Excessive network traffic -

[Scott van Looy]

Today Bob Goodwin did spake thusly:

> Ed Greshko wrote:
>> May I make a simple suggestion as it sounds as if you are fighting a battle
>> that will continue to be fought?  Keep in mind that I forgot the family
>> dynamics in play.
>> 
>> Is your connection to the internet ADSL?  If so, why not just get a second
>> phone line for ADSL only and another ISP account that is dedicated to the
>> twins to use.  Maybe you can get it for a discount as you have one account
>> already and maybe you can get them a lower usage level.  If they use it up,
>> so be it.  You are unaffected.  Your choice as to who pay the freight.
>>
>> 
> The family dynamics are good, everyone is cooperating, the kids I can manage.
>
> ADSL and Cable are not options in this rural area.  It's either the satellite 
> connection or Verizon dial-up.  We suffered with dial-up for several years, 
> we had two lines actually, canceled those and changed to this Wildblue 
> account which works well normally.
>
> I need to find what is driving the usage numbers, they were dropping until 
> about a week ago.  The solution may be to put the boys back on a dial-up or 
> their mother may just leave them without internet?  But that doesn't 
> define/identify the problem.

Run the spyware detection stuff at www.prevx.com on the XP machine, see if 
there's any spyware. Often spyware can be a cause of mystery bandwidth 
stealing



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