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Hey Everyone - I am going sailing for a year and have an INMARSAT FB150 which translates to about $8/MB for bandwidth "anywhere" on the ocean. I hope to only use about 50-60MB per month or less through the satellite and take advantage of a long range wifi antennae for the rest. I am planning to use a modified FF browser that goes through a compression proxy (for reducing image quality, removing random ads, etc) as well as compressed text-only email. (If anyone has used one of these or could recommend the best that would be awesome too!)
My computer is a Lenovo Thinkpad X301 and Windows 7
So, my main issue, using a bandwidth monitor and the built in Resource Monitor for Win7, I am noticing that svchost.exe is using about 200kb or MORE to just instantiate the connection. I (as well as my pocketbook) would be eternally grateful if I could find ways to cut that substantially down and get an idea of what I actually could get it down to.
I have turned off all 3rd party services, basically all starting processes that aren't msft, and also removed Access Connections (Lenovos super heavy network manager).
THANKS!
2Perhaps I'm talking out of my a** here but my guts tells me you should really start with throwing out windows. My guess it's more frugal with the bandwidth. – Nifle – 2010-10-04T21:47:57.417
Yeah I'm going to start slowly turning off services and testing each one. I also just tried out WireShark and noticed alot of traffic is router related. Is there any bandwidth monitors that just sniff external traffic? – Justin – 2010-10-04T23:03:36.683
An idea for turning off all but the essentials - boot in safe mode (without networking), get an idea of the bare minimum to run Windows, then disable everything. – Corey – 2010-10-05T00:34:30.960
2I would say a lot of that 200kb being transferred when plugging in an ethernet cable is communication between the router and your computer, not external traffic. – AkkA – 2010-10-05T01:45:02.513
What Akka said - you need the measure of what is actually going out to the Internet, not just what is leaving the computer. Does your router provide any stats on what you've communicated? – DMA57361 – 2010-10-05T08:41:10.120