i wish i could break down the stats hourly, but teksavvy only gives you one number at the end of the day.

how can i log this? i don't know.

i know that all data through the connection should go through the router.

i connected for a few hours this morning and sent a few emails and made a few calls. i might have used 100 mb of bandwidth. max. it was probably closer to 20.

i then turned off the router, but left the modem on. we already know i'm getting bandwidth with the modem off. does it get worse if i leave the modem on, disconnected?

i turned it back on at 17:18, and my router oddly logs packets rather than bytes so i need to make a rough calculation. i just rebooted it at 17:45 to correct the clock for dst, so it's restarted again. but, there were about 30,000 packets over that roughly half hour of basically doing nothing, indicating about 60,000 packets are streaming in when it's idle.

the maximum packet size in tcp/ip is 65K, but i'm transferring over ethernet so whatever packets means, here, is much smaller. i don't know how to ask the router what packet size it's using. it's probably less than 2 K. so, a max calculation would be:

(60,000 p)*(2 kb/p)*(1 mb/1024k) ~ 120 mb/hr when it's idle, or very mild surfing.

120*24 < 3 gb. as can be seen from my stats, that is still a lot for me.

i just reset it again. so, we'll determine what the bandwidth from 18:00-00:00 is, and then start fresh tomorrow.

i'll need to spend the night experimenting with certain things in the image, mostly stopping files from loading and disabling hidden drivers.

there is one way to salvage the situation - maybe the server is a day behind. if that is true, i should expect it to come in at 0 tonight.