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Mar 15, 2016

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Unknown internet traffic on my RN102

Hi all, recently I changed my ISP and got a brand new Fritzbox! 7490. In fritzbox I can monitor the overall amount of internet traffic. I found out (by disabling all other network devices) that m...

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Flomer
Mar 16, 2016
Hi kohdee,

thanks for your input. I agree with your explanation. But as you mentioned its a bit too much traffic.

BUT, I found out now what's the problem. The dropbox app causes the traffic (sorry to my RN102). I switched it off yesterday evening and today morning I've seen only 25 MB in the monitor.

Why it draws that traffic, I don't know, because I use it only for my pictures and I do maximum 50 MB a week. Maybee there is some indexing or sync routine in backround which causes this traffic.

Thank you all for your inputs! I see this now as closed case.

Best regards,

Florian

kohdee

NETGEAR Expert

Mar 16, 2016

I'm not specifically sure what would cause your ReadyNAS to consider consuming that much data -- but there are a few tasks that the ReadyNAS runs like firmware update checks (occasionally, including when accessing the UI, updating antivirus definitions, updating the free app collection (which I believe is done daily). I also think there's some ReadyCLOUD discovery server pings here and there but I can't really imagine these tasks consume this nightly, especially if you are not changing files throughout the night with your Dropbox.

The only real way to know what it is is to analyze the traffic, via whichever methods you consider yourself most comfortable with, and find where the traffic is going.
Also, if you've ever enabled SSH and that was exposed to the internet and someone broke into your ReadyNAS, it could have a worm.

Flomer

Tutor

Mar 16, 2016

Hi kohdee,

thanks for your input. I agree with your explanation. But as you mentioned its a bit too much traffic.

BUT, I found out now what's the problem. The dropbox app causes the traffic (sorry to my RN102). I switched it off yesterday evening and today morning I've seen only 25 MB in the monitor.

Why it draws that traffic, I don't know, because I use it only for my pictures and I do maximum 50 MB a week. Maybee there is some indexing or sync routine in backround which causes this traffic.

Thank you all for your inputs! I see this now as closed case.

Best regards,

Florian

JennC
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Mar 16, 2016
Hello Flomer,

You may mark any of the posts that has the resolution to close this topic.

Thanks for sharing and your contribution to the community!

Regards,