I am using:
Firefox 3.0.1
Avast 4.8 Home Edition
Comodo Firewall Pro 2.4.18.4
Window 2k SP4
1.70 gigahertz Intel Celeron
736Mb RAM
Dial-up internet connection
Very often, AshWebSv.exe uses 90-100% of internet traffic as indicated by Comodo Traffic. Firefox then is using <10% and web pages are reduced to a crawl.
What is AshWebSv and can I reduce its bandwith hogging effect?
First I suggest you update firefox now at 3.0.5, there have been a few updates which have closed vulnerabilities.
The http traffic goes through the web shield all firefox requests for pages, etc. go through the web shield proxy so that isn’t too unusual. If the web shield wasn’t running then that traffic would be attributed to firefox.
What are you actually doing at the time ?
Do you have anything running in the background ?
I’m on dial-up and I don’t see this, there is no bandwidth hogging as the traffic is only downloaded once not once for both firefox and again for the web shield.
Your, welcome.
Personally I don’t see the point of a percentage of bandwidth, it really is about as much use as a chocolate ash tray.
Think about it, on dial-up bandwidth is in a word pathetic, so 90% of say 56kbps (max theoretical download speed of a dial-up modem) is nothing at all, but 10% of say 8mbps, now that really is something so which is worse 90% or 10%. I hope you see the point I’m making dial-up will always be working at almost all the available bandwidth just browsing to load pages, start doing anything else and you will really see browsing grind to a halt…
Many web pages are now very media intensive with no consideration for those of us on dial-up, hasn’t everyone got high speed broadband, at least that seems to be the though of the so called web designers.
% bandwidth is the only tool I have. I know when the web pages I look at regularly are running really slow.
But what do you need it for, what purpose does it serve (there are probably better tools depending on what purpose you put it too) ?
Windows provides the connection icon in the system tray expand that (click) it and it shows your connection speed and actual traffic, but it isn’t very helpful either. If you feel that things are running slow I would say this is possibly better as it shows actual Received data and may be more to do with a connection slowdown. There are times when things simply stall (happens occasionally on my system, I just reconnect), at that time it would show close to 100% because there is so little available.
The best effective use I could see is not the % used but the processes using it, so you would see any possible malware with an outbound connection, but how much is actually being used is really immaterial as you on dial-up would want your browser/web shield to be using as much as is available to load pages quickly.
Is this a stand alone application or part of the comodo firewall ?
Connection manager is not very useful, it does not show what is generating the traffic.
It is part of comodo.
No it might not show what is generating the traffic, but it will show you when the connection download upload rate (Sent/Received) is pants. This would artificially bump any reported percentages as 100% of virtually nothing is less than 50-70% of 50kbps, but would appear to be more serious. So I hope you can see why percentages are of very limited use.
It is just a rough tools to show the established connection speed and what is actually coming down the pipe.