BT & Stolen Bandwidth

doodah · 8 Jan 2006 at 15:11

Does BT have a tendancy to steal bandwidth? Downloading using bit tornado, before DL&UL according to DU meter was 95Mb, less than an hour later its 254Mb. The problem is bit tornado has only downloaded 21Mb and uploaded 7mb. Only other thing that has used bandwith is light web browsing and a small video on google video. Any explanations? :confused:

(Reason its annoying is that were only allowed 500mb DL/UL a day

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EDIT - Sorry wrong forum & thanks to don who moved

Andre · 8 Jan 2006 at 17:10

Do you have Skype installed? as this will use other peoples bandwidth for those hidden behind a NAT/PAT router

Skilldibop · 8 Jan 2006 at 17:15

spyware downloaders, internet time, windows update(likely candidate), heavily image based site (like forums) are all things that eat little chunks into your bandwidth.
When you say "Mb" do you mean megabytes or megabits?

doodah · 8 Jan 2006 at 17:16

nope skype isnt installed. same thing has happened on my computer before (this time was on friends) and the common link was always bit torrent running and Mb s of bandwidth disappearing into thin air.

EDIT - megabytes, his windows update isnt on automatic, pretty sure spyware isnt present, and only site he ever goes on is sports forum on here and bbc sport (no audio/video stuff)

benjo plz. · 8 Jan 2006 at 17:18

Your downloading is also dependent on remote clients as well.

use this - http://www.adslguide.org.uk/tools/speedtest.asp to check your current bandwidth. You could also use Netlimiter to see which programs are dialing home.

Skilldibop · 8 Jan 2006 at 17:21

bit torrent co-ordinates downloads over many connections, there's some communication involved here which won't show up on your total download.

derbyjake · 8 Jan 2006 at 20:37

and also if some of the parts of failed the hash check and it needs to redownload them this wont count to the total so could be your answer,

doodah · 14 Jan 2006 at 13:38

WTF. In BT in last <5mins downloaded 3.5mb, DU meter says 50Mb has been downloaded. I think its du meter, there is no way i have downloaded 50Mb in literally a few minutes.

Phil99 · 14 Jan 2006 at 13:59

Get Netlimiter, it'll show you what programs are using how much bandwidth etc.

There should be a free trial around if you google for it.

doodah · 14 Jan 2006 at 14:02

benjo plz. · 14 Jan 2006 at 14:56

You computer isn't connected to a network with other computers on it is it?

xb8browney · 14 Jan 2006 at 15:00

plus net have a delay of 2hours, maybe thats what its like on BT's checker?

doodah · 14 Jan 2006 at 15:33

Its on a uni network. Lol now DL & UP are <1k/sec but DU meter says 5Mb has been DL/UL in same time, at <1k i think not!

Werewolf · 14 Jan 2006 at 17:19

if you're on a uni network, and anyone is uploading/downloading to your drives that will also show up on DU meter (which is annoying at times, as if i move a few gigs across the network i have to remember).

doodah · 14 Jan 2006 at 19:32

Our uni is very strict and dont allow any of that, so network traffic would be next to nothing i presume?

Caged · 14 Jan 2006 at 22:11

So they don't allow transfers around the network, but they allow you to sit on Torrents?