Posts by Carl Lee10

While this thread was still active, someone slid into my DMs. They suggested a tool that lets you see exactly what's going on under the hood of your PC.

Process Explorer from Sysinternals, maybe even an older build if you prefer...

It tracks everything—disk usage, internet traffic, network activity... if you hover over the network tab, you can actually see who's hogging the bandwidth right now.

Solid, detailed little tool. Worth checking out...

Man, why didn't you tell me sooner? Heh. Yeah, I guess I am a bit slow... 🙈

I actually thought about doing something like that—it just baffles me that I didn't catch it earlier. Honestly, my brother was messing around with the router right around the time I noticed something was off—(which I only figured out later once I spotted some random device plugged in)

Anyway, I'm sure this will be useful for someone else down the road...

Thanks, everyone.

Even in Safe Mode, the same thing happens—just constant downloading. I’m reinstalling Windows XP, and even without an antivirus installed, it just starts doing it again...



I took a screenshot right after plugging in the Ethernet. It shows the netmeter I used to spot the traffic in the first place. Even a few hours after a clean install, the download is still running. Speed fluctuates from basically zero to maybe 2 Mbps, rarely hitting anything higher than that.

The OS picks up this network card without me even touching the drivers. I played around with different cards for a bit before switching back to the old one, and at first, it wouldn't recognize it—just showed that yellow exclamation mark saying the connection was limited or couldn't work. Meanwhile, my netmeter was showing active downloads happening anyway.

So, yeah... even while the connection was supposedly blocked, it was still downloading. Makes no sense...

Ran through those three tools... still downloading.

Nope. It’s actually already uninstalled.

Is there any way to see what's actually eating my bandwidth? I'm seeing speeds crawl down to 2kb/s—it's constant, happens the second I get online.

Running Windows XP...
It wasn't doing this before—just started acting up over the last few days...

Thanks for the help...