMX.exe:3080   TCP   francisco.the-beach.net:1281   pool-71-113-20-19.sttlwa.dsl-w.verizon.net:5678   ESTABLISHED   
WinMX.exe:3080   TCP   francisco.the-beach.net:1285   d207-6-21-219.bchsia.telus.net:18888   ESTABLISHED   
WinMX.exe:3080   TCP   francisco.the-beach.net:1286   213-211-185-163.dyn.babyxl.dsl.telebyte.nl:3456   ESTABLISHED   
WinMX.exe:3080   TCP   francisco.the-beach.net:1289   host-84-220-145-94.cust-adsl.tiscali.it:8888   ESTABLISHED   
WinMX.exe:3080   TCP   francisco.the-beach.net:1290   rrcs-64-183-247-239.sw.biz.rr.com:8888   ESTABLISHED   
WinMX.exe:3080   TCP   francisco.the-beach.net:1296   chello212186103010.12.11.vie.surfer.at:8850   ESTABLISHED   
WinMX.exe:3080   TCP   francisco.the-beach.net:1300   host-84-222-158-133.cust-adsl.tiscali.it:8888   ESTABLISHED   
WinMX.exe:3080   TCP   francisco.the-beach.net:1309   cpe-65-186-91-92.columbus.res.rr.com:3456   ESTABLISHED   
WinMX.exe:3080   TCP   francisco.the-beach.net:1314   88-149-154-113.f5.ngi.it:8888   ESTABLISHED   
WinMX.exe:3080   TCP   francisco.the-beach.net:1319   84-73-136-250.dclient.hispeed.ch:8888   ESTABLISHED   
WinMX.exe:3080   TCP   francisco.the-beach.net:1331   adsl-62-123-193-118.dial.atlanet.it:8888   ESTABLISHED   
WinMX.exe:3080   TCP   francisco.the-beach.net:1338   s01060004ace300c9.ca.shawcable.net:8888   ESTABLISHED   
WinMX.exe:3080   TCP   francisco.the-beach.net:1340   host98-23-static.104-80-b.business.telecomitalia.it:8888   ESTABLISHED   
WinMX.exe:3080   TCP   francisco.the-beach.net:1349   amontpellier-252-1-29-107.w83-197.abo.wanadoo.fr:8888   ESTABLISHED   
WinMX.exe:3080   TCP   francisco.the-beach.net:1382   modemcable124.123-80-70.mc.videotron.ca:8888   ESTABLISHED   
WinMX.exe:3080   TCP   francisco.the-beach.net:1386   p5492f218.dip.t-dialin.net:8888   ESTABLISHED   
WinMX.exe:3080   TCP   francisco.the-beach.net:1432   freelans.xs4all.nl:4567   ESTABLISHED   
WinMX.exe:3080   TCP   francisco.the-beach.net:1473   host192-67-dynamic.59-82-r.retail.telecomitalia.it:8888   ESTABLISHED   
WinMX.exe:3080   TCP   francisco.the-beach.net:1523   62.212.134.192.xsdsl.net:8883   ESTABLISHED   
WinMX.exe:3080   TCP   francisco.the-beach.net:1533   host250-248-dynamic.18-87-r.retail.telecomitalia.it:8888   ESTABLISHED   
WinMX.exe:3080   TCP   francisco.the-beach.net:1537   host100-117-dynamic.59-82-r.retail.telecomitalia.it:8888   ESTABLISHED   
WinMX.exe:3080   TCP   francisco.the-beach.net:1573   boogiedogs.org:8888   ESTABLISHED   
WinMX.exe:3080   TCP   francisco.the-beach.net:1604   node238.140.136.67.1dial.com:7777   ESTABLISHED   
WinMX.exe:3080   TCP   francisco.the-beach.net:1807   host-84-222-136-42.cust-adsl.tiscali.it:30000   ESTABLISHED   
WinMX.exe:3080   TCP   francisco.the-beach.net:1843   adsl-ull-210-42.44-151.net24.it:8888   ESTABLISHED   
WinMX.exe:3080   TCP   francisco.the-beach.net:1955   host134-35-dynamic.57-82-r.retail.telecomitalia.it:8888   ESTABLISHED   
WinMX.exe:3080   TCP   francisco.the-beach.net:2213   81-174-8-50.f5.ngi.it:8888   ESTABLISHED   
WinMX.exe:3080   TCP   francisco.the-beach.net:2247   ip-45-147.sn1.eutelia.it:8888   ESTABLISHED   
WinMX.exe:3080   TCP   francisco.the-beach.net:2286   hkrbb85.kanagawa-ip.dti.ne.jp:8080   ESTABLISHED   
WinMX.exe:3080   TCP   francisco.the-beach.net:2456   cpe-74-71-88-195.twcny.res.rr.com:4444   ESTABLISHED   
WinMX.exe:3080   TCP   francisco.the-beach.net:2483   sd51110bd.adsl.wanadoo.nl:8888   ESTABLISHED   
WinMX.exe:3080   TCP   francisco.the-beach.net:2713   bas12-ottawa23-1088847169.dsl.bell.ca:7575   ESTABLISHED   
WinMX.exe:3080   TCP   francisco.the-beach.net:2857   robin.comtch.com:8888   ESTABLISHED   
WinMX.exe:3080   TCP   francisco.the-beach.net:3254   host164-166-dynamic.14-87-r.retail.telecomitalia.it:8888   ESTABLISHED   
WinMX.exe:3080   TCP   francisco.the-beach.net:3619   s15204286.onlinehome-server.info:8888   ESTABLISHED   
WinMX.exe:3080   TCP   francisco.the-beach.net:3826   static81-223-147-151.xdsl-line.inode.at:6666   ESTABLISHED   
WinMX.exe:3080   TCP   francisco.the-beach.net:4520   host4-180-dynamic.9-87-r.retail.telecomitalia.it:8888   ESTABLISHED   
WinMX.exe:3080   TCP   francisco.the-beach.net:4812   82-69-123-66.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk:3456   ESTABLISHED   
WinMX.exe:3080   UDP   FRANCISCO:1209   *:*      
WinMX.exe:3080   UDP   FRANCISCO:1210   *:*      
WinMX.exe:3080   TCP   francisco.the-beach.net:4190   c-69-141-48-59.hsd1.pa.comcast.net:6665   ESTABLISHED   
WinMX.exe:3080   TCP   francisco.the-beach.net:4203   softbank221026118006.bbtec.net:6699   ESTABLISHED   

[KM]

the large number of connections to port 8888 are opennap connections (8888 is the default port) - connecting that many you should see it use bandwidth for a bit as it uploads the shared files list to every server, but once they all go green it should drop out

of course whilst the connections are open there is a small amount of bandwidth exchanged to keep it alive, but that should barely be noticeable even with that many connections

try disconnecting all of those opennap connections and see if it makes a difference

failing that you can use something like netlimiter to show the bandwidth usage of each TCP connection to see where it is (there are probably other programs just to do that, but the only program i have used that shows it is netlimiter)

if you are merely looking at the number of TCP connections as an indicator of traffic levels - a single download from a web server could max out your connection but would only be 1 TCP connection, whereas thousands of idle TCP connections could use very little bandwidth - so the best measure of what is actually using the bandwidth is something that shows per connection, or per process the actual bandwidth usage rather than connection counts

[richardwagner]

Thank you.

Got the program and is great.

it was that I left the connection attempts to continue.