Excessive bandwidth usage

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  1. bigseb
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    dreamer said:
    In my opinion the best solution is to install comodo free firewall.It has a nice little feature of showing active connections and which program is using how many bytes of data connection.

    Hope this helps
    This sounds interesting. I'll give it a shot. Thanks!
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  3. bigseb
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    I think I found the problem: Thunderbird!!

    Everytime I started Thunderbird my modem starting melting (j/k). Removed my gmail account and now its fine. Who'da thunkit?

    *happy dance*
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  4. dreamer
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    That's a good news bigseb and thanks for reporting back:)
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  6. F5ing
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    Great! I'm interested in knowing what tipped you off that your modem was turning into a heaping blob of plastic and metal! LED's on the modem itself?
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  7. bigseb
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       New #15

    lol... yeah that and the connection kept dropping

    Technology, hey?
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