Continous modem activity

When Hi folks,

When I'm connected to the net my BT Voyager 2000 Wireless ADSL modem
is active with the LAN light flashing continuously. This happens
even though I'm not accessing anything. Zone Alarm shows constant
activity by "Generic Host Process for Win32 Services." This stops
when I disconnect from the Internet.

When connecting to the modem wirelessly from a second computer
(Win98 SE) with the first one (WinXP Pro) switched off this activity
does not happen.

Can anyone tell me what win32 services means and can (should?) I
stop it?


Thanks for any help.

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GrayJay

On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 12:22:27 +0100,it is alleged that GrayJay
<grayjaymail-(E-Mail Removed)> spake thusly in
uk.telecom.broadband:

>When Hi folks,
>
>When I'm connected to the net my BT Voyager 2000 Wireless ADSL modem
>is active with the LAN light flashing continuously. This happens
>even though I'm not accessing anything. Zone Alarm shows constant
>activity by "Generic Host Process for Win32 Services." This stops
>when I disconnect from the Internet.
>
>When connecting to the modem wirelessly from a second computer
>(Win98 SE) with the first one (WinXP Pro) switched off this activity
>does not happen.
>
>Can anyone tell me what win32 services means and can (should?) I
>stop it?
>
>
>Thanks for any help.

Any service running on windows XP will show up as "generic (what you
said)<g>". This includes DNS lookups etc.

The number one suspect for _continuous_ bandwidth usage however is the
BITS (Background Intelligent Transfer Service), which seems to be used
to download windows updates etc.

If you do updates manually, you can disable BITS by logging in as an
administrator (usually the 'owner' account) going to start>control
panel>administrative tools (not sure which section it's in, I use
classic view for control panel), services, and find Background
Intelligent Transfer Service, right click it, choose 'properties' and
stop the service. If this solves your problem (IE the extra bandwidth
usage goes away), you can set it to 'manual' start instead of
'automatic'. I have done this both with windows 2000 professional and
XP professional.

HTH

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Chip <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 12:22:27 +0100,it is alleged that GrayJay
><grayjaymail-(E-Mail Removed)> spake thusly in
>uk.telecom.broadband:
>
>>When Hi folks,
>>
>>When I'm connected to the net my BT Voyager 2000 Wireless ADSL modem
>>is active with the LAN light flashing continuously. This happens
>>even though I'm not accessing anything. Zone Alarm shows constant
>>activity by "Generic Host Process for Win32 Services." This stops
>>when I disconnect from the Internet.
>>
>>When connecting to the modem wirelessly from a second computer
>>(Win98 SE) with the first one (WinXP Pro) switched off this activity
>>does not happen.
>>
>>Can anyone tell me what win32 services means and can (should?) I
>>stop it?
>>
>>
>>Thanks for any help.
>
>Any service running on windows XP will show up as "generic (what you
>said)<g>". This includes DNS lookups etc.
>
>The number one suspect for _continuous_ bandwidth usage however is the
>BITS (Background Intelligent Transfer Service), which seems to be used
>to download windows updates etc.
>
>If you do updates manually, you can disable BITS by logging in as an
>administrator (usually the 'owner' account) going to start>control
>panel>administrative tools (not sure which section it's in, I use
>classic view for control panel), services, and find Background
>Intelligent Transfer Service, right click it, choose 'properties' and
>stop the service. If this solves your problem (IE the extra bandwidth
>usage goes away), you can set it to 'manual' start instead of
>'automatic'. I have done this both with windows 2000 professional and
>XP professional.
>
>HTH

Hi Chip,

Thanks for responding. That setting was already manual, setting it
to disabled has not made any difference. Any other thoughts?

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On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 16:24:06 +0100,it is alleged that Graham Jolliffe
<grayjaymail-(E-Mail Removed)> spake thusly in
uk.telecom.broadband:

<snip>

>>If you do updates manually, you can disable BITS by logging in as an
>>administrator (usually the 'owner' account) going to start>control
>>panel>administrative tools (not sure which section it's in, I use
>>classic view for control panel), services, and find Background
>>Intelligent Transfer Service, right click it, choose 'properties' and
>>stop the service. If this solves your problem (IE the extra bandwidth
>>usage goes away), you can set it to 'manual' start instead of
>>'automatic'. I have done this both with windows 2000 professional and
>>XP professional.
>>
>>HTH
>
>Hi Chip,
>
>Thanks for responding. That setting was already manual, setting it
>to disabled has not made any difference. Any other thoughts?

Only things I can suggest are trying the same re: Automatic Updates
service, Messenger, (which should be disabled on a computer with a
direct internet connection anyway), and Netmeeting Remote desktop
sharing.

Some services are vital to the computer's functioning, some just add
security holes^w.. err extra features <g>. Stopping them one at a
time, then seeing if it stops the internet activity, and if not,
restarting them and moving on to the next one might be an option here.

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average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something
very special.
- Stephen Hawking

Graham Jolliffe wrote:
>
> Hi Chip,
>
> Thanks for responding. That setting was already manual, setting it
> to disabled has not made any difference. Any other thoughts?
>

Get TCPView freeware to see what is running and where its connecting to.

--
Tony

"I did make a mistake once - I thought I'd made a mistake but I hadn't"
Anon

Tony Raven <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Graham Jolliffe wrote:
>>
>> Hi Chip,
>>
>> Thanks for responding. That setting was already manual, setting it
>> to disabled has not made any difference. Any other thoughts?
>>
>
>Get TCPView freeware to see what is running and where its connecting to.

Hi Tony,

Thanks for that, I found TCPView, installed it and it reports
activity as follows:

Process - svchost.exe:944
Protocol - TCP
Local Address - crystal.home 2xxx. (xxx is continuously changing)
Remote Address - voyager.home:2800
State - Established

Note: Crystal is my computer and Voyager is the modem.

Right clicking on the process and selecting "End Process" stops the
activity; connection with the net is still available - Success! But
rebooting brings it back to life again. :-(

Svchost.exe is also shown with other processes e.g.
Svchost.exe:1016, 1120, 2112 which don't cause activity. Is it
possible to disable svchost.exe:944 permanently? I presume it's
there for a reason; if disabled, would it hurt?

Thanks again to Tony and Chip

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Graham Jolliffe wrote:
> Tony Raven <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>
>>Graham Jolliffe wrote:
>>
>>>Hi Chip,
>>>
>>>Thanks for responding. That setting was already manual, setting it
>>>to disabled has not made any difference. Any other thoughts?
>>>
>>
>>Get TCPView freeware to see what is running and where its connecting to.
>
>
> Hi Tony,
>
> Thanks for that, I found TCPView, installed it and it reports
> activity as follows:
>
> Process - svchost.exe:944
> Protocol - TCP
> Local Address - crystal.home 2xxx. (xxx is continuously changing)
> Remote Address - voyager.home:2800
> State - Established
>
> Note: Crystal is my computer and Voyager is the modem.
>
> Right clicking on the process and selecting "End Process" stops the
> activity; connection with the net is still available - Success! But
> rebooting brings it back to life again. :-(
>
> Svchost.exe is also shown with other processes e.g.
> Svchost.exe:1016, 1120, 2112 which don't cause activity. Is it
> possible to disable svchost.exe:944 permanently? I presume it's
> there for a reason; if disabled, would it hurt?
>
> Thanks again to Tony and Chip
>


Go to a command prompt and type CMD <enter> followed by Tasklist /svc
<enter> and it should list the processes driving each instance of
svchost that you can now marry with the TCPView data to track down the
source of the activity. You might find several processes grouped on the
problem one in which case trial and error should tell you which one it
is and whether you mind killing it permanently in the startup.

--
Tony

"I did make a mistake once - I thought I'd made a mistake but I hadn't"
Anon

GrayJay said:

> When Hi folks,
>
> When I'm connected to the net my BT Voyager 2000 Wireless ADSL modem
> is active with the LAN light flashing continuously. This happens
> even though I'm not accessing anything. Zone Alarm shows constant
> activity by "Generic Host Process for Win32 Services." This stops
> when I disconnect from the Internet.
>
> When connecting to the modem wirelessly from a second computer
> (Win98 SE) with the first one (WinXP Pro) switched off this activity
> does not happen.
>
> Can anyone tell me what win32 services means and can (should?) I
> stop it?
>
>
> Thanks for any help.

Have you checked for virus and or spy/malware ?

Worth a check as putting 'svchost.exe:944 TCP' into google.

L.

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Hi everyone,

I've ended up uninstalling and reinstalling Zone Alarm Pro (ver
6.0.631.003); the continuous activity has now stopped! TCPView shows
svchost.exe to be behaving itself.

Why? I've no idea!

Thanks for all the help.

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