from here ? > http://forums.cnet.com/7723-6122_102-640618/a-lot-of-outgoing-connections-to-random-ips/?messageId=5674418#message5674418
Better to keep it in one thread so as not to confuse folks...
Digger
So um I just re-installed my system because of no internet connection for me and my ISP told me that my computer is the one that using 90% of the bandwidth. After the help from M.Poriff and others I was able to regain internet connection.
Still with fairly slow speed at 2mbps(normal is 15-20 mbps) , I decided to restore my system completely hoping to resolve to problem. But after 4 hours of restoring, the problem is still there--- extremely slow internet sometimes and Caspa showing over 7000 packets and sometimes 40000 sent/received.
After some research and figuring out, I found out that explorer.exe was using the most bandwidth(I did this by typing netstat -antb into the cmd. So if you guys know why is the user interface and menu(explorer.exe) is using so much bandwidth, please help. Thanks!
Here are the screen shots for Caspa and cmd.
http://postimg.org/gallery/p2iae1xy/6ece2b3f/

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