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Hello,
I want to know if the non-logical difference in bytes received and bytes sent is signaling a securty breach.
I controll my wireless connection very tightly; meaning, I only enable wireless when I am goint to use the internet wirlessly. If I am not connected through the internet wirelessly, wireless part of router is disabled.
However, through the router's control panel traffic monitoring interface, I have noticed that the amout of bytes I received vs. the amount of bytes sent doesn't make sense, and I wonder if this discrepancy may actually indicate a security breach of my network.
For example, I watched video through wireless connection for 3 hours. Before I started the wireless connection, the router's control panel traffic monitoring screen showed no bytes sent no bytes received. After the 3 hours, I got ths stats:
Received Bytes 101233736
Sent Bytes 3629425895
This is a huge difference for activity which I think is mostly receiveing data packets, and not sending packets elsewhere.
This difference is more than 2G of data sent out while I was watching video and doing nothing else. How can this be? I get almost 1G of video data, and I sent our 3G of data just watching video?
Could I get some feedback on why is there such a big difference, and whether this is normal traffic acitivty given the circumsances I described (e.g. watching video content, not doing anything else).
Thank you
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Looks normal to me.
From the router much more data is to your PC and much less data is needed to sent from your PC.
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thetick1234,
You are not making sense, and probably you are not paying attention to the information I provide.
You state: "From the router much more data is to your PC [received bytes] and much less data is needed to sent from your PC [sent bytes]" If I understandi it correctly, this means more data is supposed to be coming in, less data is supposed to be going out. THIS IS NOT WHAT IS HAPPENING.
I indicated I have MORE DATA being sent OUT, relative to the data SENT IN while I watch video.
I repeat the stats:
Received Bytes 101233736 ~ 1G
Sent Bytes 3629425895 ~ 3G
This means, more data is going OUT, less data is coming in, while I am strweaming video, not browsing the internet nor uploading data to a site.
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You didn't specify which connection you are reading/
e.g. on my router
the network connection reads High send, i.e, the router to devices in the house.
sent 44632588543 received 1675337637
while my broaband (coax) the receive is high. I.e. the internet
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I am reading the wireless activity from the router's "Traffic Monitoring" screen. Please view the images below:
AFTER I WACTHED VIDEO THROUGH THE WIRELESS. I DID NOT DO ANY OTHER ACTIVITY THAN STREAMING VIDEO.
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Currently can't read your screen
I was reading from the same screen on my Actiontec version F
Remember the router is SENDING to your devices that Receive the packets.
Traffic Monitoring |
Name | Network (Home/Office) | Ethernet | Broadband Connection (Ethernet) | Coax | Broadband Connection (Coax) | Wireless Access Point | WAN PPPoE | WAN PPPoE 2 |
Status | Connected | Connected | Disabled | Connected | Connected | Disabled | Disabled | Disabled |
Network | Network (Home/Office) | Network (Home/Office) | Broadband Connection | Network (Home/Office) | Broadband Connection | Network (Home/Office) | Broadband Connection | Broadband Connection |
Underlying Device | Ethernet Wireless Access Point Coax Coax Stats | Broadband Connection (Ethernet) | Broadband Connection (Coax) | |||||
Connection Type | Bridge | Hardware Ethernet Switch | Ethernet | Coax | Coax | Wireless 802.11n Access Point | PPPoE | PPPoE |
IP Address | 192.168.1.1 | xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx | ||||||
Received Packets | 10328001 | 9109006 | 1218992 | 35061175 | ||||
Sent Packets | 34535600 | 19451466 | 22083384 | 8960077 | ||||
Received Bytes | 1683283321 | 1459093580 | 428311595 | 46279685640 | ||||
Sent Bytes | 44677914576 | 17813668334 | 28297455483 | 1334772265 | ||||
Receive Errors | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Receive Drops | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Time Span | 613:42:39 | 613:42:39 | 613:42:39 | 613:42:39 |