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Spice300
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join:2006-01-10
| Re: Fictional FAP Usage Since April 17, 2008 17:32:32 MST, the past two days, my FAP meter has not subtracted usage. My meter stopped subtracting around the time that the large 448 MB unexplained subtraction on March 19 was due to be subtracted. It may be payback time for the usage "gift."
The fictional usage spikes have continued for the last month although some nights they are not present.
In the graph:
Delay is 30 minutes
March 19, 2008: FAPperiod = 28.77 days
March 30, 2008: My actual usage (green curve) is flatlined to match the FAP meter's flatline.
April 1, 2008: FAPperiod = 30.81 days
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Value Pack, beam 31, Riverside gateway | |
|  alhanson
join:2006-01-29
Barneveld, WI
| Re: Fictional FAP Usage Spice I don’t think FAP Usage is Fictional. I think it is quite Real. Over a year ago when my FAP began rising at an alarming rate I took a different approach. Instead of trying to monitor Wildblue’s monitoring of my FAP, I went to the source the log file on my computer. The fire wall on my computer logs all the IP address I go to or connect to my computer and bytes send and bytes received.
What I found was the Wildblue proxy server was sending me the same [amount bytes] again and again for six to seven times when I would first click a link to a new IP address. This corresponds to your slow page load. I stop using the Wildblue proxy and my FAP leveled out, and also I got the quicker page load.
I want to confirm and agree with you the Wildblue definitely has got a Bug in there FAP meter.
al | |
| alhanson
join:2006-01-29
Barneveld, WI
| Spice here is my theory on your fictional FAP usage.
• Wildblue began as a small company which out sourced most of all its services e-mail being one of them.
• The out sourced services exist on the out side of the NOC.
• They are connected to the NOC from an internal V LAN WAN tunnel (like a private back door).
• Originally the e-mail came over the Gateway at the NOC being counted only once.
• Then it was sent to the e-mail Server where it was sorted into two bins e-mail and spam.
• When you requested your e-mail it was then sent to you through the V LAN WAN tunnel minus the Spam.
• The spam was totaled up at the end of the period (month) and subtracted from the FAP.
• All cool so far, but I don’t think Wildblue estimated the magnitude of the Spam.
• The WAN tunnel became a bottle neck for the e-mail.
• The out soured e-mail Server began sent the e-mail back thought the gateway to the NOC.
• Now the email was being counted (e-mail + spam) + e-mail
• The spam was being subtracted at the end of its period (month).
• The e-mail need to have it own period (month) so it could be subtracted from it self to come out right on the FAP.
• Of course the calculations would happen at the same time – so your graph would be kind of crazy looking.
• And there is also the problem of where the e-mail Server is sending the Spam the recycle bin on the Server or the recycle bin on your computer.
•Just nasty little thinks virus and worms can do to an e-mail Server.
Al | |
| | Spice300
Premium
join:2006-01-10
| Re: Fictional FAP Usage Alhanson, except my email has always been provided by an NRTC which is out there in Internet land and has no connection to the gateway. I do not use email clients. I only use the webmail provided by my NRTC. Because I receive almost no spam, I have the spam filter virtually turned off. The varying amplitude of the fictional usage spikes in no way corresponds to any spam received by my computer. My FAP meter counts unsolicited Messenger spam directed to ports 1026 and 1027 that my firewall drops.
RitaCeleste, I have never tried Bandwidth Monitor Pro. I only use netstat -e to monitor my actual usage because I only have one computer connected directly to my modem. I do have Windows Firewall set to log failed connection attempts which shows a small amount of unsolicited usage, barely 10 kB / hour, coming to my computer. All of the ARP (Address Resolution Protocol) traffic shown by Bandwidth Monitor could not possibly be counted against your FAP because it would be measured in gigabytes per month making it obvious. I suspect that ARP traffic is counted on your FAP meter only when the packet is addressed to you which is a tiny fraction of the total ARP traffic.
When you use WB's proxy (i.e. install the WB optimizer), most sites you visit on the Internet only see the IP address of the proxy, not your real IP address. If some site snatches the proxy's IP address while you are surfing the Internet and sends spam to it, I suspect the proxy will drop the connection without it ever counting against your FAP meter. If you surf the Internet without the proxy, your real IP address is presented to those sites. Any spammers who use your real IP address would send it directly to your computer making it count against your FAP.
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Value Pack, beam 31, Riverside gateway | |
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