I am receiving way too many bytes.

[panos4508]

I recently noticed packet loss while gaming, I unblocked the games from antivirus and firewall etc...but this hasn't got to do with my gaming experience for now at least. I recently noticed a huge downgrade on my internet speed, youtube videos buffering glitching and stuff, packet loss in video games...So I set up everything I could, I run a scan on my computer with Comodo Antivirus, found NO malware whatsoever, changed my dns, updated my ethernet driver, installed some missing pci drivers (tho not sure if this has got something to do with my situation) and yeah...I have a really old router could it be dropping packets? but I also noticed that I am receiving way too many bytes https://imgur.com/a/MLy8YAc is that even normal? ( I set my internet speed to 10mbps full duplex on purpose ) and also no I'm not downloading anything, no one else is using my internet, I am mostly surfing the net on Microsoft Edge

 

[kanewolf]

Why did you set your network speed to 10Mb Full Duplex? I can't think of any reason that is a good idea. What does your network set itself to when you leave it on auto?

BUT, if you do the math, your 1GB was transferred in 116Min (6860 seconds) which works out to just over 1Mb/s.

You might not be downloading but Windows could be downloading updates or some other software could be downloading updates.

 

[panos4508]

Why did you set your network speed to 10Mb Full Duplex? I can't think of any reason that is a good idea. What does your network set itself to when you leave it on auto?

BUT, if you do the math, your 1GB was transferred in 116Min (6860 seconds) which works out to just over 1Mb/s.

You might not be downloading but Windows could be downloading updates or some other software could be downloading updates.

If I set it to 100mbps trust me it just won't work...Well I set it to 100mbps full duplex. But after I disabled the adapter it still showed as 10mbps...even if I set it to 100mbps is this some kind of glitch?

 

[TJ Hooker]

The received byte count is a running total since the connection was made, which I assume is from when you last booted your PC. If you've had your PC on for a while it's just going to keep running up.

 

[nigelivey]

You never want to set the duplex speed on one side of the connection. both should be set the same, I would strongly advice "Auto"

 

[panos4508]

but 1 billion bytes in just 3 hours on surfing the net?

 

[panos4508]

also I will get a new router soon anyways, but do you guys recommend letting it up and running all the time? the current router I have has been up and running (day and night) for years, no joke and sometimes its overheating.

 

[kanewolf]

also I will get a new router soon anyways, but do you guys recommend letting it up and running all the time? the current router I have has been up and running (day and night) for years, no joke and sometimes its overheating.

If your router is overheating then you DO have a problem. You could add a USB powered fan since most routers have USB ports.

I definitely agree with @nigelively, you should leave your ethernet port on auto. If you are having problems, then your problem may be your cable. That is the most common reason for ethernet problems.

 

[panos4508]

I guess I'll be more careful next time I'll consider getting a fan for my future router my current router is an old model it has no USB ports and I think that my cable is fine since I got last summer (summer 2018) anyways thanks to everybody for replying to my question.

 

[kanewolf]

I guess I'll be more careful next time I'll consider getting a fan for my future router my current router is an old model it has no USB ports and I think that my cable is fine since I got last summer (summer 2018) anyways thanks to everybody for replying to my question.

Your cable from last summer isn't one of those flat cables is it? Those things are JUNK. The wire diameter is too small. You need 22 to 24 AWG. Most of those flat cables are 32 or 34AWG.

 

[panos4508]

It's a gray 26 AWG cable... I checked.

 

[panos4508]

I'm so sure that it is the router I've done speed tests multiple times, my ping is "ok" I'd say my download speed is like 4mbps and upload speed is like 0,39 mbps..now tell me if that's what a router's speed should be like

 

[TJ Hooker]

I'm so sure that it is the router I've done speed tests multiple times, my ping is "ok" I'd say my download speed is like 4mbps and upload speed is like 0,39 mbps..now tell me if that's what a router's speed should be like

What speed to you pay for from your ISP?

 

[panos4508]

I am not sure for what speed I pay my ISP...but I'll consider changing that maybe

 

[panos4508]

I'm just so confused. Today my sent and received bytes seemed balanced now there are more received than sent...again

 

[Corwin65]

More received than sent is normal.

 

[panos4508]

I had millions, received and a very very very few sent...according to my screenshot (check my first post) but now everything has returned to normal.

 

[bill001g]

If it is really concerning you the brute force method that will let you see the data is wireshark. It captures all data going to and from your machine. You can see exactly where the data is coming from. Still it is large amounts of data to look through.

 

[panos4508]

If it is really concerning you the brute force method that will let you see the data is wireshark. It captures all data going to and from your machine. You can see exactly where the data is coming from. Still it is large amounts of data to look through.

I run wireshark, some TCP packets are highlighted in the color black and red is this bad...?

 

[panos4508]

also every day when I watch youtube videos in HD this glitch keeps happening, both on chrome and edge https://imgur.com/a/uuUZhO8 (here I'm just watching a random gameplay video and this occurs so often)

 

[bill001g]

Color means little. What you are looking for is large amounts of traffic coming to your machine when you think you are doing nothing. It will be almost impossible to get much useful data from wireshark when you are actively using something like video. There are ways to filter the wireshark captures but it takes some study.

I was under the impression you though something was using your bandwidth that you did not know about. If it is just youtube is using more data than you expected then that will be tough to figure out if it actually is or not.

 

[panos4508]

I've been watching videos for like an hour and 44 mins, and I have 1 billion packs received.
and I was "gaming" for hours and everything seemed just fine

 

[bill001g]

You can't compare gaming traffic to watching videos. Games traffic uses very little bandwidth compared to video and unlike video it sends almost as much as it receives. The applications are completely different in how they function.

Why would you be concerned you had 1gbyte of traffic for watching video for almost 2 hours. Even fairly low bandwidth video transfers at 500,000 bytes/sec. So in just 1 hour you would transfer 1,800,000,000 bytes of data. If you were watching Netflix 4k video you can easily transfer 10gbytes/hr

 

[panos4508]

You can't compare gaming traffic to watching videos. Games traffic uses very little bandwidth compared to video and unlike video it sends almost as much as it receives. The applications are completely different in how they function.

Why would you be concerned you had 1gbyte of traffic for watching video for almost 2 hours. Even fairly low bandwidth video transfers at 500,000 bytes/sec. So in just 1 hour you would transfer 1,800,000,000 bytes of data. If you were watching Netflix 4k video you can easily transfer 10gbytes/hr

That's what I wanted to hear, thank you