im told by my ISP that my lappy is opening too many background TCP therefore drowning out my browser requests. how do I determ

[leewatkinson]

too many TCP active, watering down my connectivity via browser?

 

[Alabalcho]

Reason one: Your torrent client is opening way too many connections, change settings.
Reason two: You have a virus which tries to infect the world around you, scan your PC for malware.

 

[gbb0330]

open command prompt, and run the following command, you will see exactly how many active connections you have and to what

netstat

 

[jsmithepa]

Wild guess: u gone torrent-crazy. Dude, don't overdose it! 😉

 

[leewatkinson]

Reason one: Your torrent client is opening way too many connections, change settings.
Reason two: You have a virus which tries to infect the world around you, scan your PC for malware.

 

[leewatkinson]

Reason one: Your torrent client is opening way too many connections, change settings.
Reason two: You have a virus which tries to infect the world around you, scan your PC for malware.

 

[leewatkinson]

I haven't gone torrent mad (knowingly) I only use the net for legitimate browsing. my TCP overload is to HP. think it is doing an update automatically? ive set all updates to ask for permission first. however I still have about twenty TCP running that I don't understand. How do I force close them?

 

[gbb0330]

I haven't gone torrent mad (knowingly) I only use the net for legitimate browsing. my TCP overload is to HP. think it is doing an update automatically? ive set all updates to ask for permission first. however I still have about twenty TCP running that I don't understand. How do I force close them?

you have to determine which program is responsible, run the following command

netstat -b

 

[jsmithepa]

I haven't gone torrent mad (knowingly)

Then the news is worse still, you got a BOT in there that's doing who knows what. Ur box is not suppose to be doing anything, you are not downloading anything and yet your wideband modem is blinking mad? Kept good image backups of ur OS? this is the time to restore it. Save data first if you have to.