Hi
Got a bit of a strange occurrence going on and was wondering if anyone could shed any light.
I've got two router/modems, the Voyager 205 I got with the package, and a D-link wireless set-up I got for roaming with my laptop.
I was using the D-link, but it kept being unreliable and I’d lent my Mrs the laptop so I went back to using the 205. I kept noticing on start-up that there was network activity on the Local Area Connection, packets of data being sent and received for no apparent reason. I thought it was just the computer talking to the router or something as the Internet Connection monitor (only shows up with the 205 and not the D-link) wasn’t flashing at the same time, but if I unplugged the phone line, it stopped.
I went back to the D-link to try and stop this, which it did, but then it started playing up again so I went back to the 205 again, and again, the unexplained activity began again.
I did notice recently that after a while, the monitor that pops open to show the Internet Connection closes itself and then straight away, the Local Area Connection stops sending and receiving data?
Weirder still was I restarted tonight, and while the unexplained packet sending/receiving was being done as per usual by the Local Area Connection, I went into Network Connections and switched off the "Show icon in notification area when connected" for the Internet Connection and as soon as I did that, the traffic on the Local Area Connection stopped!
Is my machine possessed?
Got a bit of a strange occurrence going on and was wondering if anyone could shed any light.
I've got two router/modems, the Voyager 205 I got with the package, and a D-link wireless set-up I got for roaming with my laptop.
I was using the D-link, but it kept being unreliable and I’d lent my Mrs the laptop so I went back to using the 205. I kept noticing on start-up that there was network activity on the Local Area Connection, packets of data being sent and received for no apparent reason. I thought it was just the computer talking to the router or something as the Internet Connection monitor (only shows up with the 205 and not the D-link) wasn’t flashing at the same time, but if I unplugged the phone line, it stopped.
I went back to the D-link to try and stop this, which it did, but then it started playing up again so I went back to the 205 again, and again, the unexplained activity began again.
I did notice recently that after a while, the monitor that pops open to show the Internet Connection closes itself and then straight away, the Local Area Connection stops sending and receiving data?
Weirder still was I restarted tonight, and while the unexplained packet sending/receiving was being done as per usual by the Local Area Connection, I went into Network Connections and switched off the "Show icon in notification area when connected" for the Internet Connection and as soon as I did that, the traffic on the Local Area Connection stopped!
Is my machine possessed?
