Background processes making atuomatic updates/downloads

wickedfritz

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Mar 12, 2014
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About now, I periodically have been having some noticeable connection spikes at a given time of the day, and I decide to run "ping <...> -t" on prompt. What I see is massive fluctuation between packet send/receive times (something around 400/500 ms), even when pinging national servers. This is characteristic, though not necessarily, of connection status while running downloads with no cap on the running download rate.

I check the currently running applications, none making any downloads. Now the necessary info is provided, my question is: on Windows 7, how can I know if any of my backend processes are making any downloads or updates (shceduled or not), and if so, how can I know which one(s) actually is(are) to blame ?
 
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For the first part, open up task manager and go to the networking tab. Check how much throughput you're seeing there.

The second is a bit harder - kill stuff until it stops.

Do other computers on the same connection have the same issue? What type of net connection (DSL, fibre, cable, cellular) do you have? Testing over ethernet or WiFi?
For the first part, open up task manager and go to the networking tab. Check how much throughput you're seeing there.

The second is a bit harder - kill stuff until it stops.

Do other computers on the same connection have the same issue? What type of net connection (DSL, fibre, cable, cellular) do you have? Testing over ethernet or WiFi?
 
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