I'm using dial-up and there is now constant activity -- lights on and off -- on the connection icon down in the system tray near the time (Windows XP). Listening to VOX in the game, the sound pauses and restarts every few seconds. When looking at the Ping column on the Arena Selection window the ping rate is fairly steady at about 281 then has a momentary jump to 1547 or higher for all arenas.
It started close to doing a Windows Update (manually) but I hate to blame it on Bill. It has been going on for about a week. I suspect something is downloading an update but can not determine what it is. I keep all auto-updates turned off to the best of my knowledge. Spybot, CCleaner, Norton AntiVirus, and Windows Task Manager don’t report anything unusual that I can tell. Using "netstat –b" at the command prompt only shows a single scvhost.exe calling the WS2_32.dll and WINHTTP.dll used (I'm assuming) to maintain the connection. (There is also one TIME_WAIT State listed.)
Is there some other ways to figure out what is pounding on or useing the connection?
MachNix
Hmmm...No way to delete this post?
I just tried "netstat –b 2" so it would refresh every two seconds and I now see a jqs.exe with a CLOSE_WAIT State. It is probably downloading a Java update. Would have liked to delete this post until I could determine if that was causing the problem. Wonder if I have to wait 24 hours before the pounding stops.
