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My router seems to slow my connection down, so out of frustration I
instead connected my DSL modem directly to my machine.
For some reason I happened to check my connection status and noticed the
numbers for received packets went up very fast. I disconnected and
reconnected then went to a forum I usually visit and the packet numbers
shot up to approx 130,000 for the received packets. I hit over a million
packets in 10 minutes of surfing. I'm not sure what is being received.
Is it port scans?
I have Zone Alarm running on my machine, so I checked the log and saw
that I had a lot of alerts warning me that people were trying to connect
to my machine, but they were all blocked. Unfortunately I cleared my log
so I don't have them anymore (and for some reason it doesn't appear to
be archived). I don't know if this would have an effect? However I don't
see any alerts since I'm now connected via my router. IS this because
people are trying to ping/scan my router and they can't see me behind
the NAT firewall?
When I'm behind my router and hit the same page I get maybe 1-2,000
packets received.
I was wondering why the numbers would be so different.
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yelohk @ yahoo
com
My router seems to slow my connection down, so out of frustration I
instead connected my DSL modem directly to my machine.
For some reason I happened to check my connection status and noticed the
numbers for received packets went up very fast. I disconnected and
reconnected then went to a forum I usually visit and the packet numbers
shot up to approx 130,000 for the received packets. I hit over a million
packets in 10 minutes of surfing. I'm not sure what is being received.
Is it port scans?
I have Zone Alarm running on my machine, so I checked the log and saw
that I had a lot of alerts warning me that people were trying to connect
to my machine, but they were all blocked. Unfortunately I cleared my log
so I don't have them anymore (and for some reason it doesn't appear to
be archived). I don't know if this would have an effect? However I don't
see any alerts since I'm now connected via my router. IS this because
people are trying to ping/scan my router and they can't see me behind
the NAT firewall?
When I'm behind my router and hit the same page I get maybe 1-2,000
packets received.
I was wondering why the numbers would be so different.
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yelohk @ yahoo
com