Spice300
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| reply to alhanson
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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