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

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)

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.

doodah · 14 Jan 2006 at 14:02

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!

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?