Hello,

Just leaving a quick message as I'm at COLLEGE at the moment, and have a 15GB limit of internet usage a MONTH. This is all fine, but I'm using a new samsung laptop and over the last few days there SEEMS to have been large leaps of around 300MB at a time on the traffic reports I've been looking at (taken by Net Meter), from SEEMINGLY nothing - I have not downloaded any of this myself. Therefore I assumed it could be some kind of windows updates being download, so I turned off the automatic downloading feature, yet the problem persists.

So therefore I was just wondering if there was a program which can actually tell you which programs are using the internet on your computer (Internet Explorer, iTunes etc.) seperately, and how much they are downloading (and perhaps even a log which states which time a program used the internet).

Thanks
Hmmm... I'm not sure about that but you could download Network spy http://www.sumitbirla.com/software/netspy.php and run it while this peak of traffic is occurring, this will tell you the addresses of all the current connections while it is running and how much data they are sending you or you are sending them. Then look to see which IP address is sending you all this data and make a note of it. Then block this IP from connecting to you.
Just noticed something strange... NetMeter said my daily usage was on 300MB when I put the laptop into standby a moment ago, and I turned it back on, almost straight after, it went up to 700MB, with me not doing anything.

Just tried it again, this time with the internet cable completely unplugged as I put it into standby... I turned it back on, and it was up to 1.01GB!! The internet wasn't even connected! What is going on?Try using a different monitoring program and see if the same occurs. Try BMExtreme http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/BMExtreme-Download-4372.htmlThanks, I'll give it a go. Although I've got a version of BitMeter running as well, and it's telling me the same thing...Okay, well BMExtreme also monitors the IP address that are connecting just click the drop down button and select "IP LIST".
TCPview can monitor all connections.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897437.aspx

quick question though- if your running off the College Internet connection, perhaps NetMeter is showing the entire college's bandwidth?

Obviously it isn't your laptop causing these leaps, since it jumped even when the internet was unplugged.