----- Original Message -----
From: Richard Beddie <richard@health-fitness.co.nz>
To: Brian Gibbons <brian@outersite.co.nz>
Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 12:25 PM
Subject: Re: ADSL Problem - HELP

Brain

Thanks for your tips.

Brian Gibbons wrote:

> >We have recently installed Jet Stream, and after a week of "normal"
> >traffic we have noticed that our connection is now generating around 3
> >meg an hour of traffic for no apparent reason. (i.e. even at night).
>
> The most common causes:
>
> 1. Leaving a browser up on a workstation parked on a page that has "self
> updating" banner advertising.

Cant be that (computers autoclose browses after 30 minutes even if in use)

> 2. Virus/Trojan horse.

COULD be .. but have scanned the network with Virus and trojan scanners.

> 3. Addware. Shareware program that downloads and displays banner
> advertisements, it will do this forever while the program is running.

Not this.

> 4. Napster. Just fire up Napster download an mp3 and walk away. The next
day
> you may find that 200MB of data has traversed your Internet link.
>

Agreed could be, but only my PC has it installed an others cant install any
new
software.

> 5. Mail loops. A misconfigured system can result in a mail message being
> sent to an ISP that arrives back and gets sent back out and dah de dah
this
> will go on until a mail server decides that there have been too many hops.
> The worst scenario is when an oversized message is "Returned" to a sender
> that is redirected to another ISP for whom the returned message is too
big,
> this loop can go on forever.

Checking my ISP for that now.

> Yes, I have seen some scary bills from Telecom.

Well I am scared ! :-)

Richard

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