Strange NETGEAR DG834 Issue

Insanity · 8 Mar 2006 at 00:24

Hey,

I just went and replaced my old modem (speedtouch 530) with a Netgear DG834 modem/router and im having a very odd problem.

For some reason, my connection is constantly active, its constantly uploading and downloading at around 5k. I've done the usual virus scan and spyware scans which didnt come up with anything special, so i went to a dos prompt and typed "netstat" and it listed a bunch of odd connections.

One was some New Zealand motorbike site that i have never even heard of, and the others are from akamaitechnologies.com. And when i say others, i mean like.... 15 of 'em and all on different ports.

Piccy:

What the hell?! :confused:

As i said, spyware and anti virus programs arent showing much (been using; AVG 7, Ad-Aware, Spybot and hijackthis).

The strange thing is, i never had this problem with my old modem, even though it was dieing in a big way, it only started after i installed the new one.

Please help.

sja360 · 8 Mar 2006 at 04:15

got a firewall installed? if you try that it will show which programs are requesting access. from that you can post the list here and hopefully they're be some nasty bugs there which you can remove

Burbleflop · 8 Mar 2006 at 07:00

I don't see anything necessarily wrong with the netstat output you posted. Akami are a content hosting service, companies like Apple use Akami for a lot of their downloads (iTunes for example) because Akami have servers all over the world and work in a way that the files a customer makes available for download are on multiple servers to in theory give redundancy and greater downloads speeds.

As for the motorbike site, netstat will do a reverse DNS lookup on the IP address it sees and give you that result, that doesn't mean the connection was necessarily to the motorcycle site, but to the server that the motorcycle site was running on. It is very common for webservers to host more than one website but because there can only be on PTR record (reverse DNS record) per IP address you may see something in netstat that you're not expecting.

Insanity · 8 Mar 2006 at 08:50

Ok... well im not too fussed about the netstat stuff, but why is my connection constantly active?

Looks like imma have to install zonealarm again, even though i hate it with a passion.

Insanity · 8 Mar 2006 at 09:07

Just installed zonealarm (free version) and it seems to have done the trick.

It didnt prompt me about akamaitechnologies.com making conections to me or whatever, but its no longer showing up in netstat, so its all good yay.