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Recently I have been experiencing a little tricky internet speed so I have installed an bandwidth monitoring freeware called NetWorx http://www.softperfect.com/products/networx/manual/?lang=English
I Installed the app on Tuesday, July 9, 2013, 7:22:08 PM, so take it as the start point
Avast Internet Bandwidth usage According to NetWorx
Period 9 July 2013 TO 29 July 2013 (21 Days)
Total: 4,28 GB
Download: 4,22 GB
Upload: 55,3 MB
That makes like 200+ MB per day.
http://i44.tinypic.com/2d92rz5.jpg
Period 9 July 2013 TO 1 August 2013 10:40 AM(24 Days, if count today as a full day)
Total: 6,41 GB
Download: 6,32 GB
Upload: 89,6 MB
That makes like 270+ MB per day.
http://i40.tinypic.com/2pypz07.jpg
Is This Normal?
Personally, I don’t think so…
Asyn
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avast! acts as a local proxy, so all traffic runs trough avastsvc.exe, that’s normal.
system
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I wanted to believe it so but I wonder why Chrome and some other applications have far more data usage than Avast.
I mean if Avast is acting as local proxy or such and all the traffic is passing through avast, then it should be more like
Chrome: 10 GB
Firefox: 4 GB
ABCD: 2 GB
GHJKL: 2 GB
Avast: 18 GB
system
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In fact I just forgot to mention that I have configured Nerworx to ignore Local traffic, as is shown in following page:
http://www.softperfect.com/products/networx/manual/options_main.htm
at the bottom of the dialog box screenshot shown at this page, it says Ignore local traffic within the LAN, I have it checked. Hence it doesn’t counts if transfer files within my LAN or I use Windows RDP client etc.
Say, Avast is acting as proxy, I think, all data should be attributed to Avast, since avast is sending/ receiving all the data from internet and my all applications are just using the data from a local proxy, which shouldn’t count.
It is confusing
Asyn
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Sorry, can’t help you with NetWorx. I don’t use it.
For an in depth analysis you could try Wireshark.
system
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Vielen Dank für Ihr Antwort überhaupt.
It seems to me that Avast does act as local proxy server but perhaps when files are larger than a specific size, it let them come/ go directly, I don’t know, I am just saying.
Like for example
- when I watch a video on youtube, it lets the streaming go direct.
- when file is larger than 5 MB*, it lets it go directly
- for certain fiile type, it lets them go directly
- It monitors some specific ports but not all
Having said all that, I want to hear what some geeks says, and yes I am concerned about Avast’s this much data consumption.