billhard Posted June 17, 2012 Report Share Posted June 17, 2012 Dear Sir,I have a ADSL account with a service provider (SP) on an Island. My service is capped at 5GB per month with a hefty overuse surcharge. I occasionally use U-torrent to download video files - no more than once a month. When not in use my computer is always off; U-torrent is never run in the background when not required. My router is generally left on; I think the SP uses a static IP address. Between 1st and 11th May my SP logged over 6 GB of traffic on my account. My activity only accounted for 2GB of this traffic. On investigation, my service provider discovered that multiple sites were continuously "pinging" my router directly - regardless of whether or not my computer was actually on. The service provider is insisting that this is the result of my having used U-torrent in the past. Is this in fact true? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kotekzot Posted June 18, 2012 Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 there's no way to know. the fact that you've used utorrent could've driven a MAFIAA employee to kill a puppy. or to ping your router. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitsoran Posted June 18, 2012 Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 It wouldn't be an attack, not unless someones doing something REALLY stupid.If by sites they meant other peers and by "pinging" they meant connection attempts rather then actual pinging, well, some attempts to connect to you would be made by others but it slows down pretty quickly as people realize you aren't on (I believe the norm is to double the time between every failed attempt, to a point, till giving up completely), it's not really continuous. I can't imagine it using 4 GB of traffic either, even in that time frame (though that may simply be a failure on my part). I'd try to get more information, as well as run wireshark for a while to see how much traffic you get and what kind (I think it can graph it for you).Powering off your ADSL router may also be a viable option. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billhard Posted June 19, 2012 Author Report Share Posted June 19, 2012 Many thanks for this helpful reply. Could you perhaps tell me if peers will still attempt to connect if I am offline, or if U-torrent is not loaded? Also - shouldn't my server's firewall stop this sort of traffic? I have powered down the router (several times) but the problem persisted; I assume a new IP address will sort that out...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kotekzot Posted June 22, 2012 Report Share Posted June 22, 2012 of course they will try to connect, there's no way for them to know that you're unavailable if they don't try. and if your server (whatever that might be) stopped that traffic you wouldn't be able to use torrents. a new ip address would solve the problem of peers constantly trying to connect to your client even though it is offline, but that simply is not the case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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