how to tell what's hogging bandwidth?

Hey, I was wondering if there was a good freeware that could show you if what all is taking up bandwidth on your computer...

I've asked this on just about every board and never got anywhere with it..

usually my computer downloads (56k) music at right around 4.5 KB/sec; 5 is good, anything under 4 is poor. the only time this has NOT been the case is when Windows Messenger was on in the background and I didn't know it.

the problem is, for the past couple months, it has really started sucking it up. 2.5 KB/sec, etc...and my connection speeds have remained a constant 45.2 kb/s

I've checked for spyware, adware, I've got McAfee anti-virus, and I've tried uninstalling everything I remember installing within the past 5 months..

Is there any freeware that is good and won't crash my system that would show what (if anything) was hogging my system? Programs, etc.

I got leechget and it works great most of the time, but sometimes even it is slow, and I'd like to see what it could do if my normal download speeds were up to par.

Any suggestions, ideas, etc. would be really appreciated, thanks.

 

Given the description, my Guess would be that nothing is Hogging your Internet bandwidth.

Could be deterioration of Tel. lines. Modem getting tired, ISP pumps less into the connection excessive electrical noise etc.

Try to optimize the TCP/IP Stack.

Download DrTCP: DSLreports DrTCP021.exe

Run the program, it will show the current settings of TCP/IP parameters. Write them down.

You can change any variable that you want, click Apply, and reboot the computer, if no good; you can always change to your original values.

Start with:

MaxMTU - DialUp = 576

Tcp Receive - 65392

Window Scaling - Yes

Time Stamping - No

Selective Acks - Yes

Path MTU Discovery - Yes.

Black Hole - NO

Max Duplicate - 2

TTL - 64

 

This is going to show how little I know, but how do I run it?

Plus thanks a lot for the reply. any other cool programs that you would suggest? thx

 

+ there is no max mtu setting for the version I downloaded.. thx

or there is one mtu space, it doesnt say whether its max or internet..

 

I mean, do I click save? I was just nervous to do that with some fields empty.

 

My point is, it does NOT show my current settings, and I dont know how to get it to show them, and dont want to do anything with it until I know what the defaults are.

 

got another program, but thanks for the help

 

so what's the program?.....wobbles