Has anyone experience this before? My computer used to send 33000 packets and recieved about 8,000 within some few minutes even though my web browser has not displayed yet.
The other computer which is also connected to the same internet does not send and recieved such a number.
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Jump to PostDo you have any P2P like bittorrent, kazaa or limewire?
Also do you have any IM running like MSN or AIM
Jump to Postit could be a defective nic. my teacher had a nic that when plugged into a network, would flood it completley and shut it down within 10 seconds.
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jbennet
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Do you have any P2P like bittorrent, kazaa or limewire?
Also do you have any IM running like MSN or AIM
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it could be a defective nic. my teacher had a nic that when plugged into a network, would flood it completley and shut it down within 10 seconds.
damson
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Do you have any P2P like bittorrent, kazaa or limewire?
Also do you have any IM running like MSN or AIM[/QUOte
I have non of these.
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a NIC is a network card
P2P means peer to peer file sharing
IM means instant messaging
damson
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it could be a defective nic. my teacher had a nic that when plugged into a network, would flood it completley and shut it down within 10 seconds.
What is nic? I could not understand the terminology
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NIC = Network Interface Card
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a NIC is a network card
P2P means peer to peer file sharing
IM means instant messaging
Thanks. my laptop has on board NIC and wireless and I have yahoo messenger. I equally share some of my files.
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