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Elohim
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UPS.com taking all my upstream bandwidth!??!

Thu Mar 21, 2019 5:55 pm

Hi guys, I have a weird one for you today.

I ship with UPS and often use their site UPS.com. While on the site, seemingly on any random page, the site all of a sudden seems to suck up ALL of my upstream bandwidth. I only have a 1Mbps upstream link, but still... This is the only website this happens with. It happens regardless of browser, having tried Chrome, Explorer, Edge, and Firefox. It does not happen right away every time, sometimes I have to spend a minute browsing random pages on UPS.com before it happens, but every time it does eventually occur.

This next part is Chrome specific and I have not tested in the other browsers. When on the site in Chrome and this happens, closing the UPS.com Chrome tab has no effect. The bandwidth continues to be taken up. Even closing that Chrome window does not stop it. I have to close ALL Chrome tabs and windows to stop the problem. Stranger still, the Chrome task manager (which you open with SHIFT-ESC) does not show this network usage, even though it stops when I quit Chrome.

So, I was wondering if any of you, you know, having copious amounts of spare time as I am sure you all do, I mean, you are reading this after all, would mind opening up your routers bandwidth monitor and then spending a few minutes browsing UPS.com (go all over for a minute or two) to see if you can duplicate this issue and let me know! And of course, if anyone has an idea of what the issue is, please share!

Remember that you are looking for an upload take up of around 1Mbps at least.

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Re: UPS.com taking all my upstream bandwidth!??!

Thu Mar 21, 2019 5:58 pm

I forgot my video link: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Z9yFH ... m88F4kMRsG

That link gets you a screenshot video of me demonstrating the bandwidth spike. Though I neglected to let the video run long enough to see the drop off after closing Chrome. Also, that video currently says "being processed" by Google Drive, so the only way to view for a short while may be download and watch it. Video was made via OBS studio. Thanks all!
 
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Re: UPS.com taking all my upstream bandwidth!??!

Thu Mar 21, 2019 7:07 pm

I tried it with Net Limiter and didn't notice anything especially unusual.
 
Elohim
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Re: UPS.com taking all my upstream bandwidth!??!

Thu Mar 21, 2019 7:14 pm

Thanks for checking Yan.

I have also now tested this on a separate PC in our household using Chrome with the same results, so it's not just my PC... Though I logged into UPS this time with my account, as I was having trouble getting the result on the outside of the login wall for some reason.
 
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Re: UPS.com taking all my upstream bandwidth!??!

Thu Mar 21, 2019 7:24 pm

That sounds like a clue. Something it only does when logged in.

@Yan - Were you logged in when you checked?
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Re: UPS.com taking all my upstream bandwidth!??!

Thu Mar 21, 2019 7:36 pm

Do you have access to a VPN? What happens if you access it thrpugh a VPN?
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Elohim
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Re: UPS.com taking all my upstream bandwidth!??!

Thu Mar 21, 2019 7:44 pm

just brew it! wrote:
That sounds like a clue. Something it only does when logged in.

@Yan - Were you logged in when you checked?


Well, not quite. I have gotten the effect not logged in as well, just easier to get the effect logged in for whatever strange reason.
 
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Re: UPS.com taking all my upstream bandwidth!??!

Thu Mar 21, 2019 7:46 pm

TheEmrys wrote:
Do you have access to a VPN? What happens if you access it thrpugh a VPN?


I have not done much with VPN over the years... But worth a shot. Is there a free/trial period one that I could use to test that out that you would recommend?
 
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Re: UPS.com taking all my upstream bandwidth!??!

Thu Mar 21, 2019 7:46 pm

just brew it! wrote:
@Yan - Were you logged in when you checked?

No, because I don't have an account. ;-)

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