trodas
11-19-2004, 11:06 AM
I have a small home network, consisting of no more that 8 computers. One W2k SP3 server, one W2k SP3 machine (mine), five WinXP computers and one oldie Win98se one, used as mp3 player box + ICQ by my brother, when come home from college.
The problem is traffic. Using WGR614v1 NetGear router and FS108 NetGear switch behind it, for some, not ping critical, computers.
The problem?
There is still traffic, even when I disabled everything. First thing is, that I disabled response on ping on WAN port of the router - that way, if someone pinging me, it just generate DL traffic, not precious UL traffic - my damn ISP offering only very low UL speeds on modems, currently only 384/96 :mad:
The problem is, that when I stop everything, every applications that can access net, I still got traffic. About 3-4k DL and 200-400bytes UL.
It bother me, because this is simply something beyond my control.
With a very simple test, simply unplugging every machine from power outlet, I find, that for the UL traffic is responsible the Win2k SP3 server machine. Dunno why, but since the OS is clean and there is no spyware (not used for surfing machine) or something other, nasty, software - it must be the windows itself, trying to communicate back to Microsoft, I think.
So, I looking for solution - like banning the server it trying to communicate using hosts file, or banning the port in the router. Anyone have clue, how I get rid of this unwanted traffic? It also looks like that removing the Win2K SP3 machine get me rid of most of the unwanted DL traffic that appears from "nowhere"... ;)
Suggestions, friends, please...? :)
The problem is traffic. Using WGR614v1 NetGear router and FS108 NetGear switch behind it, for some, not ping critical, computers.
The problem?
There is still traffic, even when I disabled everything. First thing is, that I disabled response on ping on WAN port of the router - that way, if someone pinging me, it just generate DL traffic, not precious UL traffic - my damn ISP offering only very low UL speeds on modems, currently only 384/96 :mad:
The problem is, that when I stop everything, every applications that can access net, I still got traffic. About 3-4k DL and 200-400bytes UL.
It bother me, because this is simply something beyond my control.
With a very simple test, simply unplugging every machine from power outlet, I find, that for the UL traffic is responsible the Win2k SP3 server machine. Dunno why, but since the OS is clean and there is no spyware (not used for surfing machine) or something other, nasty, software - it must be the windows itself, trying to communicate back to Microsoft, I think.
So, I looking for solution - like banning the server it trying to communicate using hosts file, or banning the port in the router. Anyone have clue, how I get rid of this unwanted traffic? It also looks like that removing the Win2K SP3 machine get me rid of most of the unwanted DL traffic that appears from "nowhere"... ;)
Suggestions, friends, please...? :)