Computer hogging all the internet but isn't being used

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ajgaming8064

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So I think my computer is messing up our internet connection. I have TWC as a provider so the internet is pretty slow anyways, but recently the internet just went bad on every device. And I believe my computer may be at fault here because my brother and I tried disconnecting the computer from the modem and the internet was fine again, but when we turn our other devices off and connect the computer back, the internet is once again slow, even though it's the only device connected to the computer. We've checked that the computer has not programs running so that's not the problem. Does anybody know the reason for this? Is it a malware or is there some hidden program or something?
 
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That is higher than a idle machine should be but if it is 200kbits that is not a huge number and should not affect your internet. If it is 200kBytes then that is pretty big. win10 has stupid feature that lets it use your bandwidth to update other peoples machines.

svchost is one of those painful things to find. If you are lucky you might see it on the tcp connection screan so you can tell what it is talking to. Most times it just has tiny amounts of traffic on listening ports. These mostly are used for file sharing between machines inside your house.

If you still think it is a traffic issue and can't find it the method that always works is wireshark. That program will capture every packet sent or received by the machine...
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ajgaming8064

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On my resource monitor it shows svchost.exe is down at about 200kb/s. Would that be the problem or is it usually like that?
 
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bill001g

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That is higher than a idle machine should be but if it is 200kbits that is not a huge number and should not affect your internet. If it is 200kBytes then that is pretty big. win10 has stupid feature that lets it use your bandwidth to update other peoples machines.

svchost is one of those painful things to find. If you are lucky you might see it on the tcp connection screan so you can tell what it is talking to. Most times it just has tiny amounts of traffic on listening ports. These mostly are used for file sharing between machines inside your house.

If you still think it is a traffic issue and can't find it the method that always works is wireshark. That program will capture every packet sent or received by the machine and since you can see all the fields in the packets you can generally tell where the traffic is going. It also is very obvious if you have large amounts of traffic the screen will scroll very rapidly.
 
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ajgaming8064

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Thanks for helping out. I'm not exactly sure what happened, but for some reason svchost somehow dropped to about 50kb/s, and now my internet seems to see fine with all devices connected to it.
 
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