Constant Connection

[zak4994]

Heya peoples.

Recently I did a clean install of Vista Home Premium on my sister's laptop.

Installed all the basic software, e.g. Firefox, Adobe Reader, etc.

All was good until today. I was playing CoD4 on my desktop with Panzer and then all of a sudden I was struck with a high ping.

My instincts led me to my sisters on the laptop. I went to them and found out that they weren't using a web browser and they were using Office Word.

I opened up task manager and went to the "Networking" tab and saw that it was constantly raised at 2.5%, with the usual ups and downs.

Then I clicked on the "Processes" tab and went down the list and noticed nothing fishy.

I had closed some processes that were using creating some CPU Usage and hadn't noticed a drop in the "Networking" area.

Any thoughts at what it could be?

It could possibly be a virus but I have Eset v3 on the laptop updated and running.

Thanks!

 

[tinytomlogan]

Vista is a notorious network hog.

 

[Pyr0]

try the resource monitor, it should show you what services/apps are using the connection

 

[zak4994]

try the resource monitor, it should show you what services/apps are using the connection

And I always wonder why you have level 2 reps lol.

More coming you way.

Seems to have calmed down now after I did a restart.

Will reply back if it happens again.

 

[nepas]

IIRC Vista searches for wireless connections every couple of minutes,there is a way to turn it off,but I cant remember how at the moment

 

[zak4994]

IIRC Vista searches for wireless connections every couple of minutes,there is a way to turn it off,but I cant remember how at the moment

I don't think that was the problem.

It was constant.

 

[Rastalovich]

If u have multiple Vista rigs, including an Xbox I think, the media sharing (through networkcfg.exe iirc) reserves anything up to half of ur network bandwidth to accomodate sharing of media. <- without asking u. If u just closedown that process in taskmanager, within moments it'll pop back up.

There are ways to prevent it, and restarting it after it's already set itself up.

There is also a quality setting on Vista's networking that continually preferences connections.

U'll have to google for the info, as it's been a while since I've messed with it.

With it running u 'can' feel like ur using fast ethernet when u have gigabit ethernet.

 

[zak4994]

Thanks for the info Rasta but the problem is over.

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