r u using winXP..and a cable internet connection...if yes then ..i think what u're viewing is the Traffic that is goin thru u're node...go to control panel>network and then deselct show icon in Local Area Network and select show icon in network bridge... if not then close window :)) sandeep
Gollum wrote: > how can i know how many bytes have i sent and received. I forgot that packet > size can be variable factor. ya your answer make sense. but how can i know > the the bytes transfered or received > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Sandip Bhattacharya" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 7:53 PM > Subject: [ilugd]: Re: : silly question > > > On 12/12/02 19:48 +0530, Gollum thus spake: > > > i have an internet connection. now when all that i am doing is > downloading. > > > uploading nothing. yet i have > > > > > > 29 thousand something send packets > > > 27 thousand received > > > > > > what does this mean. how could i be sending more data than receiving. > When > > > all i am doing is basically downloading an album over ftp. > > > > > > wierd man > > > > No. Need not be weird. What would be weird is when the byte upload and > > byte download sizes are the same. In TCP, every packet needs to be > > acknowledged from the other side otherwise it would get > > re-transmitted. So what you have might just be normal. > > > > A downloaded packet might be 1024 bytes long while a cknowledgement > > packet might just be 40 bytes long. > > > > - Sandip > > > > -- > > -------------------------------------------------------- > > Sandip Bhattacharya > > sandipb <@> bigfoot.com > > http://www.sandipb.net GPG/PGP: 0x08EB637C > > -------------------------------------------------------- > > > > ================================================ > > To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in > subject header. Check archives at > http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org > > > > > > ================================================ > To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject >header. Check archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org