Today I arrived home to be informed by my sweetie that the Intarwebz were b0rk3d. Downloads had slowed to dialup speeds and had been so for some hours.
After spending some quality time with a Sonic.net tech support lady (whose name I'm embarrassed to say I've forgotten), and checking to ensure the modem wasn't spazzing out, she eventually checked some stats and said my downlink had been throttled because I had been saturating my uplink. Once that issue was addressed, my bandwidth should return.
Looking at the winking lights on the switch, I determined the culprit was my sweetie's desktop machine. She immediately ran a malware scan. I ran 'trafshow' on the gateway to try and find out what she was talking to. The winner was a server named {something}.1e100.net. My sweetie looked it up and found it belongs to Google. I asked, "What else had you done this afternoon?" "Well, I tried to install Google Music, but I don't think it worked."
She then looked in the taskbar, where was running Google Music. Upon restoring the window, we discovered that it was in the process of quietly uploading her entire music collection to Google.
So... Note to Sonic admins and Sonic users: A new uplink hog has arrived on the block, and may clobber your connection. (Better get that fiber laid pronto :-) .)
After spending some quality time with a Sonic.net tech support lady (whose name I'm embarrassed to say I've forgotten), and checking to ensure the modem wasn't spazzing out, she eventually checked some stats and said my downlink had been throttled because I had been saturating my uplink. Once that issue was addressed, my bandwidth should return.
Looking at the winking lights on the switch, I determined the culprit was my sweetie's desktop machine. She immediately ran a malware scan. I ran 'trafshow' on the gateway to try and find out what she was talking to. The winner was a server named {something}.1e100.net. My sweetie looked it up and found it belongs to Google. I asked, "What else had you done this afternoon?" "Well, I tried to install Google Music, but I don't think it worked."
She then looked in the taskbar, where was running Google Music. Upon restoring the window, we discovered that it was in the process of quietly uploading her entire music collection to Google.
So... Note to Sonic admins and Sonic users: A new uplink hog has arrived on the block, and may clobber your connection. (Better get that fiber laid pronto :-) .)