OT: Upsteam data channel rate.

I noticed when browsing this site that a hell of a lot of data
is transmited 'upstream' ie from my computer to the site.

for example at one point up was 282K and down was 935K
a few pages later up was 347K and down was 992K
the differences are 65K 57K

Now I can understand me needing 63K to display a few pages
but I cannot understand why 57K of what should be control
data is being sent back, it seems hugely excessive.
Is it just me? am I being paranoid?

You can view data traffic by clicking the connection icon in
you system tray (two linked terminals) and selecting status.

I looked at another forum and the upstream data was about
half that, but still more than I expected

During normal 'browsing I expect ratios of about 10:1 not
almost 1:1.
I cannot understand why so much data is sent upstream?

But off topic I know.

The fact that pages load for me within seconds means its inconsequential to be honest. Owing to the nature of your post you may not come out of this unscathed ;)

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Originally posted by tricky_colour
But off topic I know.

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http://foot.ie/f28.htm

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Originally posted by petef
The fact that pages load for me within seconds means its inconsequential to be honest. Owing to the nature of your post you may not come out of this unscathed ;)

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I am not bothered by the speed in particular its the volume of
data being sent back to this site, I would like to know why
it so much.
I find it hard to believe that 20K-30K of "control data" is required
to display one page which is in itself only 20K- 30K.

I am just wondering if there is data being sent back to the site
which shouldn't be being sent, I am takjing about spyware and
data collecting stuff.

I will move this to the off topic area if I can, I though that area
would be 'dead' but it gets as many posts as this area.