I'm using ALOT of bandwidth.

Greetings from that desert paradise we all love, Iraq! I am currently deployed, and to make life easier for us, we purchased a satellite internet service. Well, I was talking to our network guy today, and he showed me my share of the bandwidth, its over double anyone else. I don't do much online, Safari is usually open to Facebook and the Aol Instant Messenger is on when I am, so it doesn't seem like I should be using so much of precious internets. Once the chart is displayed, I will "that guy who makes the internet slow for the rest of us" and I want to fix that. What can I do? Do I have a virus? Please help!

Well, you may have to look into the computer to see what applications
or other services in use, installed, or turned on are doing.
The Activity Monitor in the Utilities Folder (see GO in Finder, see item
and open this folder from there) will be able to show you some of the
things going on in the computer, including Network activity; plus you
can see if the use of some applications or utilities (browsers, etc)
and widgets coincide with more Network activity.
You can change some preferences of applications which may be
network hungry to not be looking for the internet; and any browser
you open will automatically try and connect you to some page.
And you can set the browsers to not go online upon opening them.
Widgets looking for content online can consume some bandwidth
as well as processor or system resources. You can turn off some
or all the widgets; and can quit Dashboard entirely if you get and
use the free DashQuit widget.
Music sites, such as they are, will use bandwidth; so will any video
and pages full of still images loading (or large images) will, too.
News feeds with video windows which load and run automatically
are avoidable; the text equivalent do not consume much. RSS
news feeds are good and updated info is fairly fast on those.
The iTunes music player has a 'radio' component, and this can be
a fun way to see what kinds of music is out there, and for sale. It
will run for free, but it will consume bandwidth. Some choices in it
may not work, depending on that you have for internet. In any case,
the Activity Monitor is one of the places to start looking.
Oh, be sure your Firewall is turned on and you are not sharing an
internet connection through your computer to anyone else. It can
act like a repeater to other computers if the settings to do it are on.
Automatic software updates, depending on the frequency of them
and how you have Software Updates set to seek and get them,
may add to the overall bandwidth use. If you have applications
which may be entitled to updates via download, you may be able
to set them to not look online for newer versions automatically.
Some things look online when you start the computer, too.
Instant message services could use more bandwidth than they
appear to; but that'd have to be looked into. Some services
keep trying to connect to you and they may be adding a hidden
level of two-way bandwidth use you do not see up front.
Depending on the computer you have (assuming a portable)
the configuration may vary; so may the setting options.
In any event...
Good luck & happy computing!

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