>From: "Gareth Elliott" <gareth.e@ihug.co.nz>

>Actually it turns out that when my connection appears to stop
>dead my uploads shoot up to about 120kB and my downloads
>are at 320kB..

This smells of a virus or trojan horse/remote control bot.

Do you have a personal firewall installed and configured correctly?
Have you scanned your system for viruses and trojan horses?
Have you been using peer to peer software (e.g. downloading MP3s) ?

Cheers

BG

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