Posted by *alan* on 04/21/07 15:09

"Don M." <newsreader@nospam4fineartsnospam.com> wrote in message
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> "*alan*" <in_flagrante@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>> 1. The bandwidth graph shows 3 different colors which I assume are
>> referring to 3 different activities or processes. The colors are blue,
>> orange, and a sort of pinkish violet.
>>
>> I am assuming that, on the graph showing my downloads, the blue
>> represents
>> the download itself, but there's an orange sub process continually
>> showing
>> at a much slower rate, and another violet one (also slow-rate) which
>> appears
>> only occasionally.
>> The graph showing what's being uploaded from me has a higher bar of
>> orange
>> with the bare hints of violet and occasional blue at the bottom . . .
>> What processes are represented by these colors?
>>
> ==========
>
> You'll find the legend for the colors under [Settings] -> [Appearnce] ->
> Bandwidth Window.
>
>
>> 2. With no apparent downloader, the bandwidth graph was showing that
>> someone (or something) was downloading from at rates spiking up to 30,000
>> bytes per second and averaging about 17,000 bytes per second. Is this
>> normal? Does it indicate someone downloading from me or does it mean
>> something else? Should I be concerned?
>>
> ------
>
> You were connected as primary. Primaries do a lot more networking than
> just file
> transfers.
>
>
> Don

Thanks very much for your answers. Now I've got a non-paranoid
understanding of what's going on ;-)
--
Alan

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