![]() ![]() The activity started to feel malicious in nature. BITS would simply re-enable itself and then start itself. I even disabled the BITS service, which didn’t help. The BITS service started itself up again. #Netbalancer remove downloadIt’s an easily identifiable service, which can be stopped via the Services applet as shown below:Īs soon as I stopped the BITS service, the download immediately stopped and my bandwidth consumption returned to normal.Īnother day passed and I re-opened NetBalancer and noticed that svchost.exe was consuming bandwidth again. BITS stands for Background Intelligent Transfer Service. Utilizing the BITS service is a common practice for developers to use, which saves them the time from writing their own file transfer service. I suspected that Garmin utilized the BITS service. Now that the culprit was identified, how do I go about stopping it? ![]() Once I opened the application, I could clearly see svchost.exe was consuming a rather large chunk of bandwidth. The NetBalancer desktop application allows you to view each process and how much bandwidth it is consuming. So, I downloaded and installed one of the best network bandwidth usage tools that I have ever come across. I needed more tools at my disposal to determine what was happening. But, 30 GB/day is far too excessive even for the largest of map updates. So, maybe it is downloading a new map for my Garmin device. I have the Garmin Map Updater service installed. It’s basically a CDN (Content Distribution Network) that Garmin utilizes to transfer high volume transactions such as map updates to its user base. I opened Microsoft’s Network Monitor and saw a multitude of requests to a Garmin subdomain caled. So, what in the world is downloading all of this data and why did it start on Wednesday the 19th? But, when I open my daily usage chart, I can clearly see this is no error: Yo u have exceeded 150 GB this billing period We want to remind you that your AT&T High Speed Internet service includes 150 gigabytes (GB) of data for each billing period. It’s one of those e-mails that no one ever wants to receive…ĭear AT&T High Speed Internet Service Customer, ![]()
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